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What's coming in 2015? Cyberattacks and hacks in 2014, and what they tell us.

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The media ramped up the propaganda about the threat of cyberwarfare in 2014. Why have they been forcing this on us? And what is in the works for 2015?

There are ominous signs for what’s coming.

The government-controlled media has made a point to highlight many hack attacks, along with the danger of significant future attacks that may even constitute cyberwarfare. While some of these attacks may have actually been perpetrated by independent hackers, others were probably perpetrated by the U.S. government — or some other international power. Whoever is responsible for these attacks, the media’s attention tells us we’re in the middle of a major propaganda campaign. And you can be sure there’s a reason for it.

Let’s look at several of these hack attacks before I offer some reasons why the propaganda machine has been forcing you to focus on them, and how it is going to affect you.

HACK ATTACKS from 2014

Note: I’m trying to list only one per month, although I break my rule a couple times.

January: On January 1, 2014, the supposed “Syrian Electronic Army” was hard at work doing what enemy hackers do: trolling Skype? That’s right. Syria’s military hackers supposedly took over Skype’s social media accounts, including their twitter account and blog. What important military operation were they conducting? This tweet may be an indication:

 

It is good to see that they included their hashtag — #SEA. If you’d like to see what other important hacks the Syrian trolls have been up to, just remember that hashtag — I’m sure they use it whenever they’re on a mission.

February: It was widely reported in February that there was a significant security breach at Kickstarter.com, where hackers stole usernames, passwords, mailing addresses, and phone numbers. Here’s an example of a mainstream report from CNN.

March: In March, RT.com (Russia Today news) was hacked as Russia was once again being accused of invading Ukraine. What did the hackers do? They substituted the word “Nazi” into headlines, like these:

“Russian senators vote to use stabilizing Nazi forces on Ukrainian territory”

“Putin: Nazi citizens, troops threatened in Ukraine, need armed forces’ protection”

“Thousands rally against ‘illegitimate govt’, raise Nazi flags in eastern Ukraine”

And so on.

Nothing like plastering “Nazi” all over Russia Today’s news site to get the Russia/Nazi concepts associated. Graham Cluley’s site has a nice screenshot of the vandalism.

April: You may have forgotten you had an AOL email account, but hackers didn’t. In April, your old account may have been spamming people everywhere. USA Today reported on this here. This is just another case of a major company being hacked, suggesting that no one is immune to this problem.

May: Pay up! That’s what many iPhone and iPad users in Australia and New Zealand woke up to one morning in May. A message told users that their devices had been hacked and locked. If they wanted them unlocked, they needed to pay a ransom. Even Apple can be hacked. (Story)

Other noteworthy May hacks and news include –

Kate Middleton, who was hacked over 100 times. You can read about that May news story at the Guardian’s site.

By May, it was reported that approximately half of U.S. adults had already been hacked in 2014.

And the FBI director James Comey accused China of hacking U.S. businesses, too.

“We’re not gonna stand for this conduct,” Comey said.

“The amount of theft that’s going on is simply staggering,” he later added.

June: Not even the Bush family and former high-level government officials are safe from hack attacks. The well-known hacker “Guccifer” was charged with wire fraud, unauthorized computer access, aggravated identity theft, and cyberstalking. He had hacked into email and Facebook accounts of a Bush relative, as well as three former high-ranking government officials.

As an aside, June was the month CNN told us why we’ll keep getting hacked: “Why You’ll Keep Getting Hacked.” Their advice? “Get used to it.”

July: The Syrian Electronic Army was back at it again in July — hashtag and all. This time, using their sophisticated Twitter hacking skills, they took over an Israeli Defence Force spokesperson’s account. Allegedly, they used the account to announce a “possible nuclear leak” as the result of a Palestinian strike:

An RT News image.

Are we sure the Syrian Electronic Army did it? Absolutely. They told us, both through their own account and the IDF spokesman’s account. And the #SEA tag is a give-away. Here’s what they tweeted from their account:

The good news about Syria’s tech soldiers? If they ever do anything that the U.S. may need to retaliate for, the government just needs to check for the hashtag. Read the RT report on this here.

August: The Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, was hacked. The hacker tweeted that Medvedev was resigning because he was fed up with the government.

September: In September, the U.S. Senate accused China’s military of hacking U.S. military contractor networks. This AP story details the allegations:

“China’s military hacked into computer networks of civilian transportation companies hired by the Pentagon at least nine times, breaking into computers aboard a commercial ship, targeting logistics companies and uploading malicious software onto an airline’s computers, Senate investigators said Wednesday.”

Additionally, Home Depot was hit with one of the largest ever credit breaches. Nearly 60 million payment cards were affected.

October: Bank hack, anyone? JP Morgan, the largest bank in the U.S., had nearly 80 million customer accounts hacked in October. Ouch. Lucky for the poor folks who still have significant amounts of money in the bank, they didn’t lose anything — yet.

Also in October: The Wall Street Journal reported that Russia was responsible for malicious code at FireEye Inc., a security company that had U.S. military secrets on its network. The discovery was described as “a sophisticated cyberweapon, able to evade detection and hop between computers walled off from the Internet.”

“The spy tool was programmed on Russian-language machines,” the WSJ article reported, “and [was] built during working hours in Moscow.”

FireEye concluded that the cyberspying had a government sponsor “based in Moscow.”

(“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” was released in early 2014 as anti-Russian propaganda.)

One last October hacking story is worth mentioning now. Although the story had been ongoing already, the “celebrity nude photo” hacks that garnered attention in 2014 were major news. This was another Apple iCloud hack, and several ‘stars’ had revealing pictures released onto the web. Because celebrities were involved, this was a great way to make everyone aware of the danger of hacking — even dolts who sit around following celebrity gossip news.

November: Judging by the hashtag, the Syrian Electronic Army was at it again in November, hacking media and other types of websites.

“Companies including Dell, Microsoft, Ferrari and humanitarian organization Unicef were among those targeted, according to screenshots on Twitter and a website claiming to be from the SEA. Media organizations such as Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph and Italy’s La Repubblica were also affected. The error message appeared to some users of CNBC.com.” (from CNBC)

And, of course, around the same time, Sony was hacked. Despite the Obama administration’s claim that North Korea was responsible, the experts don’t agree. Unfortunately, North Korea didn’t tweet us about it.

December: This month, it was reported that Russian criminal hackers stole millions in a bank hack.

And, of course, a South Korean nuclear power plant was hacked, allegedly (slanderously?) by North Korea.

Propaganda, Awareness, and a Plan

The examples above are just a small sample of what was reported about hack attacks. The news related to hacking wasn’t exclusively about hacks that already happened, either. There was a lot of news about potential hacks, cyber-terrorism, risks to the financial system, cyberwarfare, and on and on.

We know the mainstream media is controlled by the same globalists who are waging wars, creating financial crises, and incrementally rolling out a police state in the U.S. So this news has a purpose — and it is vitally important for us to know what that purpose is.

So, what are they up to? …..

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