More sinister than Stuxnet, Flame computer virus strikes Iran and other enemies of Israel

Oh, we so loved Stuxnet, the little computer worm that could. It could and it did make life miserable for Iranian nuclear scientists as it wormed its way in and out, unimpeded and seemingly unstoppable, wreaking havoc with Iran’s nuclear facilities, for many months.

INN  (H/T liz) Now, apparently, Stuxnet has an even more ominous successor. Iranian security experts report a virus far more dangerous than the Stuxnet worm has struck the country’s computer systems. Dubbed the “Flame,” the virus is one that has struck not only Iran, however, but a number of other enemies of Israel as well.

The country with the largest number of machines infected by Flame is believed to be Iran, following by the West Bank, and Sudan and Syria after that. Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have also been affected.

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THE MOST COMPLEX ‘CYBER WEAPON’ OF ALL TIME – WHAT FLAME DOES

The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which attacked an Iranian uranium enrichment facility, causing centrifuges to fail. 

It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information, Kaspersky Labs said.     

Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.     

He said there was evidence to suggest the code was commissioned by the same nation or nations that were behind Stuxnet and Duqu, which were built on a common platform. DAILY MAIL

The Flame ‘cyber weapon’ has been discovered in thousands of computers in the Middle East. The virus, discovered by security experts Kaspersky Labs, marks a new era in cyber warfare.

The virus, called ‘Flame’ is  the third major cyber weapon uncovered after the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain.   

The virus is 100 times more complex than normal PC viruses, and designed to steal information – it can even turn on microphones on infected PCs to listen to conversations. All the viruses are so complex they are said to have required the resources of a nation state to create.

The Kaspersky Internet security firm is calling the “Flame” data-stealing virus the “most sophisticated cyber-weapon yet unleashed” and hinted it may have been created by the makers of the Stuxnet worm.

Kaspersky called the virus a “cyber-espionage worm” designed to collect and delete sensitive information, primarily in Middle Eastern countries.

The “Flame” has struck at least 600 specific computer systems in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, Kaspersky malware expert Vitaly Kamluk told the BBC. He added that the virus has probably been operating discreetly for at least two years.

“This virus is stronger than its predecessor,” he said. “It is one that could only have been created by a state or other large entity.”

Problems in Iran’s computer systems are also continuing to surface in connection with the 2010 “Stuxnet” virus. The malware successfully disabled the computers that operated Iran’s uranium enrichment facility. More than 16,000 of the Natanz facility’s centrifuges were destroyed as a result of the cyber attack.

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South Africa has announced plans to boycott Israeli products, Denmark and Ireland may follow, but in the West Bank, Israeli products are flying off the shelves

Ironically, those who would get harmed the most by the boycott of Israeli products are some 15,000 Palestinian workers who are employed in the West Bank.

YNET NEWS (H/T Susan K)  The storm surrounding South Africa’s decision to boycott Israeli products manufactured in the West Bank is the result of a successful Palestinian campaign. Yet a Ynet probe reveals that the Palestinian Authority continues to market Israeli products, with locals seeing no reason why they should stop purchasing the products.

The boycott, which was recently announced in South Africa, is set to spread to Denmark and Ireland has also announced that it is considering a boycott. As mentioned, the Palestinian Authority has been pushing a campaign through the Palestinian National Initiative led by Mustafa Barghouti which has been gathering momentum.

(Too bad they can’t see that Israeli products are big sellers in Palestinian markets like this new supermarket in Gaza, Metro, where the boycotters would be forced to protest the fact that it is not adhering to BDS because it sells so many Israeli products – and even features them prominently)

 Photos below of Israeli products in Gaza store thanks to Elder of Ziyon

For example, in November 2011, Barghouti had reporters take pictures of him spilling an Israeli orange drink into the street together with other Palestinian activists. Barghouti and other senior Palestinian officials welcomed the South African government’s decision yet it would seem that the wind of change has not yet reached the Palestinian Authority.

Brand names like Tnuva, Osem, Elite, and other smaller Israeli brands are displayed in Hebrew and Arabic side by side in stores in Bethlehem. The names are even featured on the store signs and in the stores themselves.

“People love and buy Israeli products,” says one Bethlehem minimarket owner. And while there are local dairies that sell their products in the Palestinian Authority, he says “lots of people prefer to buy Tnuva products simply because there is tighter supervision and they want to feel safe in what they buy.

“It has nothing to do with politics. When we buy a product from you (Israelis) we know it is under supervision and only made with fresh ingredients.”

The Israeli goods are not only found at the local food markets in the PA. Imad Naama, who owns a cleaning and hygiene product warehouse, explains that there is no comparison between the quality of Israeli products and other brands. “If my clients see that the product has Hebrew letters on it or if it says the product is from Israel, they are sure that it is better,” he notes.

Naama said that during the period before the Second Intifada and before the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, products produced in Palestinian factories were marked in Hebrew and people were sure that was their place of origin.

After the Intifada broke out, manufacturers changed the inscription and removed the Hebrew so people refused to buy it, even though it was the exact same product. “They said they weren’t willing to purchase it because it’s what you call ‘Arabic work’,” he joked.

Faiz Hamadan and Khaled Saleima, stall owners at the market in Bethlehem said they had no political issue with selling Israeli made produce so long as it did not originate in the settlements.

“As long as the products come that come from Israel are inscribed in Arabic – it’s fine and people will buy it.” The calls to boycott Israeli products have mainly permeated at the slogan level. On the ground there is no sweeping implementation of the boycott.

Interestingly, even Israeli Chanukah chocolate coins are sold in Gaza

“We don’t really have much of a choice as the Palestinian industry is not developed enough to compete with Israeli merchandise. There are things you can’t buy unless they come from Israel since they aren’t produced here, minimarket owners admit.”

For his part, Naama said that he has heard of the boycott campaign but says it will never work, as long as there is no alternative. “I have no problem with people trying to encourage the use of Palestinian products. That’s fine, but you need to have Palestinian alternatives to the products,” he stated.

Bleeding heart British liberal bitch screams at Muslims for selling Israeli dates in their London store.


Harlem elementary school students forced to learn Arabic during lunch breaks

Mandatory Arabic instruction in NYC public schools isn’t scheduled to begin until the fall, but at a school in the poorest community of Harlem, forcing children to learn Arabic at lunchtime has already begun.

What a sneaky way to get kids to pray to Allah by blessing the food they are about to eat.

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Is her headbag on too tight? Or is she just showing off her inbreeding?

 Young baghead explains that “we girls must cover ourselves because we don’t want to show off our ‘beautiness’ (sic) to everybody. After all, you wouldn’t buy a honey bun if it had holes in its wrapper.”


SAUDIS in full meltdown over McDonald’s toy that they say insults the prophet Muhammad

According to the Saudi whackjobs, the designs that appear all around the base, where the figure stomps its foot, is really the name Muhammed written several times in circles.

Gatestone Institute (H/T Martin & Liz)  Saudi Arabians are furious at a McDonald’s toy which they say mocks their prophet Muhammad. According to a report appearing today (5/27/12) on the Arabic news website, Kermalkom.com, the McDonald’s fast food restaurant “abused the Prophet Muhammad by placing his name at the base of a toy that is being distributed as part of the Happy Meal, a toy which steps on the name ‘Muhammad.’” (Actually, putting the name of Muhammad on a children’s toy is an accurate representation of Muhammad’s well-documented paedophilia)

The toy consists of a blue superhero figurine – apparently a Power Ranger Samurai. It stands on one leg, and, when the lever is pressed, it pounds on the base with the other leg. According to the Saudis, the designs that appear all around the base, where the figurine stomps its foot, is really the name “Muhammad” written several times in circles.

The toy had been distributed a few days before Saudi children and their parents began to take note of the name. Soon thereafter, Saudi Muslims launched several campaigns against McDonald’s in “response to the savage attacks on the noble Prophet,” under banners like “Help your Prophet!” and “Together in support of the Prophet.”

Saudis, “demanding the strongest possible punishment for the restaurant” and insisting that “they will not be silent until this is realized,” further complained how such an obvious insult could pass the supervision of the management at McDonalds.(Will there be a mass beheading of McDonald’s executives in the public square on Sunday?)

In response, “Saudi McDonald’s” has withdrawn the toy from all its restaurants, “in order to safeguard against any accusations or misunderstandings.” (Figures, Mickey D’s in all its dhimmitude)

Apparently, the Saudis think the little squiggles around the base say Muhammad

 


RONALD REAGAN tried to warn us about Barack Hussein Obama way back in 1964

In honor of Memorial Day, President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1964 speech, ‘ A Time for Choosing,’ never more relevant than today.


PAT CONDELL has another go at ‘Gay’ Saudi Arabia

The inimitable Pat is still leading the war on Islam. And yes, we ARE at war with Islam.

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Apparently, the Muslim terrorist-apologists over at ‘Islamophobia Watch’ are unhappy that BNI readers are such big fans of Pat Condell.

Islamophobia Watch  Pat Condell, the National Secular Society’s favourite comedian (he has been repeatedly nominated for their Secularist of the Year award, although he has yet to win it) has long had a fan base among the Islamophobic right in the United States. He has recently acquired a new admirer. It’s none other than Bonni Benstock-Intall of the hate site Bare Naked Islam, which achieved notoriety last year for its promotion of violence against Muslims and attacks on mosques. Over the past year or so Bare Naked Islam has repeatedly posted Condell’s videos and hailed him as a fellow anti-Muslim bigot.

I get the impression that even the National Secular Society has begun to find Condell a bit of an embarrassment. The NSS no longer loudly proclaims Condell as a member, urging everyone to watch his Islamophobic videos and pouring scorn on critics who characterised his anti-Muslim diatribes as hate speech. Given Condell’s repeated rants against immigrant rapists, that is hardly surprising. By any standards the material Condell produces these days can’t be characterised as anything other than hate speech, as his enthusiastic endorsement by Bare Naked Islam makes clear. But we’ve yet to hear any leading figure in the NSS dissociate the organisation from Condell or withdraw its earlier declarations of support for him.


Al-Qaeda flags flying high as radical Islamists declare northern Mali an independent state governed by sharia law

Mali moved a step closer to being broken in two on Sunday when al-Qaeda-linked Islamists and Tuareg rebels declared the nation’s north an independent country to be ruled according to sharia law.

UK TELEGRAPH  Diplomats and Mali’s neighbours fear that the country, once a beacon for democratic stability in West Africa, is poised to plunge further into crisis following a coup two months ago.

The “declaration of independence” for the northern half of Mali, Africa’s sixth-largest country, came late on Saturday. Timbuktu, the history trading centre and seat of Tuareg learning, now lies in the disputed territory, to be known as Azawad, which is almost the size of France.

“The two movements have created the transitional council of the Islamic state of Azawad,” the groups, which have been controlling the area for the past two months, said in their “protocol agreement”. ”We are all in favour of the independence of Azawad … We all accept Islam as the religion,” they said, adding that Islam would also be the main source of law.

Islamist fighters, grouped together as Ansar Dine, which has links to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, then took the chance of the power vacuum also to seize territory.

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16-year-old Pakistani Christian girl savagely maimed by Muslims with battery acid for refusing to convert to Islam

For refusing to renounce her Christian faith, Julie Aftab’s Muslim attackers threw battery acid in her face and poured it down her throat. Aftab survived, but then she was poisoned while recovering in the hospital and then later shot. Somehow she held on.

Miraculously, a benefactor brought her to the United States where she underwent extensive surgery to repair the damage done by the battery acid. Catholic Charities took over after that and helped her recover and establish a life in the United States. Although she still suffers some health challenges from the acid attack, Aftab will soon obtain an accounting degree at the University of Houston and recently got engaged.

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EGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood voters are exactly like Barack Hussein Obama voters

The Al-Qaeda founders of the Muslim Brotherhood campaigned on practically the same issues as Obama – hope, change, and lots of free government handouts, not to mention throwing Israel under the bus. No wonder these Islamist brothers have been honored guests at the White House recently.

As for that sharia law thing…coming soon. Coptic Christians had better head for the hills.


Egyptian Sheikh yuks it up about getting foreign officials to don headbags (hijabs)

Sheikh Ahmed al-Mahlawi brags about how a female official from the U.S. Consulate wanted to meet with him, but he insisted she wear a Muslim headbag/hijab first. Judging by the photo below, he has even coerced a male political figure into wearing a headbag.

Apparently, al-Mahlawi isn’t the only one having a good chuckle over seeing American female political figures bowing down to the laws of Islam. See photos below.

Raymond Ibrahim  According to El Badil, Sheikh Ahmed al-Mahlawi recently gave a sermon in his popular Alexandrian mosque, warning the ulema (Islam’s scholars and theologians) from “appearing on TV programs with women who do not wear the hijab.” He pointed out that some Islamic leaders make the excuse that, because they see non-veiled women all the time in the streets of Egypt, sitting with one at a TV studio should be fine as well.

For Sheikh Mahlawi, however, the ulema have no choice about seeing non-veiled women in the streets, “since that is imposed on them,” but, where they have a say—such as whether to appear on TV with an unveiled woman—they must say no.   Finally, he culminated his sermon by saying “those who do not wish to apply Allah’s Sharia” are also those who “love the West, and wish to implement homosexual marriage.”

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice submitted

Valerie Jarrett and Hillary

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PAKISTAN: “Don’t kill your baby girls,” says sign in front of orphanage in Karachi

But the miserable lives in store for baby girls born in Pakistan, makes it easy to understand why some mothers prefer to kill them at birth.

Girls/women who rebel against the oppression they face from their own families end in in psyche wards. Some have actually lost their minds from the beatings, virtual imprisonment in their homes, and girls-for-sale forced marriages. Others are perfectly sane, but their Muslim families don’t want to deal with daughters who refuse to be subservient.

Runaways fleeing forced marriages, abusive husbands, and rapists are sent to prison because under Islamic law, you can be charged with a rape crime, even if you are the victim.

The kidnapping and selling of young girls to old men is a big business for the thriving Pakistani sex slave traders. Unimpeded by the government, corrupt police are paid off for their silence by the sex traders. In some cases, officials and police even assist the slave traders by sending runaway girls to them. Many of these girls end up in the hundreds of brothels which are doing big business in Karachi.

Not surprisingly, the narrator absolves Islam of any blame for the horrific conditions suffered by women in Pakistan.

Shocking rise in baby girl murders in Pakistan

The babies are victims of what one relief agency calls Pakistan’s worst unfolding tragedy: the killing and dumping of newborns. “Sometimes they hang them, sometimes they stab them, and sometimes we find bodies which have been burned to death,” said Anwar Kazmi, of the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan’s largest private social service and relief agency.

At a morgue in Pakistan, five small pouches line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each is the corpse of an infant. The killing and dumping of newborns, mostly girls, is happening more often.

More than 1,200 newborns were killed and dumped in Pakistan last year, an increase of about 200 from the previous year. Statistics show that roughly nine out of 10 are baby girls, which families may consider too costly to keep in a country where women frequently are not allowed to work. The babies are usually just days old. Their corpses are often dumped in Karachi’s sprawling garbage dumps, where they’re sometimes mutilated by street animals, Kazmi said. He estimates that hundreds of baby corpses are never found.

 


Hundreds of Muslim Asslifters marking their territory on the busiest street in Moscow

Where is the KGB? The fire hoses? Tear gas? Blocking off fire/emergency lanes and sidewalks, Muslims love to pray in public places that will inconvenience and antagonize the greatest number of people.

Have the Russians lost their minds to allow this rubbish to clog their streets on a regular basis?


FRANCE: Strasbourg residents show what they think about having a prayer room turned into an Islamic Indoctrination Center

An application has been made to turn this prayer room in Strasbourg into a mosque. The local people have used graffiti art to express their feelings on the matter. Their messages include: ‘Islam Out,’ ‘Dirty Arabs,’ ‘No Mosque’ and ‘Islam: Ries Collaborator’ (Ries is the Mayor of Strasbourg).

H/T Islam vs Europe


Virginia woman fighting to stop Monster Mosque & Islamic Indoctrination Center

Just days after ground was broken on a new mosque in Richmond, Sylvia Hoehns-Wright, who lives near the Islamic Center of Richmond, claims the small building currently there does not have enough parking for worshipers as it is. Imagine what will happen to the neighborhood when a 31,000 square-foot mosque is built on the same property.

WTVR  Earlier this month, the Henrico County Planning Commission approved plans to expand the mosque, daycare and school.

“[During the past 8 months], we`ve already experienced more than 100 vehicles there, the overflow of traffic into the various neighborhoods,” said Hoehns-Wright. ”And we`ve already seen the increase in accident.” 

“I would like someone to take a good look at the intensity of use, take a look at their website, understand how many meetings are going on there, get their arms around their unadvertised meetings that are going on there,” she said. “This is not just a daytime operation. It doesn`t really fit with the zoning qualifications we really have,” said Hoehns-Wright. “In fact,  the center is busy 365 days a year.”

 (And the mosque’s neighbors are so looking forward to the aroma of Halal-slaughtered tortured meat wafting  around the neighborhood and the Islamic Calls to Prayer starting at 5:00 in the morning)