April Fool’s Day 2014 (not a joke): NATO Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations with Russia Over a Year Ago

Didn’t realize this, but I guess NATO dropped diplomatic ties with Russia on April 1, 2014. I don’t think that was an April Fool’s Day joke.

“We have decided to suspend all practical civilian and military cooperation between NATO and Russia.”

http://www.nato.int/nrc-website/en/articles/20140327-announcement/index.html

Initial Look at HackingTeam Exploits Source Code

This is a screen cap of the vector-exploit directory in the hackingteam_exploits repo on GitHub.
This is a screen cap of the vector-exploit directory in the hackingteam_exploits repo on GitHub.
My initial look at the HackingTeam Exploits source code found projects using a number of different programming languages: Ruby to attack OSX with a fake zip file, lots of Python run rampant (e.g. modern script kiddies), and a C++ project that looked like it was associated with Microsoft Visual C++ (maybe the zero-day kernel Flash exploit everyones patching today).

I cloned them as private repos. Let’s see if GitHub tries to delete them.

More to come…

China stocks dive in panic selling – MarketWatch

Been watching this all day. In the last 45 minutes the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP is down around ~5%.

Chinese stocks plunged rapidly out of the Wednesday open, with the Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, -4.66% starting down 7% and extending the loss to 8.2%, before recovering slightly to 4.8%.

via China stocks dive in panic selling – MarketWatch.

World Bank Deletes Critical Passage on China – WSJ

 

World Bank Deletes Critical Passage on China - WSJ

When I read this last Friday, it concerned me more than anything else I read that day. And Friday is the day I get both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

The “World Bank” is the popular name for the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development, an institution originally founded to help rebuild national economies damaged or destroyed during World War II.

The section of a World Bank report that calls on China to reduce government interference in the nation’s financial system starting “at the highest level” has been removed from the bank’s website two days after it was released.

via World Bank Deletes Critical Passage on China – WSJ.