Cyber attacks or clusterfudges?

Trading on the NY Stock Exchange was stopped this morning around 11:30 a.m.  for about 2 hours. An internal technical problem was detected and it was learned that other cyber technical problems simultaneously occurred in other areas. Other exchanges were not effected.

Was this a cyber attack or did a bunch of stockbrokers forget to pay the monthly internet fee to Verizon? The matter is being investigated, but one thing for certain is that a glitch like this is not at all typical.

Soon after the outage, the NYSE tweeted that the glitch was internal and not a breach, but the tweet may have actually emanated from ISIS or China, nobody is certain and nobody is taking responsibility for the tweet. Just kidding.

What they tweeted was: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach. We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to"-- then they ran out over the 140 character limit Twitter allows for each tweet. What they had to add was: "avoid problems arising from our technical issue."

It is believed that the person who tweeted the first part of the tweet is the same person who is the IT responsible for maintaining the NYSE.  

Other computer glitches that coincided with this one included United Airlines flights. They had to ground their jets when computers told the pilots to fly into large buildings in major cities. Another glitch occurred with the Wall Street Journal after a reporter was about to email an exclusive "gotcha" interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (pronounced "Jay" but spelling was never a strong point in the Johnson family) said of the curious simultaneous occurrences, "It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at United and at the stock exchange were not the  result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the Wall Street Journal at this point except that their system is back up again as is the United Airline system."

He too ran out of tweet characters but wisely did it in two tweets.


Marie Harf tweeted: "Hey Jeh, what's nefarious?"

President Obama has been briefed by the NYSE and he blamed the problem on George W. Bush for not regulating NYSE more ambitiously.

The FBI has offered its help regarding the NYSE problem but they agree with Jeh Johnson that the situation does not appear to be nafarious. 

Marie Harf had not comment.



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Kim and Dennis Off the Hook?

Guess what. It wasn't Kim. It wasn't even Dennis Rodman.

New evidence brought to the FBI by a security company claims that the culprit who hacked Sony over the making of the film The Interview, is a laid-off employee of the company. North Korea's Kim Jong-un is innocent of the cyber attack.

Norse, a cyber intelligence firm told Fox News that they turned over information to the FBI on Tuesday and briefed the FBI during a meeting in St. Louis. No cops were attacked at the meeting.

Kurt Stammberger, senior vice president for market development of Norse said the "they were very open" to the new information his company provided to them.

Many have voiced skepticism about the FBI's claim that it was Kim Jong-un who was responsible for the attack, saying that North Korea doesn't have the cyber capability to launch such a sophisticated assault.

Stammberger said that his company has data about the malware samples that indicated "super, super detailed insider information" that only a Sony insider would have.

But the FBI is saying "that's our story, and we're sticking by it." Of course, this led to massive numbers of First Amendment patriots, as well as a few liberals, flock to the web to see the movie as a way of flipping the bird to Kim and Dennis Rodman.

In a statement issued by the FBI they stated: "The FBI has concluded the Government of North Korea is responsible for the theft and destruction of date on the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment." They then went so far as to assert: "Attribution to North Korea is based on intelligence from the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community, DHS, foreign partners and the private sector."

Yeah, sure. Where is the NSA when you need them?

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Sony, Obama, Castro and Hawaii.

President Obama held his year-end news conference today just before going on a well-deserved vacation in Hawaii on our well-deserved taxes. Okay, so maybe his vacation is yet another vacation by a man who seems to enjoy golf and vacationing than actual work, but our tax dollars are well-deserved and I wish we could keep more of them.

The main issues he addressed were the Sony cyber attack by North Korea (or at least that's who they say is responsible), and the kissing up to Cuba's dictators, Raul and Fidel Castro after 50 years of sanctions.

Obama said he believes Sony "made a mistake" by not releasing "The Interview," a satire about the chubby dictator of North Korea, Kim Jung Un. Our divisive president vowed that the U.S. "will respond," but didn't say just how we will. If I were Kim, I wouldn't be too scared--Obama tends to speak lots of empty words, but does so very nicely. According to Harry Reid, he doesn't even have a Negro accent.

The FBI formally blamed Kim and his regime for the cyber-attack, which Obama mentioned via TelePrompTer. "We will respond," he vowed, and short of shaking a fist, nothing more was outlined. It is highly likely that Mr. Obama will first consult the polls before making any unilateral decision, unlike Kim Jung Un, who has no polls to consult, and all decisions are unilateral and final.

Barack mocked the regime for launching an "all-out assault" over a flick that was simply a satire, but he also went after Sony for being a bunch of pussies. He said that Sony should have spoken to him first, before making any decisions, but it would have been entirely possible for Obama to have called Sony if they didn't make the call to him.

In a patriotic and moving statement that brought many Americans to tears, Obama said: "We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States." 

He did not add, but should have added: "If any censorship is going to be imposed in the United States of America, it's going to be imposed by me and it's going to be imposed over Islam and the Prophet, peace be upon him. Nobody screws with my prophet, peas be up in him."

In a moment of uncharacteristic liberal logic Obama explained that if someone can "intimidate" a company from releasing a satirical movie, "imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like." He was, of course, referring to Fox News, which he doesn't like either.

The so-called president said, in typical liberal logic that we will respond "proportionally" in a "place and  time and manner" of their choosing. When any man hears someone say in a fight, that he will respond "proportionally," any man knows the words are being spoken by someone who had never really been in a fight. You don't respond "proportionally," you respond with shock and awe and beat the holy crap out of your attacker so the message is clear and the behavior will cease immediately. Proportionally is for ideologues who believe everything in creation must be handed out equally--oh wait--we also call them Communists.

On the "hug a dictator front," Obama has made his lifetime dream come true: he is courting the Castros.  He will "normalize relations" with Cuba in spite of their killing Americans as recently as 1996. To show his good faith to Fidel and Raul, Obama is releasing three spies, one of whom is a killer. Hey, it's a better deal than we had with Bowe Bergdahl where we released five known jihadist murderers for a traitorous scumbag whose court results are still being kept secret from the public who paid for his defense.

Cuban-American lawmakers of both parties are angry at Obama over this decision. But Obama said that he had no illusions about the Castro regime. "This is still a regime that represses its people," he said, but failed to add, "which, all things being equal, I would do to these dumb voters in all 57 states. They need to be guided by me, someone smarter."

Obama is a lame duck but his dreams of dancing with Communism are coming true. His entire family was Communist and I suspect it had an effect on the way he sees things. 


Make no mistake; if he could finagle a third, fourth and tenth term in office, he would.

"Aloha, suckers."


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An Important Call to Alms

The Robert Spencer website, Jihad Watch, is under cyber attack by various Islamic groups. The attackers are using massive logins to shut the site down, and in order to keep this from happening, a seriously expensive firewall must be built to protect the website.

If you don't know who Robert Spencer is, and you're concerned about the terrorism taking place all over the world, you ought to go to www.JihadWatch.org  Mr. Spencer is one of the world's foremost authorities of Islam and has written extensively on the subject, especially from the viewpoint of the infidel. Imams fear him because they cannot argue against the facts he presents in debates, so they attack him ad hominem instead. 

So what I'm suggesting is that after reading this, you go to Jihad Watch and consider making a small donation to help fund the needed firewall. These cyber jihadists are subjecting the site to over a million hits an hour, and hoping to take it down and shut Spencer up. 

I have never asked any of my readers to donate to anything (although, I must admit, I have suggested they check out my advertisers by clicking onto their ads) but I truly believe it's worth a perusal to consider it. But before you do, I wouldn't stop you from clicking on one of my ads or more, I get a pittance if you do, but then go over to Jihad Watch and consider donating. They're giving one of Robert Spencer's latest books for a $25 donation. The book alone is worth it at this time in American history where knowing who and what we're dealing with is essential to our future.

Thanks for reading this.

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