[Dawn] A "bazooka" cyber attack described as the most powerful ever seen has slowed traffic on the Internet, security experts said on Wednesday, raising fresh concerns over online security.
The attacks targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion that may have affected the Internet overall, according to Matthew Prince of the US security firm CloudFlare.
The attacks began last week, according to Spamhaus, after it placed on its blacklist the Dutch-based Web hosting site Cyberbunker, which claimed it was unfairly labeled as a haven for cybercrime and spam.
The origin of the attacks has not yet been identified. But a BBC report said Spamhaus alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia, was behind the attack.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... quoted Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claimed to be a front man for the attackers, as saying that Cyberbunker was retaliating against Spamhaus for "abusing their influence."
But Kamphuis told the Russian news site RT that Cyberbunker was just one of several Web firms involved, protesting what he called Spamhaus's bullying tactics.
"Spamhaus have pissed off a whole lot of people over the past few years by blackmailing ISPs and carriers into disconnecting clients without court orders or legal process whatsoever," he said.
"At this moment, we are not even conducting any attacks... it's now other people attacking them." CloudFlare, which was called for assistance by Spamhaus, said the attackers changed tactics after the first layer of protection was implemented last week.
"Rather than attacking our customers directly, they started going after the network providers CloudFlare uses for bandwidth," Prince said.
"Once the attackers realized they couldn't knock CloudFlare itself offline... they went after our direct peers."
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Must be nice to "bazooka" an asshole, while the rest of us have to don the ol' knee pads and beg to be let off the hook.
Man Assaulted Roommate Who Drew Penis On His Face After He Passed Out Check the mug shot
Meet James Watson.
The 31-year-old Virginia man fell asleep on his couch early Saturday after an evening of heavy drinking. While Watson was incapacitated, one of his roommates retrieved a permanent marker and drew a penis on Watson's face.
When Watson awoke and discovered "male genitalia on his face," he attacked his roommate, leaving the victim with "extensive injuries to his face," according to an Arlington County Police report.
Arrested on a malicious wounding charge, Watson was booked into the county jail, where the above mug shot was taken. An examination of his left cheek reveals that remnants of the impromptu penis remained when Watson posed for his booking photo.
[An Nahar] Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found lying on the bathroom floor at his British home with a ligature around his neck and the same material on a shower rail, an inquest into his death heard on Thursday.
The 67-year-old Kremlin critic was found dead on Saturday in his mansion in Ascot, west of London, sparking frenzied speculation about how he died.
A post-mortem examination found his death was consistent with hanging, but toxicology tests are being carried out and it will be several weeks before the results are known.
At the opening of the inquest in Britain, Detective Inspector Mark Bissell said Berezovsky was found with a "ligature around his neck and a piece of similar material on the shower rail above him".
Although the post-mortem found no evidence of a violent struggle, the detective said the involvement of a third party "cannot be completely eliminated as tests remain outstanding".
Berezovsky's body was found by an employee -- believed to be a bodyguard -- on Saturday afternoon.
Bissell told the inquest that the employee had last seen Berezovsky alive at around 9:00 pm the night before.
The inquest was opened and adjourned. Inquests in Britain are held into all unexplained deaths to establish the facts, but do not apportion blame.
In the family's first public response to the death, Berezovsky's daughter Anastasia Berezovskaya said Wednesday he was not a "typical parent" and described him as an "extraordinary" man.
Berezovsky fled to Britain in 2000 and used his British base to launch verbal attacks on the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin from exile.
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"What is that?". Ligature means a chord which restricts the blood flow to the brain - not a rope which breaks the vertebrae or causes restriction to an airway (choking). The implication in the article is... if the chord attached the curtain rail broke in an apparent hanging attempt death might have been interrupted, however if the chord remained fastened around his neck it had the capacity to kill (in three minutes flat, no suspension bar required)through cerebral hypoxia (brain suffocation).
[Libya Herald] At least one woman travelling with an overland aid convoy heading to Gazoo has been sexually assaulted in Benghazi, during the brief kidnapping of five British nationals.
The incident took place on Tuesday, when two groups from the aid mission, a British-Pak family -- a father with his two daughters -- and another man and a woman, decided to leave the convoy, which was being delayed at the Libyan-Egyptian border, and return to the UK.
The five took a taxi back to Benghazi but were stopped at the Sidi Al-Faraj checkpoint by members of the Libyan regular army. They were then kidnapped and taken to a farm in the Sellouk area, where at least one of the girls was sexually assaulted. Four of the kidnapped Britons managed to escape and found a local cop shoppe. The fifth was later rescued.
It is not clear how many of the three kidnapped women were abused. It has been reported that one was raped. Deputy Prime Minister Awadh al-Barassi said in a statement released on his Facebook page that both daughters had been "brutally raped" in front of their father. "I express my very deep sorrow at what happened," he said.
"This heinous incident does not under any circumstances reflect the genuine generosity and morality of the Libyan people or the traditions of Arab-Islamic culture," Barassi said, "and I demand the authorities to take the necessary action."
The Ministry of the Interior has sent a team to investigate the case. Four Libyan soldiers have already been jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in connection with allegations of abduction and rape and another is wanted. They are understood to be members of the First Infantry Brigade of the Libyan regular army.
The Turkish Consul-General has provided support to the family and it is reported that they are staying in his residence.
The British Ambassador in Libya, Michael Arun, told the Libya Herald this evening, Thursday, that it had been "in very close contact with the Libyan authorities ever since this tragic incident was discovered." He said the embassy was "particularly grateful" to the Turkish Consul-General in Benghazi for the help he had provided.
The aid convoy, named Marmara 2, had been held at the Libyan-Egyptian border for over a week, having travelled from Europe through Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya without visas. It is believed that, although the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was prepared to let them in, the Egyptian border guards refused them entry.
When travellers in the convoy started running out of money and food, the five British nationals decided to leave and return to the UK.
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Two if by sea, one if by land. This is the outcome after the first convoy was stopped at sea by the Israeli navy -- the time they killed the IHH terrorists -- the second was stopped by lawfare and a bit of judicious rudder damage of various ships in docks in Europe. Now the third one has resulted in the vicious rapine of foolish daughters in front of criminally foolish parents. Hopefully a useful lesson will be learnt.
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"This heinous incident does not under any circumstances reflect the genuine generosity and morality of the Libyan people or the traditions of Arab-Islamic culture,"
Yes, the famous Barbary hospitality. Perhaps he is right, back in the day dad would have been flayed, crucified, beheaded, and floated in the harbor and the daughters enslaved and sent to detroit.
[MAGHAREBIA] Young Algerian women determined to replace the hijab and niqab staged a rally in Algiers.
"We want to sweep away these clothes which come from Saudi Arabia -- black, sad and stifling under the sun -- to return to our traditional haik, which is the pride of Algerian women," one participant told AFP at the March 21st rally.
The haik appears to be a long length of white cloth that eventually wraps the torso, the body, the head, and the entire walking bundle with more swathings of fabric, hinting in the end that somewhere inside a female must be peering out, though the person in question cannot be seen. The Saudi veil, while black and sad, is a good deal more efficient and conducive to mobility, as far as I can tell, though one couldn't use it afterward as a tent to shelter the entire extended family.
"The hijab and the niqab are not part of our tradition," another participant told AFP, adding that the haik could "enhance today's woman with all its lightness and elegance".
For a given definition of both terms that cannot be found in any sane dictionary.
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"S-L-****", say the ghosts of various Mullah Musings past.
[Al Jizz] The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the first-ever "offensive" UN peacekeeping brigade to battle rebels groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
The force of more than 2,500 troops will operate under orders to "neutralise" and "disarm" gangs in the resource-rich east of the huge country, according to the council's resolution on Thursday.
The intervention brigade is unprecedented in UN peacekeeping because of its offensive mandate.
But the resolution states clearly that it would be established for one year "on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent" to the principles of UN peacekeeping.
Surveillance drones will be used to monitor the DR Congo's borders with neighbours accused of backing the rebels will be operating by July, according to UN officials.
The resolution, sponsored by La Belle France, the US and Togo, would give the brigade a mandate to operate "in a robust, highly mobile and versatile manner" to ensure that gangs cannot seriously threaten government authority or the security of civilians.
UN peacekeepers were unable to protect civilians from M23 rebels, whose movement began in April 2012 when hundreds of troops defected from the Congolese armed forces.
The resolution strongly condemns the continued presence of the M23 in the immediate vicinity of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, and its attempts to establish "an illegitimate parallel administration in North Kivu".
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The intervention brigade is unprecedented in UN peacekeeping because of its offensive mandate.
But the resolution states clearly that it would be established for one year "on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent.
[FRANCE24] Days after Seleka rebels seized the Central African Republic in a deadly 48-hour offensive, victims of the violence are struggling to get help in the capital with hospitals lacking medicine, equipment and even water.
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[Bangla Daily Star]Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... yesterday asked the armed forces to employ all their strength to resist any move against the country's constitution and democracy.
Reminding the forces of previous moves by vested quarters to jeopardise democracy, she asked them to remain fully loyal to the country's charter and the democratically elected government.
"You have to ensure that no undemocratic force can capture state power using the armed forces ever again," Hasina said, addressing the armed forces officers at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment.
Her call came hot on the heels of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's March 24 speech in Bogra where she said the army would not play the role of "a silent spectator as people get killed" and that it would "play its role in due time".
Criticism of Khaleda's remarks has been mounting, with many describing it as a provocation.
Hasina reminded the armed forces of the struggle and sacrifices the nation had to make to establish democracy, and said: "Members of the armed forces will have to be built up in the light of democratic norms so that they become respectful to democracy and fully loyal and respectful to the country's constitution and democratic government."
In this context, she directed the forces to prepare themselves to face any threat to protect the constitution and maintain continuation of democracy as in other independent countries.
The prime minister said the forces would be kept out of any untoward interference and that her government in no circumstances would allow them to be used for partisan interests.
"I firmly believe that it is absolutely crucial to keep the armed forces above political influence in order for them to give all their activities and management an institutional shape," she said.
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[Dawn] The interior ministry on Wednesday provided 36 police guards to former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and 10 coppers to his predecessor Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... , it has been learnt.
In addition, one police mobile comprising four constables and one head constable will perform security duty with the wife of Mr Gilani while two police quads comprising one head constable and six constables will be deployed with the two brothers of Raja Pervez Ashraf.
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[Bangla Daily Star] In a clash between the CPI(Maoists) and Tritioya Prastitui Committee(TPC), a splinter group of Naxalites, 15 top Maoists, including their area, zonal and platoon commanders were killed at Lakarbandha village in Chatra district. One central area committee member was also killed in the fierce fighting which continued till wee hours of yesterday.
Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar said that police has so far recovered ten dead bodies from the forests in Lakarbagha panchayat under Kunda cop shoppe of Chatra district after the shootout between the two banned outfits concluded.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Man Assaulted Roommate Who Drew Penis On His Face After He Passed Out
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
Khaleda Zia
[Bangla Daily Star] In a clash between the CPI(Maoists) and Tritioya Prastitui Committee(TPC), a splinter group of Naxalites, 15 top Maoists, including their area, zonal and platoon commanders were killed at Lakarbandha village in Chatra district. One central area committee member was also killed in the fierce fighting which continued till wee hours of yesterday.
