politics for the 99%

Published on South China Morning Post, May 6, 2016.

Greece’s central bank says its website suffered a denial-of service attack as Anonymous announces the start of a 30-day campaign targeting major financial institutions.

Anonymous has launched a 30-day attack against “all central banks” and major financial institutions, the activist-hacking group warned this week, after recent strikes on several major banks around the world by different hackers.  

Anonymous claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the National Bank of Greece on Tuesday, just a week after Qatar National Bank suffered a major data breach attributed by the media to a Turkish group called Bozkurt Hackers …;

In March, the Bangladesh Central Bank reported US$100 million stolen from its account at the Federal Bank of New York after a weekend break, according to media reports. The Bangladesh Central Bank said hackers had transferred the money to bank accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka … //

… In November, the U.K. government said it planned to almost double its investment in cybersecurity to £1.9 billion (US$2.8 billion) over five years.

Meanwhile, the hackers who struck the Qatar National Bank have attacked a second bank and plan to leak more data, according to Gulf News, which cited a cybersecurity expert.

“The attackers announced that they are going to make the data public for the second attack, in the next few days. This data could be used for ransom,” Mohammad Amin Hasbini, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said, according to Gulf News.

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some BANKS related Links:

• India Gets Something Absolutely Right – the New Bankruptcy Code, on Forbes, by Tim Worstall, May 8, 2016; Bankruptcy Code for some countries;
• Third bankruptcy of BHS buyer revealed, on BBCnews, May 8, 2016: Dominic Chappell, whose consortium bought the failed retailer BHS last year, has been declared bankrupt three times, it has been claimed;
• Pat Buchanan: How to Bring Manufacturing Back Home, 5.50 min, uploaded by VisionLiberty, May 7, 2016;
• Anonymous Threatens Bank DDoS Disruptions, on Bank Info Security, by Mathew J. Schwartz, May 6, 2016; Denial of Service DoS; /DDoS = DoS Level 2;
• Anonymous Launches Month-Long Hacking Campaign Against Banks, on Fortune, by Don Reisinger, May 4, 2016;
• Hacking group Anonymous announces war against Bank of England and New York Stock Exchange, on Mirror.co.uk, by Anthony Bond, May 4, 2016;
• Anonymous – latest news & opinion on the hacktivist network, on Mirror.co.uk, May 4, 2016; Anonymous (group); /Related groups; /See also; /External Links;
• Uniform definition for non-performing assets on the cards, on The Economic Times/Banking, April 17, 2016;
• Non-performing asset NPA is defined as a credit facility in respect of which the interest and/or installment of principal has remained ‘past due’ for a specified period of time. In simple terms, an asset is tagged as non performing when it ceases to generate income for the lender …;
• Bank for International Settlements, FED’s Central Bank – a deeper Look, 20.27 min, uploaded by VisionLiberty, July 28, 2013 … talks with Adam LeBor …;
• (in 2011 were still) 3 Countries left without a Rothschild Central Bank, 5.27 min, uploaded by syyenergy7, March 7, 2013 … in 2011 it was Cuba, North Korea, Iran – but in 2000 we had also Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Lybia … (my comment: 4 coutries having suffered destructive wars since … a coincidence? Now in 2016 it seems that Iran and Cuba have better relations, and yesterday TV showed a little more pacific North Korea leader. Question: who knows what’s about Rothschild banks now in these 3 countries) – Heidi;
• The Bank For International Settlements (BIS) – Patrick M. Wood, uploaded by BackToConstitution, Feb 16, 2012: Part 1, 14.59 min; Part 2, 14.59 min; Part 3, 5.29 min;

Other Links:

The TTIPing Point: Protests Threaten Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal, on Spiegel Online International, by Dinah Deckstein, Simone Salden and Michaela Schießl, May 6, 2016 (Photo Gallery): an unprecedented protest movement of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany has pushed negotiations over the TTIP trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to the brink of collapse. The demonstrations are characterized by a level of professionalism not previously seen;

The TTIP Leaks, on Politics for the 99%, MAy 9, 2016;

Fluchtziel Berlin – die überforderte Hauptstadt HD, 43.56 min, uploaded by DokumentarFilme, Feb 16, 2016 … in der Reihe “Flüchtlinge: Willkommen oder unerwünscht?” blickt die “ZDF.reportage” nach Berlin. Von circa 60 000 Flüchtlingen spricht der Senat – eine riesige Herausforderung für die Stadt;

Was machen die Flüchtlingen nun? 28.06 min, uploaded by doku kingmen, Feb 8, 2016;

Verschwundene Kinder in Deutschland HD, 43.30 min, uploaded by Doku Baron 2016, Jan 31, 2016;

AUDIO to listen for free: The Economics of Inequality, Audio Download – Unabridged, on amazon.co.uk, by Thomas Piketty (Author), Arthur Goldhammer – translator (Author), L. J. Ganser (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher); all books on amazon with THOMAS PIKETTY.