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Iran Recruits Online Talent For Quick Cyber Strikes (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Iran recruits heavily from online security forums to staff suddenly-launched hacking campaigns, according to new research by Recorded Future. The report comes a day after security experts expressed fears Iran may retaliate against the United States for withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. As a Recorded Future official said yesterday -- albeit without the detail of the report -- if emergency hiring leads Tehran to hire amateurs, they may be less amenable to government control.
Recorded Future based its conclusions on discussions with a well-placed source in the Iranian hacker community and analysis of Iranian security forums. Iran operates a tiered system for cyber attacks, where government employees choose targets and contract private firms, including universities acting as contractors, to do the dirty work.
Recorded Future based its conclusions on discussions with a well-placed source in the Iranian hacker community and analysis of Iranian security forums. Iran operates a tiered system for cyber attacks, where government employees choose targets and contract private firms, including universities acting as contractors, to do the dirty work.
This will be a great excuse to make first strike against Iran, which is what Israel wants. Bad move on Iran's part. They should just count U.S. out and deal with the rest of the World. The U.S. is alienating itself greatly already anyways.
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
The U.S. is alienating itself greatly already anyways.
No, get it straight: The current POTUS and the people he's appointing to cabinet positions are alienating the rest of the world, our allies included. He seems to think that the U.S. can stand alone in the world and survive. He, of course, is completely wrong.
Am I the only one who feels like a certain orange-haired jackass with Tourette's Syndrome is trying to gear us up for open war against Iran?
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I'm no fan of Trump, but honestly it's Iran that's "gearing up" for war with the West.
In case you've failed to notice, Iran is being run by a bunch of bat-shit insane religious zealots...I don't mean your Scientology/Westboro Baptist kind of nuttery, I mean death-cult kind of insane. They believe in the prophecy of the 12th Imam, and that only by bathing the world in blood and fire can the prophecy be fulfilled, and furthermore it's their duty to bring it about as faithful believers. They WILL push the nuke button even when it means they all die if they believe doing so will fulfill the prophecy.
All the US administrations previous have known this but just kicked the can down the road rather than deal with it on their watch. I too worry about Trump being the POTUS when the SHTF regarding Iran, but Trump is hardly to blame here. There are no winning moves here thanks to all those previous opportunities to rein-in Iran that were passed by in the previous decades for political expediency.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
You mean a lot of people who don't know a goddamn thing about the situation and have exactly zero experience with anything involved with it, because that seems to be the reality here.
Pulling out of the deal, otherwise known as breaking the agreement we signed, has already cost Boeing $30 billion in contract with Iranian airlines. How much has it cost other American companies?
And for what? There is still no proof Iran was breaking the terms. And then the asshole POTUS tries to bully German companies into closing up shop in Iran. Guess what, Trump took the US out of the agreement, he doesn't get to dictate what the remaining parties do.
The current POTUS and the people he's appointing to cabinet positions are alienating the rest of the world, our allies included
Except, that doesn't seem to be the case. All our allies seem to be happy with Trump leadership. South Korea is tickled pink with him. Japan seems to be pleased with the way things are working out. Nothing shaking in the Nato court, seems pretty normal there. For better or worse, depending on your point of view, Israel is very happy with Trump.
Mexico is unhappy, but they are always unhappy when the gravy train from the U.S. is threatened. Iran has been unhappy for the last 40 years, nothing new there. Russia and US relation are pretty normal, despite was alarmist are saying. China, we are arguing about trade with them, like we have been for the past 2 decades, nothing new there.
So the world seems to be ticking right along, situation normal.
I don't mind if you bitch about Trump, hell it seems to be a sport now. But if you are going to bitch, bitch abut something that is real and not something that you made up after you read some bullshit blog.
Here are some examples. His attempts to increase coal production. Some of the EPA appointees that seem to be a problem. Or his increased spending in the military. What happened to more is with less?
Bitch away but lets stick to facts.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
What land war has President Trump started? We know that President Obama started a few, screwed others up... But President Trump? Seems to have de-escalated the Korean peninsula, finished off ISIS in Iraq, and actually acted appropriately with regards to Syria.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!