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ANTI ATHEROSCLEROTIC EFFECT OF ADIPONECTIN
Hanik Badriyah Hidayati
Atherosclerosis is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the arterial wall. Atherosclerosis underlies many of the common causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, including myocardial infarction (MI), peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the most frequent cause of death globally and then stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and a major cause of long-term disability.
Recent study shows that adiponectin exhibits potent antiatherosclerotic effects. Adiponectin is a protein secreted specifically from adipose tissue. Adiponectin has a potential inhibitory effect on all molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis.
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Shopping for W2s, Tax Data on the Dark Web
The 2016 tax season is now in full swing in the United States, which means scammers are once again assembling vast dossiers of personal data and preparing to file fraudulent tax refund requests on behalf of millions of Americans. But for those lazy identity thieves who can't be bothered to phish or steal the needed data, there is now another option: Buying stolen W-2 tax forms from other crooks who have phished the documents wholesale from corporations.
A cybercriminal shop selling 2016 W-2 tax data.
Pictured in the screenshot above is a cybercriminal shop which sells the usual goods — stolen credit card data, PayPal account logins, and access to hacked computers. But hidden beneath the "other" category of goods for sale by this fraud bazaar is an option I've not previously encountered on these ubiquitous, cookie-cutter stores: A menu item advertising "W-2 2016."
This particular shop — the name of which is being withheld so as not to provide it with free advertising — currently includes raw W-2 tax form data on more than 3,600 Americans, virtually all of whom apparently reside in Florida. The data in each record includes the taxpayer's employer name, employer ID, address, taxpayer address, Social Security number and information about 2016 wages and taxes withheld.
Each W-2 record costs the Bitcoin equivalent of between $4 and $20. W-2 records for employees with higher-than-average wages in the 2016 tax year cost more, ostensibly because thieves stand to reap a higher tax refund from those W-2's if they successfully trick the Internal Revenue Service and/or the states into approving a fraudulent refund in the victim's name.
Tax refund fraud affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of U.S. citizens annually. Victims usually first learn of the crime after having their returns rejected because scammers beat them to it. Even those who are not required to file a return can be victims of refund fraud, as can those who are not actually due a refund from the IRS.
Tax data can be phished directly from consumers via phony emails spoofing the IRS or employers. But more often, the information is stolen in bulk from employers. In a typical scenario, the thieves target people who work in HR and payroll departments at corporations, and spoof an email from a higher-up in the company asking for all employee W-2 data to be included in a single file and emailed immediately.
Incredibly, this scam tricks countless organizations into giving away all employee W-2 data directly to identity thieves who use it (or, in this case, sell it) for tax refund fraud. Earlier this month, solar panel maker Sunrun disclosed that a spear phishing attack exposed W-2 tax form data on more than 3,400 employees.
In this case, however, it does not appear the cybercrime shop obtained the W-2's through phishing employers. It cost roughly $25 worth of Bitcoin to reveal the likely common thread among all 3,600+ Floridians being exploited by this shop: A local tax preparation firm that got hacked or phished. Continue reading →
A Shakeup in Russia's Top Cybercrime Unit
A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, was that it dealt primarily with petty crooks involved in petty crimes, while ignoring more substantive security issues like government surveillance and cyber war. But now it appears that the chief antagonist of Spam Nation is at the dead center of an international scandal involving the hacking of U.S. state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois, the sacking of Russia's top cybercrime investigators, and the slow but steady leak of unflattering data on some of Russia's most powerful politicians.
Sergey Mikhaylov
In a major shakeup that could have lasting implications for transnational cybercrime investigations, it's emerged that Russian authorities last month arrested Sergey Mikhaylov — the deputy chief of the country's top anti-cybercrime unit — as well as Ruslan Stoyanov, a senior employee at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab.
In a statement released to media, Kaspersky said the charges against Stoyanov predate his employment at the company beginning in 2012. Prior to Kaspersky, Stoyanov served as deputy director at a cybercrime investigation firm called Indrik, and before that as a major in the Russian Ministry of Interior's Moscow Cyber Crime Unit.
In a move straight out of a Russian spy novel, Mikhaylov reportedly was arrested while in the middle of a meeting, escorted out of the room with a bag thrown over his head. Both men are being tried for treason. As a result, the government's case against them is classified, and it's unclear exactly what they are alleged to have done.
However, many Russian media outlets now report that the men are suspected of leaking information to Western investigators about investigations, and of funneling personal and often embarrassing data on Russia's political elite to a popular blog called Humpty Dumpty (Шалтай-Болтай). Continue reading →
ATM 'Shimmers' Target Chip-Based Cards
Several readers have called attention to warnings coming out of Canada about a supposedly new form of card skimming called "shimming" that targets chip-based credit and debit cards. Shimming attacks are not new (KrebsOnSecurity first wrote about them in August 2015), but they are likely to become more common as a greater number of banks in the United States shift to issuing chip-based cards. Here's a brief primer on shimming attacks, and why they succeed.
Several shimmers recently found inside Canadian point-of-sale devices. Source: RCMP.
Most skimming devices made to steal credit card data do so by recording the data stored in plain text on the magnetic stripe on the backs of cards. A shimmer, on the other hand, is so named because it acts a shim that sits between the chip on the card and the chip reader in the ATM or point-of-sale device — recording the data on the chip as it is read by the underlying machine.
Data collected by shimmers cannot be used to fabricate a chip-based card, but it could be used to clone a magnetic stripe card. Although the data that is typically stored on a card's magnetic stripe is replicated inside the chip on chip-enabled cards, the chip contains an additional security components not found on a magnetic stripe.
One of those is a component known as an integrated circuit card verification value or "iCVV" for short — also known as a "dynamic CVV." The iCVV differs from the card verification value (CVV) stored on the physical magnetic stripe, and protects against the copying of magnetic-stripe data from the chip and using that data to create counterfeit magnetic stripe cards.
A close-up of a shimmer found inside a point-of-sale device in Canada. Source: RCMP.
The reason shimmers exist at all is that some banks have apparently not correctly implemented the chip card standard, known as EMV (short for Europay, Mastercard and Visa).
"The only way for this attack to be successful is if a [bank card] issuer neglects to check the CVV when authorizing a transaction," ATM giant NCR Corp. wrote in a 2016 alert to customers. "All issuers MUST make these basic checks to prevent this category of fraud. Card Shimming is not a vulnerability with a chip card, nor with an ATM, and therefore it is not necessary to add protection mechanisms against this form of attack to the ATM." Continue reading →
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Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?
On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with "Mirai," a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet for use in large cyberattacks. Roughly a week after that assault, the individual(s) who launched that attack — using the name "Anna-Senpai" — released the source code for Mirai, spawning dozens of copycat attack armies online.
After months of digging, KrebsOnSecurity is now confident to have uncovered Anna-Senpai's real-life identity, and the identity of at least one co-conspirator who helped to write and modify the malware.
Mirai co-author Anna-Senpai leaked the source code for Mirai on Sept. 30, 2016.
Before we go further, a few disclosures are probably in order. First, this is easily the longest story I've ever written on this blog. It's lengthy because I wanted to walk readers through my process of discovery, which has taken months to unravel. The details help in understanding the financial motivations behind Mirai and the botnet wars that preceded it. Also, I realize there are a great many names to keep track of as you read this post, so I've included a glossary.
The story you're reading now is the result of hundreds of hours of research. At times, I was desperately seeking the missing link between seemingly unrelated people and events; sometimes I was inundated with huge amounts of information — much of it intentionally false or misleading — and left to search for kernels of truth hidden among the dross. If you've ever wondered why it seems that so few Internet criminals are brought to justice, I can tell you that the sheer amount of persistence and investigative resources required to piece together who's done what to whom (and why) in the online era is tremendous.
As noted in previous KrebsOnSecurity articles, botnets like Mirai are used to knock individuals, businesses, governmental agencies, and non-profits offline on a daily basis. These so-called "distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are digital sieges in which an attacker causes thousands of hacked systems to hit a target with so much junk traffic that it falls over and remains unreachable by legitimate visitors. While DDoS attacks typically target a single Web site or Internet host, they often result in widespread collateral Internet disruption.
A great deal of DDoS activity on the Internet originates from so-called 'booter/stresser' services, which are essentially DDoS-for-hire services which allow even unsophisticated users to launch high-impact attacks. And as we will see, the incessant competition for profits in the blatantly illegal DDoS-for-hire industry can lead those involved down some very strange paths, indeed.
THE FIRST CLUES
The first clues to Anna-Senpai's identity didn't become clear until I understood that Mirai was just the latest incarnation of an IoT botnet family that has been in development and relatively broad use for nearly three years.
Earlier this summer, my site was hit with several huge attacks from a collection of hacked IoT systems compromised by a family of botnet code that served as a precursor to Mirai. The malware went by several names, including "Bashlite," "Gafgyt," "Qbot," "Remaiten," and "Torlus."
All of these related IoT botnet varieties infect new systems in a fashion similar to other well-known Internet worms — propagating from one infected host to another. And like those earlier Internet worms, sometimes the Internet scanning these systems perform to identify other candidates for inclusion into the botnet is so aggressive that it constitutes an unintended DDoS on the very home routers, Web cameras and DVRs that the bot code is trying to subvert and recruit into the botnet. This kind of self-defeating behavior will be familiar to those who recall the original Morris Worm, NIMDA, CODE RED, Welchia, Blaster and SQL Slammer disruptions of yesteryear.
Infected IoT devices constantly scan the Web for other IoT things to compromise, wriggling into devices that are protected by little more than insecure factory-default settings and passwords. The infected devices are then forced to participate in DDoS attacks (ironically, many of the devices most commonly infected by Mirai and similar IoT worms are security cameras).
Mirai's ancestors had so many names because each name corresponded to a variant that included new improvements over time. In 2014, a group of Internet hooligans operating under the banner "lelddos" very publicly used the code to launch large, sustained attacks that knocked many Web sites offline.
The most frequent target of the lelddos gang were Web servers used to host Minecraft, a wildly popular computer game sold by Microsoft that can be played from any device and on any Internet connection.
The object of Minecraft is to run around and build stuff, block by large pixelated block. That may sound simplistic and boring, but an impressive number of people positively adore this game – particularly pre-teen males. Microsoft has sold more than a 100 million copies of Minecraft, and at any given time there are over a million people playing it online. Players can build their own worlds, or visit a myriad other blocky realms by logging on to their favorite Minecraft server to play with friends.
Image: Minecraft.net
A large, successful Minecraft server with more than a thousand players logging on each day can easily earn the server's owners upwards of $50,000 per month, mainly from players renting space on the server to build their Minecraft worlds, and purchasing in-game items and special abilities.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top-earning Minecraft servers eventually attracted the attention of ne'er-do-wells and extortionists like the lelddos gang. Lelddos would launch a huge DDoS attack against a Minecraft server, knowing that the targeted Minecraft server owner was likely losing thousands of dollars for each day his gaming channel remained offline.
Adding urgency to the ordeal, many of the targeted server's loyal customers would soon find other Minecraft servers to patronize if they could not get their Minecraft fix at the usual online spot.
Robert Coelho is vice president of ProxyPipe, Inc., a San Francisco company that specializes in protecting Minecraft servers from attacks.
"The Minecraft industry is so competitive," Coelho said. "If you're a player, and your favorite Minecraft server gets knocked offline, you can switch to another server. But for the server operators, it's all about maximizing the number of players and running a large, powerful server. The more players you can hold on the server, the more money you make. But if you go down, you start to lose Minecraft players very fast — maybe for good."
In June 2014, ProxyPipe was hit with a 300 gigabit per second DDoS attack launched by lelddos, which had a penchant for publicly taunting its victims on Twitter just as it began launching DDoS assaults at the taunted.
The hacker group "lelddos" tweeted at its victims before launching huge DDoS attacks against them.
At the time, ProxyPipe was buying DDoS protection from Reston, Va. -based security giant Verisign. In a quarterly report published in 2014, Verisign called the attack the largest it had ever seen, although it didn't name ProxyPipe in the report – referring to it only as a customer in the media and entertainment business.
Verisign said the 2014 attack was launched by a botnet of more than 100,000 servers running on SuperMicro IPMI boards. Days before the huge attack on ProxyPipe, a security researcher published information about a vulnerability in the SuperMicro devices that could allow them to be remotely hacked and commandeered for these sorts of attacks.
THE CENTRALITY OF PROTRAF
Coelho recalled that in mid-2015 his company's Minecraft customers began coming under attack from a botnet made up of IoT devices infected with Qbot. He said the attacks were directly preceded by a threat made by a then-17-year-old Christopher "CJ" Sculti, Jr., the owner and sole employee of a competing DDoS protection company called Datawagon.
Datawagon also courted Minecraft servers as customers, and its servers were hosted on Internet space claimed by yet another Minecraft-focused DDoS protection provider — ProTraf Solutions.
Christopher "CJ" Sculti, Jr.
According to Coelho, ProTraf was trying to woo many of his biggest Minecraft server customers away from ProxyPipe. Coelho said in mid-2015, Sculti reached out to him on Skype and said he was getting ready to disable Coelho's Skype account. At the time, an exploit for a software weakness in Skype was being traded online, and this exploit could be used to remotely and instantaneously disable any Skype account.
Sure enough, Coelho recalled, his Skype account and two others used by co-workers were shut off just minutes after that threat, effectively severing a main artery of support for ProxyPipe's customers – many of whom were accustomed to communicating with ProxyPipe via Skype.
"CJ messaged me about five minutes before the DDoS started, saying he was going to disable my skype," Coelho said. "The scary thing about when this happens is you don't know if your Skype account has been hacked and under control of someone else or if it just got disabled."
Once ProxyPipe's Skype accounts were disabled, the company's servers were hit with a massive, constantly changing DDoS attack that disrupted ProxyPipe's service to its Minecraft server customers. Coelho said within a few days of the attack, many of ProxyPipe's most lucrative Minecraft servers had moved over to servers protected by ProTraf Solutions.
"In 2015, the ProTraf guys hit us offline tons, so a lot of our customers moved over to them," Coelho said. "We told our customers that we knew [ProTraf] were the ones doing it, but some of the customers didn't care and moved over to ProTraf anyway because they were losing money from being down."
I found Coelho's story fascinating because it eerily echoed the events leading up to my Sept. 2016 record 620 Gbps attack. I, too, was contacted via Skype by Sculti — on two occasions. The first was on July 7, 2015, when Sculti reached out apropos of nothing to brag about scanning the Internet for IoT devices running default usernames and passwords, saying he had uploaded some kind of program to more than a quarter-million systems that his scans found.
Here's a snippet of that conversation:
21:37 CJ: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/crooks-use-hacked-routers-to-aid-cyberheists/
21:37 CJ: vulnerable routers are a HUGE issue
21:37 CJ: a few months ago
21:37 CJ: I scanned the internet with a few sets of defualt logins
21:37 CJ: for telnet
21:37 CJ: and I was able to upload and execute a binary
21:38 CJ: on 250k devices
21:38 CJ: most of which were routers
21:38 Brian Krebs: o_0
The second time I heard from Sculti on Skype was Sept. 20, 2016 — the day of my 620 Gbps attack. Sculti was angry over a story I'd just published that mentioned his name, and he began rather saltily maligning the reputation of a source and friend who had helped me with that story.
Indignant on behalf of my source and annoyed at Sculti's rant, I simply blocked his Skype account from communicating with mine and went on with my day. Just minutes after that conversation, however, my Skype account was flooded with thousands of contact requests from compromised or junk Skype accounts, making it virtually impossible to use the software for making phone calls or instant messaging.
Six hours after that Sept. 20 conversation with Sculti, the huge 620 Gbps DDoS attack commenced on this site. Continue reading →
Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes
Adobe and Microsoft on Tuesday each released security updates for software installed on hundreds of millions of devices. Adobe issued an update for Flash Player and for Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft released just four updates to plug some 15 security holes in Windows and related software.
Microsoft's batch includes updates for Windows, Office and Microsoft Edge (Redmond's replacement for Internet Explorer). Also interesting is that January 2017 is the last month Microsoft plans to publish individual bulletins for each patch. From now on, some of the data points currently in the individual updates will be lumped into a "Security Updates Guide" published with each Patch Tuesday.
This change mirrors a shift in the way Microsoft is deploying updates. Last year Microsoft stopped making individual security updates available for home users, giving those users instead a single monthly security rollup that includes all available security updates.
Windows users and anyone else with Flash installed will need to make sure that Adobe Flash Player is updated (or suitably bludgeoned, more on that in a bit). Adobe's Flash update addresses 13 flaws in the widely-installed browser plugin. The patch brings Flash to v. 24.0.0.194 for Windows, Mac and Linux users alike. Continue reading →
Extortionists Wipe Thousands of Databases, Victims Who Pay Up Get Stiffed
Tens of thousands of personal and possibly proprietary databases that were left accessible to the public online have just been wiped from the Internet, replaced with ransom notes demanding payment for the return of the files. Adding insult to injury, it appears that virtually none of the victims who have paid the ransom have gotten their files back because multiple fraudsters are now wise to the extortion attempts and are competing to replace each other's ransom notes.
At the eye of this developing data destruction maelstrom is an online database platform called MongoDB. Tens of thousands of organizations use MongoDB to store data, but it is easy to misconfigure and leave the database exposed online. If installed on a server with the default settings, for example, MongoDB allows anyone to browse the databases, download them, or even write over them and delete them.
Shodan, a specialized search engine designed to find things that probably won't be picked up by Google, lists the number of open, remotely accessible MongDB databases available as of Jan. 10, 2017.
This blog has featured several stories over the years about companies accidentally publishing user data via incorrectly configured MongoDB databases. In March 2016, for example, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that Verizon Enterprise Solutions managed to leak the contact information on some 1.5 million customers because of a publicly accessible MongoDB installation.
Point is, this is a known problem, and almost once a week some security researcher is Tweeting that he's discovered another huge open MongoDB database. There are simple queries that anyone can run via search engines like Shodan that will point to all of the open MongoDB databases out there at any given time. For example, the latest query via Shodan (see image above) shows that there are more than 52,000 publicly accessible MongoDB databases on the Internet right now. The largest share of open MongoDB databases are here in the United States.
Normally, when one runs a query on Shodan to list all available MongoDB databases, what one gets in return is a list of variously-named databases, and many databases with default filenames like "local."
But when researcher Victor Gevers ran that same query earlier this week, he noticed that far too many of the database listings returned by the query had names like "readme," "readnow," "encrypted" and "readplease." Inside each of these databases is exactly one file: a database file that includes a contact email address and/or a bitcoin address and a payment demand.
Researcher Niall Merrigan, a solutions architect for French consulting giant Cap Gemini, has been working with Gevers to help victims on his personal time, and to help maintain a public document that's live-chronicling the damage from the now widespread extortion attack. Merrigan said it seems clear that multiple actors are wise to the scam because if you wait a few minutes after running the Shodan query and then re-run the query, you'll find the same Internet addresses that showed up in the database listings from the previous query, but you'll also notice that many now have a different database title and a new ransom note.
Merrigan and Gevers are maintaining a public Google Drive document (read-only) that is tracking the various victims and ransom demands. Merrigan said it appears that at least 29,000 MongoDB databases that were previously published online are now erased. Worse, hardly anyone who's paid the ransom demands has yet received their files back.
A screen shot of the Google Drive document that Merrigan is maintaining to track the various ransom campaigns. This tab lists victims by industry. As we can see, many have paid the ransom but none have reported receiving their files back.
"It's like the kidnappers keep delivering the ransom notes, but you don't know who has the actual original data," Merrigan said. "That's why we're tracking the notes, so that if we see the [databases] are being exfiltrated by the thieves, we can know the guys who should actually get paid if they want to get their data back." Continue reading →
Krebs's Immutable Truths About Data Breaches
I've had several requests for a fresh blog post to excerpt something that got crammed into the corner of a lengthy story published here Sunday: A list of immutable truths about data breaches, cybersecurity and the consequences of inaction.
Here's the excerpt requested from yesterday's story:
"There are some fairly simple, immutable truths that each of us should keep in mind, truths that apply equally to political parties, organizations and corporations alike:
-If you connect it to the Internet, someone will try to hack it.
-If what you put on the Internet has value, someone will invest time and effort to steal it.
-Even if what is stolen does not have immediate value to the thief, he can easily find buyers for it.
-The price he secures for it will almost certainly be a tiny slice of its true worth to the victim.
-Organizations and individuals unwilling to spend a small fraction of what those assets are worth to secure them against cybercrooks can expect to eventually be relieved of said assets."
They may not be complete, but as a set of truisms these tenets probably will age pretty well. After all, taken as a whole they are practically a model Cybercriminal Code of Ethics, or a cybercrook's social contract. Continue reading →
DNI: Putin Led Cyber, Propaganda Effort to Elect Trump, Denigrate Clinton
Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a massive propaganda and cyber operation aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton and getting Donald Trump elected, the top U.S. intelligence agencies said in a remarkable yet unshocking report released on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tours RT facilities. Image: DNI
The 25-page dossier from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stopped short of saying the Russians succeeded at influencing the outcome of the election, noting that the report did not attempt to make an assessment on that front. But it makes the case that "Russia's intelligence services conducted cyber operations against targets associated with the 2016 US presidential election, including targets associated with both major US political parties."
"We assess with high confidence that Russian military intelligence (General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate or GRU) used the Guccifer 2.0 persona and DCLeaks.com to release US victim data obtained in cyber operations publicly and in exclusives to media outlets and relayed material to WikiLeaks," the DNI report reads.
The report is a quick and fascinating read. One example: It includes a fairly detailed appendix which concludes that the U.S.-based but Kremlin-financed media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) is little more than a propaganda machine controlled by Russian intelligence agencies.
"Moscow's influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or 'trolls,'" reads the report.
The DNI report is remarkable for several reasons. First, it publicly accuses Russia's President of trying to meddle with the U.S. election and to hack both political parties. Also, as The New York Times observed, it offers "a virtually unheard-of, real-time revelation by the American intelligence agencies that undermined the legitimacy of the president who is about to direct them."
However, those who've been clamoring for more technical evidence to support a conclusion that Russian intelligence agencies were behind the phishing, malware attacks and email leaks at The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton campaign likely will be unmoved by this report. Those details will remain safely hidden from public view in the classified version of the report.
Last week, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint report (PDF) on some of the malware and Internet resources used in the DNC intrusion. But many experts criticized it as a poorly-written, jumbled collection of threat indicators and digital clues that didn't all quite lead where they should.
Others were perplexed by the high confidence level the agencies assigned to the findings in their unclassified report, noting that neither the FBI nor DHS examined the DNC hard drives that were compromised in the break-in (that work was done by private security firm Crowdstrike).
Former black-hat hacker turned Wired and Daily Beast contributing editor Kevin Poulsen slammed the FBI/DHS report as "so aimless that it muddies the clear public evidence that Russia hacked the Democratic Party to affect the election, and so wrong it enables the Trump-friendly conspiracy theorists trying to explain away that evidence."
Granted, trying to reconstruct a digital crime scene absent some of the most important pieces of evidence is a bit like attempting to assemble a jigsaw puzzle with only half of the pieces. But as digital forensics and security expert Jonanthan Zdziarksi noted via Twitter last night, good old fashioned spying and human intelligence seems to have played a bigger role in pinning the DNC hack on the Russians.
"The DNI report subtly implied that more weight was put on our intelligence coming from espionage operations than on cyber warfare," Zdziarski wrote. "As someone who's publicly called out the FBI over misleading the public and the court system, I believe the DNI report to be reliable. I also believe @CrowdStrike's findings to be reliable based on the people there and their experience with threat intelligence."
Key findings from the DNI report.
Stolen Passwords Fuel Cardless ATM Fraud
Some financial institutions are now offering so-called "cardless ATM" transactions that allow customers to withdraw cash using nothing more than their mobile phones. But as the following story illustrates, this new technology also creates an avenue for thieves to quickly and quietly convert stolen customer bank account usernames and passwords into cold hard cash. Worse still, fraudulent cardless ATM withdrawals may prove more difficult for customers to dispute because they place the victim at the scene of the crime.
A portion of the third rejection letter that Markula received from Chase about her $2,900 fraud claim.
San Francisco resident Kristina Markula told KrebsOnSecurity that it wasn't until shortly after a vacation in Cancun, Mexico in early November 2016 that she first learned that Chase Bank even offered cardless ATM access. Markula said that while she was still in Mexico she tried to view her bank balance using a Chase app on her smartphone, but that the app blocked her from accessing her account.
Markula said she thought at the time that Chase had blocked her from using the app because the request came from an unusual location. After all, she didn't have an international calling or data plan and was trying to access the account via Wi-Fi at her hotel in Mexico.
Upon returning to the United States, Markula called the number on the back of her card and was told she needed to visit the nearest Chase bank branch and present two forms of identification. At a Chase branch in San Francisco, she handed the teller a California driver's license and her passport. The branch manager told her that someone had used her Chase online banking username and password to add a new mobile phone number to her account, and then move $2,900 from her savings to her checking account.
The manager told Markula that whoever made the change then requested that a new mobile device be added to the account, and changed the contact email address for the account. Very soon after, that same new mobile device was used to withdraw $2,900 in cash from her checking account at the Chase Bank ATM in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
A handful of U.S. banks, including Chase, have deployed ATMs that are capable of dispensing cash without requiring an ATM card. In the case of Chase ATMs, the customer approaches the cash machine with a smart phone that is already associated with a Chase account. Associating an account with the mobile app merely requires the customer to supply the app with their online banking username and password.
Users then tell the Chase app how much they want to withdraw, and the app creates a unique 7-digit code that needs to be entered at the Chase ATM (instead of numeric code, some banks offering cardless ATM withdrawals will have the app display a QR code that needs to be read by a scanner on the ATM). Assuming the code checks out, the machine dispenses the requested cash and the transaction is complete. At no time is the Chase customer asked to enter his or her 4-digit ATM card PIN.
Most financial institutions will limit traditional ATM customers to withdrawing $300-$600 per transaction, but some banks have set cardless transaction limits at much higher amounts under certain circumstances. For example, at the time Markula's fraud occurred, the limit was set at $3,000 for withdrawals during normal bank business hours and made at Chase ATMs located at Chase branches.
Markula said the bank employees helped her close the account and file a claim to dispute the withdrawal. She said the teller and the bank manager reviewed her passport and confirmed that the disputed transaction took place during the time between which her passport was stamped by U.S. and Mexican immigration authorities. However, Markula said Chase repeatedly denied her claims.
"We wanted to thank you for providing your information while we thoroughly researched your dispute," Chase's customer claims department wrote in the third rejection letter sent to Markula, dated January 5, 2017. "We confirmed that the disputed charges were correct and we will not be making an adjustment to your account."
Markula said she was dumbfounded by the rejection letter because the last time she spoke with a fraud claims manager at Chase, the manager told her that the transaction had all of the hallmarks of an account takeover.
"I'm pretty frustrated at the process so far," said Markula, who shared with this author a detailed timeline of events before and after the disputed transaction. "Not captured in this timeline are the countless phone calls to the fraud department which is routed overseas. The time it takes to reach someone and poor communication seems designed to make one want to give up."
KrebsOnSecurity contacted Chase today about Markula's case. Chase spokesman Mike Fusco said Markula's rejection letter was incorrect, and that further investigation revealed she had been victimized by a group of a half-dozen fraudsters who were caught using the above-described technique to empty out Chase bank accounts.
Fusco forwarded this author a link to a Fox28 story about six men from Miami, Fla. who were arrested late last year in Columbus, Ohio in connection with what authorities there called a "multi-state crime spree" targeting Chase accounts. Continue reading →
The FTC's Internet of Things (IoT) Challenge
One of the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2016 was the surge in online attacks caused by poorly-secured "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices such as Internet routers, security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and smart appliances. Many readers here have commented with ideas about how to counter vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software in IoT devices, so why not pitch your idea for money? Who knows, you could win up to $25,000 in a new contest put on by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Electronics giant LG said today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that all of its appliances from now on will have Wi-Fi built in and be connected to the cloud. Image: Mashable
The FTC's IoT Home Inspector Challenge is seeking ideas for a tool of some sort that would address the burgeoning IoT mess. The agency says it's offering a cash prize of up to $25,000 for the best technical solution, with up to $3,000 available for as many as three honorable mention winner(s). Continue reading →

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Amazing Spider-Man #99: The Golden Age Was A Political Age
Date: August 7, 2019Author: Steve 1 Comment
Welcome to Spider-Man Roulette! Shelfdust's Patreon backers were asked to pick a number at random – and now I'm going to write about whichever corresponding issue of "Amazing Spider-Man" they chose! This issue was picked by Patreon backer Matt O' Keefe, who chose number 99 for the roulette!
By Steve Morris
When Stan Lee passed away, some of the many tributes included his interest in highlighting social issues and inequality, and the way he would insert his own politics into comics to try and push readers on progressive stances. At the time I thought people were overstating Lee's politics a little, having not read that many of his older comics – not to say I thought he was a conservative, more that it would be surprising for him to be anything more than a person of his time. I figured he did make some stances, but that you wouldn't expect him to, for example, spend an issue of his flagship series writing about the unfair treatment of prisoners in the US.
So Amazing Spider-Man #99 came as a huge surprise.
Now, in our current climate, there are a lot of people – y'know, comicsgaters – who would suggest politics don't come into Golden Age Comics at any point, which demonstrates again why it's important to actually read comics if you want to try and talk with authority about them. This is an incredibly political issue, not least for its time, and the core message here is as up to date and current as you could possibly imagine. This is Stan on a soapbox, and it was startling to me how loudly he was able to shout.
The issue has the classic framing story for Spider-Man, in that he needs money to take Gwen Stacy out on a date. To get money he needs work from J. Jonah Jameson at The Bugle – who, wouldn't you have guessed, is just at that moment trying to cover a breaking news story happening elsewhere in the city, and needs himself a photographer immediately. It's a great way to throw Spider-Man into any story the creative team want, because as the Editor-in-Chief Jameson can send the character off to cover any kind of breaking story. If they want to do a superhero story, then a villain can be on the loose – but if they want to do something a little more realistic and topical, they can set that up just as easily.
And in this case, that's exactly what they want to do. There's a prison riot taking place, Spider-Man needs money, so Jameson asks him to go take photos over at the prison. Simple as that, off we go, time for another classic Spider-Man story. It's a perfect framing device for delivering a 22-page comic book story.
However, the issue quickly starts to tell the unexpected story, unfolding it in the classical storytelling style of the medium. Spider-Man starts off by finding a minion, capturing him, and asking him for more details on the story, just as he's done a hundred (or 98) times before. This particular minion, however, has a bit of a different story to tell: he's genuine, and the reasons for his decision to riot come across as fair and legitimate. Even if the means of protest is disruptive, the comic suggests, the protest itself is worthy. Reading the issue now, my thought was that this would probably not lead to anything different, and that Spidey would ignore the concerns and head after the ringleader of the breakout, just as he's done 98 times before.
He does end up doing that… but in a different way to the one you'd expect.
When it's revealed that the man leading the riot has the warden at gunpoint, Spider-Man is straight on the scene, and we're all set to forget the complaints of the prisoner in favour of seeing the convict get stopped by the hero. But what actually happens is that Spider-Man hears the convict talking whilst approaching the room, and realises that only two or three of the rioters are doing so for their own benefit – they've whipped everyone else up into a protest as a distraction, but the reasons for the protest are completely legitimate. Later, the warden goes on to state that the jails are an issue, and that the prisoners' rights need to be looked at more closely – from every level, Spider-Man (and the reader) and being told that this is an actual real-world problem, and it doesn't matter if some people are jumping on the cause in order to score their own points. What matters is that the issue needs to be made public, so people can deal with it.
From this point onwards, every goofy plot development you might expect is actually twisted in order to serve this core moral message which the creative team want to emphasise to readers. Spider-Man somehow gets booked onto the Johnny Carson show as a guest, which he accepts as a way to make a little extra money – but once he does go on, and after he's played along to the crowd in order to prove he's the real Spider-Man, what does he do? He delivers a speech to the public about the prison system, and the reform which is needed. His speech doesn't miraculously save the day (I mean, it's an issue even today), and it's notable that Lee cuts the scene by having Spider-Man chased off by the cops before he can finish his speech. Authority never likes it when someone disrupts the system, after all. The TV station puts on a soap advert instead.
The speech itself tips to a lot of issues which remain issues today: overcrowding, budget cuts, low staffing, as well as issues like young offenders being put into jails alongside people with life sentences – essentially bringing them into contact with organised crime. The bail system gets mentioned, and the long waiting periods during which people have to sit in jail even if innocent. Most clearly, he ends by saying that crime and justice are everyone's problem. Johnny Carson, still in the room and not stopping the speech, has stopped becoming the focus. We're now talking about social justice.
Throughout this issue are small affirmations, and it's sometimes hard to note which are intended and which ones aren't. I couldn't help but notice that when the ringleaders of the riot are exposed as being frauds taking advantage of the situation, every one of the innocent people roped into the riot is African-American.
Artist Gil Kane specifically gives us an overhead scene so we can see three white prisoners holding two African-American prisoners as hostages along with the warden. They're essentially used as human shields as well. Once Spider-Man busts the escape attempt, the African-American prisoners are notably put front and centre as the two people who defuse the riot by telling their fellow prisoners that it's all a con. They then also praise Spider-Man – making it clear that they are the audience surrogate here. Again, there's an intersectional acknowledgement in the story which builds up the central issue, noting how this affects people differently based on their race.
Of course, that does raise the point that there are probably more black people in this issue than in most other comics being published that month. This raises its own concerns.
Everything here is completely wrapped into the Spider-Man standard and it's still that goofy Stan Lee scripting style, backed with Kane's solid and traditional approach to the sequencing and storytelling. This is Spider-Man told in the Mighty Marvel Manner, but it's worth reminding that it's a manner which does have that political side, and does want to use the medium to convey a message. It's heartening to see, and a reminder of just what sort of heart Stan Lee invested into his stories.
Amazing Spider-Man #99: A Day in the Life Of…
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Gil Kane
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Letterer: Artie Simek
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Captain Away says:
Good review, but Spider-Man started in the Silver Age of comics, so this wouldn't be a Golden Age comic. It's probably a bit debatable on where the ages actually begin and end, but this issue would have already been in the 70s and I've never seen anyone consider the golden age lasting into the 70s. Some would even call this a "Bronze Age" comic.


Civil servants at NASA's Kennedy Space Center will receive retroactive pay this week after a 35-day shutdown but the fate of the thousands of center contractors who went without pay is unclear.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine fielded questions from employees across the country at a town hall Tuesday, addressing the nearly 90 percent workforce shortage due to the partial government shutdown.
Because there are different types of contracts that may or may not have been paid in advanced, retroactive pay for contract workers is on a case-by-case basis. "In some cases, people will get retroactive pay, in other cases, people will not," said Bridenstine.
Congressman Bill Posey, who was a former contract worker during the Apollo program at KSC, sent a letter to appropriations committee earlier this month calling for equitable treatment of all contract employees as lawmakers draft appropriations bills. Posey's office estimates nearly 11,000 of KSC's 13,000 person workforce is employed as a contractor.
Bills filed by Democrats in the House and Senate aim to provide lost wages up to $1,400 per week to federal contractors who were impacted by the partial government shutdown.
In a statement, Florida's Republican Senator Rick Scott's office said there was no reason for the government to shutdown and that Scott is committed to making changes for Florida families. A spokesperson for the Senator said he will "review any legislation put in front of him to right the wrongs caused by Washington's dysfunction." Republican Senator Marco Rubio could not be reached for comment.


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First and foremost, it's not every day that an NBA player calls out his head coach so publicly. Former Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau was a taskmaster, and the relationship between his players, including Butler, frayed last season before he was fired at the end of the season. But despite all the friction, no player ever called out Thibodeau publicly. They couldn't stand him at times because of his domineering ways, but they always respected him because of his work ethic. Twenty-five games into Hoiberg's tenure, he has to face the reality that his best player just called him out on a public stage.
While it has been clear to many around the team that the Bulls are struggling to adjust to Hoiberg's style after five years under Thibodeau, that storyline, at least in the short term, will ride shotgun next to this one: How will Butler's comments be received within the organization?
It's possible that Butler might face some disciplinary action for calling out his coach in the media. But it's also possible that Butler was speaking not just for himself, but for other teammates who also feel that Hoiberg's style isn't working for them. Either way, the foundation for Butler's future as the face and voice of the Bulls will either be cemented or crushed by his comments on Saturday. They might serve as a turning point for a player who desperately wants to be seen as the focal point of the organization — a final vocal push to get out from underneath Derrick Rose's long shadow.
Or, Butler's comments may become the beginning of the end for a talented player who bit off more than he can chew within the organization. To say that Hoiberg has the full support of the front office would be an understatement. Bulls general manager Gar Forman and executive VP John Paxson have supported Hoiberg both publicly and privately at every turn. He signed a five-year, $25 million contract six months ago and is entrenched as the coach for the future.
But that's where this saga gets tricky for the Bulls. Butler was supposed to be the future king of the roster, the player they would build around, after signing a five-year extension worth over $90 million in July. Along with Hoiberg, Butler was supposed to be at the forefront of everything the Bulls did. Now, those questions will be left under a microscope for the rest of the basketball world to see.
He fractured his kneecap in Game 1 of June's NBA Finals after fighting knee problems throughout the postseason. The Cavs and Irving remained cautious and conservative during his rehab. He was finally cleared for full practices a couple of weeks ago and he kept building for this moment.
It has been clear for about a week Irving would make his debut against the 76ers. Realistically it's an easier opponent to begin against since they're the worst team in the league and it will serve as a way for Irving to ease back into competitive basketball. He'll be on a minutes restriction to start, but doesn't anticipate problems falling back in rhythm with his old teammates.
The Cavs went 17-7 in Irving's absence and remain atop the East despite not having a full roster for any game this season. They ended the Oklahoma City Thunder's six-game winning streak Thursday night despite missing Irving, Mo Williams and Iman Shumpert.
That just reiterated to Irving a team that finds ways to win regardless of who is on the floor.
After Saturday's practice in Miami, Plumlee clarified that he wasn't taking a shot at Blazers coach Terry Stotts and his offensive system, but rather pointing out the Blazers have to do more than just shoot threes.
When the notion of broadening the offense was later brought up to Stotts, it was apparent the coach had heard Plumlee's suggestion.
"Is that Mason's interview?'' Stotts interjected before the question was finished.
When told it was, Stotts had an answer ready.
Plumlee's answer in Orlando was generated from a question asking whether the Blazers have figured out their identity. He noted on Saturday that his answer Friday suggested the Blazers could make defense one of their traits.
Plumlee also noted that he could help the Blazers in forging a more well-rounded offensive identity by becoming more consistent inside. He pointed to his last two offensive games –- 4-for-14 at Oklahoma City and 2-for-6 at Orlando – as evidence.
When they play well together they can beat anyone in the league and when they don't, they can get "exposed," to use Stevens' word from the Atlanta loss. One can look at their net ratings and other exotic measures and say that they've underachieved a bit, but it's hard to look at their roster and reach the same conclusion.
The Celtics have a lot of solid players, but with the exception of [Isaiah] Thomas, they lack the kind of scorers who can take over games. Thomas has been great this season, but he's the only one who is truly capable of creating his own shot in their halfcourt offense and his size limitations are an issue when teams switch taller defenders on him in the closing moments.
That's a solid team most nights, and Stevens has consistently said that he's happy with the team's progress. He hinted on Saturday that a lineup change may be coming and one possibility would be limiting David Lee's minutes in favor of Jonas Jerebko and playing more smallball. Lee is the only regular with a negative net rating and the C's have been more than five points better when he's off the floor.
But that's tinkering on the margins. If the Celtics are going to move beyond this stage then Danny Ainge will have to make a move. There's been speculation for months — years even — about Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, but that seems unlikely at this juncture. There has never been universal agreement in the team's front office that Cousins is the player to go all in for and it's not even certain that Cousins would be available at all.
A knockdown shooter would definitely help matters, considering their woeful 33 percent mark from behind the arc, but there aren't many of them available right now. Denver's Danilo Gallinari, for example, can't be traded until February. Not that the Nuggets have shown any interest in moving him either. The NBA's version of parity has produced a number of interesting side effects and one of them is the notion that with more teams competing for playoff spots, there are fewer sellers than usual.
As it stands, the Celtics' best chance to land a game-changing player is in this summer's draft where they own Brooklyn's pick without protection as the latest installment of the KG/Paul Pierce heist. In addition to their own choice, they also have Dallas' first round selection (top-7 protected) and Minnesota's first rounder if it falls out of the top 12 picks (doubtful, but not out of the realm of possibility). They've also got a bunch of second rounders with protections too numerous and complex to list here. Suffice to say, they've got a lot of picks coming and more on the way in the future from Brooklyn and Memphis.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: Look out, rest of the NBA! LeBron James has a new obsession and all you can do while he pursue it is to line up and stand idly by: he's working on his free throws. … No one needs to worry about the L.A. Clippers, according to point guard Chris Paul, except maybe the Clippers and their fans. … Kevin Durant, an unabashed Kobe Bryant fan, had a whole new batch of raves about the Lakers guard after their dinner together Friday night in OKC. … Trevor Ariza was just a local kid when he met Bryant, who eventually would become a teammate and rival, and he lauds the Lakers' retiring star as well. … The Miami Heat have taken strides this season but aren't quite ready to say "kumbiya!" … John Wall had to play a whole bunch of minutes to get Washington past Charlotte, but if the Wizards aren't careful, Wall might join their long list of injured players.
Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson developed concussion-like symptoms after Wednesday night's series-clinching Game 5 win over the Houston Rockets, the team announced.
The injury occurred when Ariza, caught in the air on a shot fake, hit the right side of Thompson's head with his right knee. Ariza was called for a personal foul on the play.
Blood coming out of the cut prevented Thompson from checking back in to the game upon his return to the Warriors' bench. He ended up needing three stitches to close the wound.
"He was definitely shaken up. We'll evaluate him tomorrow. It was a bizarre night for him," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said in his postgame news conference before Thompson's concussion-like symptoms were revealed. "Huge first half that really got us going, and then I left him in too long, he got his fourth foul and I thought I'd buy one possession, see if we could get him a shot, and when he picks up his fifth and when I do bring him back, he immediately gets hurt and out for the rest of the night.
SAN FRANCISCO — Trevor Ariza shrugged and chuckled at Tuesday's shootaround when told that Stephen Curry said the Western Conference finals might get "chippy" based on the history of the Rockets and Warriors in the regular season.
The Kia MVP Curry was referring to the last meeting between the two teams on Jan. 21 at Oracle Arena when the Warriors completed a 4-0 sweep of the Rockets that included a third-quarter incident with Ariza. Curry didn't like the way Ariza bumped him as he ran up court and went after the Rockets forward before teammate Draymond Green wrapped him in a bearhug.
Ariza was slapped with a technical foul — one of five in the game — and was later fined $2,500.
For his part, Ariza refused to even get caught up in pre-game verbal jousting with Curry.
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Southwest Division comprises more than half of the Western Conference playoff bracket. So two of them have to play each other.
The Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets both made changes to their roster in December, bringing the enigmatic Rajon Rondo and Josh Smith from the Eastern Conference. A month after they added Rondo to their mix, the Mavs were 30-13, a game ahead of the Rockets.
But things went downhill from there. The Mavs led the league in offensive efficiency at the time they traded for Rondo, but scored almost 10 fewer points per 100 possessions after the trade than they did before it. Their defense did improve some, but not enough to make up for the offensive drop-off.
The Rockets, meanwhile, survived a myriad of injuries to win the division and finish second in the West. They're missing two starters and don't have Dwight Howard at 100 percent, but have gotten by with a top-10 defense and an MVP candidate. That could be enough to get through an opponent that has had issues on both ends of the floor at one point or another.
Here are some statistical notes to get you ready for Rockets-Mavs, with links to let you dive in and explore more.
Attempted 39.3 percent of their shots from 3-point range, the highest mark in NBA history by a wide margin. The previous high was 35.4 percent, by the 2012-13 New York Knicks.
One of two offenses (Cleveland's was the other) that ranked in the top 10 in both effective field goal percentage and offensive rebounding percentage.
James Harden led the league with 576 isolation possessions, according to Synergy. At 1.01 points per possession, he ranked fifth among 58 players with at least 100 isolation possessions.
Harden shot 13-for-25 from 3-point range in clutch-time (score within five points in the last five minutes), the best mark among players who attempted at least 20 clutch threes.
For the second straight season (and with two different teams), Trevor Ariza led the league in corner 3-pointers (see below). Teammate Jason Terry ranked third and Harden had almost 50 more assists on corner threes (131) than any other player. LeBron James ranked second with 82.
Only team that ranked in the top five in both turnover rate and opponent turnover rate.
Grabbed just 72.2 percent of available defensive rebounds, the second lowest rate in the league and the lowest among playoff teams.
Outscored their opponents by 6.4 points per 100 possessions before the All-Star break and have been outscored by 2.5 since the break. That drop-off of 8.9 points per 100 possessions was the biggest in the league.
Tyson Chandler scored 1.41 points per possession as a roll man, the best mark among players with at least 100 roll-man possessions, according to Synergy.
Amar'e Stoudemire was one of five players that shot better than 50 percent on at least 100 shots out of post-ups, according to Synergy.
Season series: Rockets won 3-1 (2-0 in Houston).
Dwight Howard only played in the fourth meeting, and was a minus-12 in 18 minutes. The Rockets were a plus-19 in the other 30 minutes.
The Rockets averaged 23.3 fast break points in the four meetings, their highest mark against any opponent.
Monta Ellis shot 2-for-19 from 3-point range, his worst mark against any Western Conference opponent.
Dirk Nowitzki shot better each game against the Rockets: 4-for-18 (22 percent) in the first meeting, 4-for-11 (36 percent) in the second meeting, 6-for-13 (46 percent) in the third meeting, and 7-for-11 (64 percent) in the fourth meeting.
Over the last three meetings (which took place after the Mavs acquired Rajon Rondo), the Mavs were a minus-11 in 78 minutes with Rondo on the floor and a plus-10 in 66 minutes with Rondo on the bench.
The Houston Rockets' injury issues continue. Just days after getting Dwight Howard back from a 26-game absence with a knee injury comes the news that point guard Patrick Beverley is going to miss the remainder of the season after having surgery on his left wrist.
Rockets MVP candidate James Harden serves as the Rockets' facilitator and catalyst routinely. But Beverley's work as a defender will no doubt be missed. The Rockets also have depth at the position in the form of veterans Jason Terry and Pablo Prigioni.
Rockets guard Pat Beverley has opted to have surgery to repair ligaments in his left wrist injured last week in Indianapolis, a person with knowledge of the decision said.
The surgery will force Beverley to miss the remainder of the season, including the post-season regardless of how far the Rockets advance in the playoffs.
The Rockets' starting point guard the past two seasons, Beverley has had multiple injuries, struggling through last season's playoffs with a knee injury and going out this season after two games with a hamstring injury.
Beverley will be a free agent after the season, his third since the Rockets signed him in January 2012 as a free agent playing in Russia.
With Beverley out, the Rockets have started Jason Terry, going 9-0 in games Terry has started. He has split time at the point position, with the Rockets often using Trevor Ariza, Corey Brewer or rookie Nick Johnson to match up with opposing point guards.
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"I just got built-up frustration," said Rondo, who has had a couple of long individual meetings with Carlisle since their blowup. "I take a lot of the blame for what I've been doing on the court, but just a little frustrated. The most important thing is communication with Coach. I've talked to a lot of the coaches, I've talked to a lot of staff members.
Rondo, a four-time All-Star who arrived in Dallas on Dec. 18 as the featured player in a blockbuster trade with the Boston Celtics, has a reputation for being difficult to coach. He frequently butted heads with Doc Rivers in Boston, but the Celtics won a title and advanced to another NBA Finals during their time together.
"I've been in this situation before," Rondo said, chuckling. "Everyone's personality is different. The personality and the DNA is different.
Rondo declined to discuss how play-calling responsibilities would be handled going forward. Carlisle has handled the vast majority of play-calling, which bothered Rondo, a nine-year veteran known for his basketball intelligence.
Carlisle, who stressed the importance of Rondo to the Mavs after the suspension was announced Wednesday, said he is done discussing the incident with Rondo.
The off-court camaraderie didn't remedy their on-court ailments. A night later, they were dreadful in a loss to a team they dismantled by 35 points last month. The loss was the Wizards' 11th in 13 games and 13th in their past 17 and could leave them in sixth place in the Eastern Conference depending on the Milwaukee Bucks' fate against the Los Angeles Lakers late Friday night.
Washington entered the night averaging a league-low 15 free throw attempts and shooting 23.3 percent from beyond the three-point line over its past five games. Without Bradley Beal (fibula), Paul Pierce (knee) and Kris Humphries (groin) available, the trend continued.
When the Wizards (33-26) last played in Philadelphia on March 1 of last year, Trevor Ariza, now a member of the Houston Rockets, made eight three-pointers and scored 40 points. On Friday, Washington made just 4 of its 17 three-point attempts (23.5 percent) and scored 39 second-half points.
The Wizards shot a paltry 32.3 percent from the floor and attempted 12 fewer free throws than Philadelphia. The 76ers were held to 35 percent shooting but outscored Washington by 28 points from the three-point arc and free throw line.
For his part, Noah wasn't biting on how much fun he was having in his old role. He discussed how the Bulls run a read-and-react offense and try to find the open man.
Noah's offensive game has taken a back seat to Pau Gasol's throughout the season. Now that Noah is back to feeling like himself as he continues to shake off the lingering effects of offseason knee surgery, it's going to be interesting to see how his game responds once Gasol and Rose are back on the floor. In the meantime, Noah, like the rest of his teammates, is just hopeful Rose will be back sooner than later.
As D'Antoni summed up succinctly, without a large amount of data available to essentially prove that an 82-game schedule significantly puts the league's players at risk, the financial incentive not to touch that magic number of 82 will remain too strong. And Celtics assistant GM Mike Zarren echoed those remarks.
Those are realistic perspectives, but they're ones that come from a coach and a member of the front office.
On the player side, Shane Battier came up with a number of games that he believes would be ideal — not only to protect the athletes, but also to make the games that are played much more compelling.
"Personally, I think a 60-game season would be perfect," Battier said. "Every game matters more. You can't sleepwalk through a few weeks of the season — it does happen — and then all of a sudden wake up near the All-Star break and turn it on. Fans just want to see the best basketball players in the world at their highest level going head-to-head.
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Three-point attempts have been trending up for a while now. But the Houston Rockets have taken things to a new level this season.
Houston has attempted 42.2 percent of its shots from 3-point range, the highest rate in NBA history by a wide margin.
Though three-time Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard has missed 11 of their 21 games, the Rockets' defense (ranked No. 2 through Wednesday) is more responsible for their 16-5 record than their offense. But their 3-point shooting makes them always tough to guard. And when Howard returns, their offense should climb from 20th in the league toward the top 10.
The video above is the latest installment "One Stat, One Play," featuring a fun play that results in one of Ariza's 3s from the left corner.
With Howard hoping to return for Saturday's game against the Nuggets, we may be seeing more of that play soon. In the meantime, you can watch a compilation of it here.
Houston visits the Sacramento Kings in the second game of TNT's doubleheader (10:30 p.m. ET) on Thursday.
Corey Brewer is averaging 9.8 points and 1.4 assists in nine games this season.
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Minnesota Timberwolves are one of those teams (see Nuggets, Denver) with a lot of useful players that aren't necessarily being put to good use.
Corey Brewer has been playing behind Kevin Martin and Andrew Wiggins on the wing, but has played the fifth-most minutes on the team through nine games. He's a useful player on a good contract, getting paid $4.7 million this season with a player option for $4.9 million next season.
There are a lot of contenders who could use perimeter defense and it appears that the Wolves are taking calls, knowing that they're not going to remain competitive in the Western Conference with Ricky Rubio sidelined indefinitely with a sprained left ankle.
ESPN's Marc Stein reports that Minnesota is in "active" discussions with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets regarding Brewer.
The Minnesota Timberwolves, fresh off heavy back-to-back losses in New Orleans and Dallas and in the latest indication of their growing focus on the future, are in active trade discussions with multiple contending teams pursuing veteran swingman Corey Brewer, according to league sources.
Sources told ESPN.com that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets have emerged as the most serious suitors for Brewer, whose arrival would be a notable boost for either team in terms of depth.
Minnesota is believed to be seeking future assets in exchange for Brewer as it tries to accelerate its rebuilding effort in the wake of trading star power forward Kevin Love to the Cavaliers in August.
Both Cleveland (via their Keith Bogans trade to Philadelphia) and Houston (Jeremy Lin to L.A.) have trade exceptions that can absorb Brewer's salary, so they wouldn't need to send a player Minnesota's way.
Cleveland currently ranks 25th defensively and needs all kinds of depth (second-round pick Joe Harris is currently getting 20 minutes a game). But interior defense is more of a problem and with LeBron James playing most of his minutes at small forward, it's unclear how big of a role Brewer would have.
Trevor Ariza has fit in well with the Rockets, who have the No. 1 defense in the league through Saturday after playing a weak schedule. There seems to be less need for Brewer in Houston, but he's still quality depth at a cheap price.
The Los Angeles Clippers are another contender who could use a defensive upgrade on the wing, but they probably don't have the trade pieces to get a deal done with the Wolves.


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Surprising Fish Cousins: Tuna & Seahorses
By Becky Oskin 18 July 2013
A new spiny-rayed fish family tree shows tuna and seahorses are closely related through a common ancestor.
(Image: © Patrick Lynch/Yale University)
Spiny-rayed fish rule the underwater world.
In the past 100 million years, fish with spiky dorsal and anal fins — an effective anti-predator device — have occupied every nook and cranny of the planet, said Peter Wainwright, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Davis. The group includes more than 90 percent of coral reef fish species and almost everything humans commercially fish, including bass, pollock and tilapia.
Now, Wainwright and a team of researchers have pieced together a new family tree for this gigantic brood, with more than 18,000 species living today. Using both genetic tools and fossils, the "phylogeny" reveals unexpected links between some spiny-rayed fish, such as tuna and seahorses. The findings were published July 15 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"There are all these sorts of relationships no one had any inkling of," Wainwright told LiveScience. "For a fish fanatic like me, these results are sort of life-changing. Until now, we really had no idea how these huge groups of fish were related."
For example, scientists used to put tuna and swordfish in the same taxonomic group, said Thomas Near, an evolutionary biologist at Yale University and lead study author. The revised family tree shows that tuna and seahorses are more closely related than tuna and other fast fish like swordfish and barracuda. The big, warm-blooded tuna and the tiny seahorse are from sister groups that diverged about 100 million years ago, while flounders and other flatfish are the nearest kin to swordfish, the study found. [Image Gallery: Freaky Fish]
Another remarkable result of the analysis is the absence of any sign of a fish extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, when a mass extinction wiped out the dinosaurs. "When you look at diversification rates, there's no hiccup. There's no hint of a mass extinction event," Wainwright said.
Instead, the spiny-rayed fish were in the midst of a massive takeover, as they occupied every watery niche on the planet between about 150 million to 50 million years ago. Those fin spines became everything from the lure on an anglerfish to a remora's sucker disc to a sailfish's eye-catching sail.
With the new family tree, Wainwright said he has found that coral reefswere invaded by different fish species about 50 times, instead of having a single common fish ancestor that evolved into a variety of forms.
For unknown reasons, the entire fish family downshifted their diversification (the rate at which new species are created) about 40 million years ago, the study found. Wainwright said there's no mass extinction event proposed at that time, and the study authors speculate that the fish may have simply filled all their available habitats on Earth. "The pattern continues to the present, as far as we can tell," Wainwright said. "We cannot say why."
The spiny-rayed fish separated from lampreys, sharks and sturgeon and from the ancestors of salmon and trout about 150 million years ago. Along with their distinctive fin spines, they can also protrude their upper jaw, creating suction that draws in prey.
Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.


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Jerry Eisenberg (Chouinard 56)
Jerry Eisenberg (Chouinard 56) checks in, "I had been given a three-year scholarship to Chouinard by the Los Angeles Examiner Scholastic Sports Association where I had won its sports cartoon contest when I was a freshman at Hamilton High School. I was Hamilton High's chief cartoonist until my graduation, which was on a Friday, and three days later I entered the amazing, wonderful world of the Chouinard Art Institute. Wow! What a great school! I had great teachers like Watson Cross, Don Graham, Elmer Plummer, Richard Moore (an outstanding design teacher), Bob Winquist, etc. Later, I started my career in the animation/cartoon world at MGM, Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, and beyond. I felt so fortunate to work with so many great, talented people like Joe Barbera, Chuck Jones (Chouinard 30), Mike Maltese, Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Iwao Takamoto, and especially learning from my cartoonist/father, Harvey Eisenberg and many more. To have made a good living creating and designing 'silly cartoon characters' was remarkable. How lucky to be doing something I love, because not everybody loves what they do. It's rough out there!"


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Godel, Einstein, and Morgenstern
In a story often thought to be apocryphal, Morgenstern and Einstein accompanied Godel to his naturalization hearing, with amusing results. It turns out that in 1971, Morgenstern typed up his recollection of the day. The PDF is available here, but here is a transcript for greater legibility:
It was in 1946 that Gödel was to become an American citizen. He asked me to be his witness and as the other witness, he proposed Albert Einstein who also gladly consented. Einstein and I occasionally met and were full of anticipation as to what would happen during this time prior to the naturalization proceedings themselves and even during those.
Gödel whom I have seen of course time and again in the months before this event began to go in a thorough manner to prepare himself properly. Since he is a very thorough man, he started informing himself about the history of the settlement of North America by human beings. That led gradually to the study of the History of American Indians, their various tribes, etc. He called me many times on the phone to get literature which he diligently perused. There were many questions raised gradually and of course many doubts brought forth as to whether these histories really were correct and what peculiar circumstances were revealed in them.
From that, Gödel gradually over the next weeks proceeded to study American history, concentrating in particular on matters of constitutional law. That also led him into the study of Princeton, and he wanted to know from me in particular where the borderline was between the borough and the township. I tried to explain that all this was totally unnecessary, of course, but with no avail. He persisted in finding out all the facts he wanted to know about and so I provided him with the proper information, also about Princeton. Then he wanted to know how the Borough Council was elected, the Township Council, and who the Mayor was, and how the Township Council functioned. He thought he might be asked about such matters. If he were to show that he did not know the town in which he lived, it would make a bad impression.
I tried to convince him that such questions never were asked, that most questions were truly formal and that he would easily answer them; that at most they might ask what sort of government we have in this country or what the highest court is called, and questions of this kind. At any rate, he continued with the study of the Constitution.
Now came an interesting development. He rather excitedly told me that in looking at the Constitution, to his distress, he had found some inner contradictions and that he could show how in a perfectly legal manner it would be possible for somebody to become a dictator and set up a Fascist regime never intended by those who drew up the Constitution. I told him that it was most unlikely that such events would ever occur, even assuming that he was right, which of course I doubted.
But he was persistent and so we had many talks about this particular point. I tried to persuade him that he should avoid bringing up such matters at the examination before the court in Trenton, and I also told Einstein about it: he was horrified that such an idea had occurred to Gödel, and he also told him he should not worry about these things nor discuss that matter.
Many months went by and finally the date for the examination in Trenton came. On that particular day, I picked up Gödel in my car. He sat in the back and then we went to pick up Einstein at his house on Mercer Street, and from there we drove to Trenton. While we were driving, Einstein turned around a little and said, "Now Gödel, are you really well prepared for this examination?" Of course, this remark upset Gödel tremendously, which was exactly what Einstein intended and he was greatly amused when he saw the worry on Gödel's face.
When we came to Trenton, we were ushered into a big room, and while normally the witnesses are questioned separately from the candidate, because of Einstein's appearance, an exception was made and all three of us were invited to sit down together, Gödel, in the center. The examinor first asked Einstein and then me whether we thought Gödel would make a good citizen. We assured him that this would certainly be the case, that he was a distinguished man, etc.
And then he turned to Gödel and said, Now, Mr. Gödel, where do you come from?
Gödel: Where I come from? Austria.
The examinor: What kind of government did you have in Austria?
Gödel: It was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship.
The examinor: Oh! This is very bad. This could not happen in this country.
Gödel: Oh, yes, I can prove it.
So of all the possible questions, just that critical one was asked by the examinor. Einstein and I were horrified during this exchange; the examinor was intelligent enough to quickly quieten Gödel and say "Oh God, let's not go into this" and broke off the examination at this point, greatly to our relief.
We finally left, and as we were walking out towards the elevators, a man came running after us with a piece of paper and a pen and approached Einstein and aske him for his autograph. Einstein obliged. When we went down in the elevator, I turned to Einstein and said, "It must be dreadful to be persecuted in this fashion by so many people." Einstein said to me, "You know, this is just the last remnant of cannibalism." I was puzzled and said, "How is that?" He said: "Yes, formerly they wanted your blood, now they want your ink."
Then we left, drove back to Princeton, and as we came to the corner of Mercer Street, I asked Einstein whether he wanted to go to the Institute or home. He said, "Take me home, my work is not worth anything anyway anymore." Then he quoted from an American political song. I unfortunately do not recall the words. I may have it in my notes and I would certainly recognize it if somebody would suggest the particular phrase.
Then off to Einstein's home again, and then he turned back one more toward Gödel, and said, "Now Gödel, this was your last but one examination;" Gödel: "Goodness, is there still another one to come?" and he was already worried. And then Einstein said, "Gödel, the next examination is whether you step into your grave." Gödel: "But Einstein, I don't step into my grave." And then Einstein said, "Gödel, that's just the joke of it!" and with that he departed.
I drove Gödel home. Everybody was relieved that this formidable affair was over; Gödel had his head free again to go about problems of philosophy and logic.


You may think that working on one's muscles is just for bodybuilders, but the truth is that anyone can benefit from a stronger body with stronger muscles. You can build lean muscle or bulk, and there are ways to do both. Here are some tips for building muscle, whichever type you want.
When you are designing a diet for a muscle-building program, carbohydrates are important. Carbohydrates are what your body needs to have the energy for workouts. If you don't eat enough of them your body can break down protein to use for energy instead. Eat enough carbs to allow your body to function properly throughout your workouts.
A great method of motivating yourself is to set short-term goals and give yourself rewards when you reach them. While long-term goals for muscle gain are important, it is sometimes hard to maintain motivation without shorter, and more quickly measured goals. Your rewards can be ones that benefit your efforts in gaining muscle mass. Massages, for example, promote better circulation, which makes it easier to recover from your workouts.
Building lean muscle and bulking up may sound different, but they require some of the same steps. Stronger muscles lead to a stronger body, and you can achieve that by using the tips laid out in this article. By applying them to your workout and your life, you are well on the way to stronger muscles and a stronger body.


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Sebastian Driussi (ur. 9 lutego 1996) – argentyński piłkarz występujący na pozycji napastnika w klubie Austin FC.

Kariera Klubowa

River Plate
2 grudnia 2013 Driussi zadebiutował w barwach pierwszej drużyny River Plate w meczu argentyńskiej Primera Division przeciwko Argentinos Juniors. 17-letni wówczas zawodnik rozpoczął spotkanie w wyjściowym składzie i został zmieniony w 73. minucie, a River Plate wygrało 1-0. Na pierwszego gola w lidze czekał jednak przeszło rok, kiedy to strzelił bramkę w zremisowanym 2-2 meczu z Unión de Santa 8 Marca 2015 roku.

Przełomowym sezonem w barwach River Plate był dla Argentyńczyka sezon 2016/17 w którym stał się podstawowym zawodnikiem zespołu. W 29 ligowych spotkaniach zdobył 17 bramek, a do tego dorobku dołożył 3 bramki w meczach fazy grupowej Copa Libertadores.

Zenit Petersburg
8 lipca 2017 Driussi dołączył do drużyny Zenit Petersburg na cztery lata. Swoją pierwszą bramkę zdobył 22 lipca 2017 r. w wygranym meczu przeciwko Rubinowi Kazań.

Tytuły
 River Plate
 argentyńska Primera Division: 2014 Finał
 Copa Sudamericana: 2014
 Copa Libertadores: 2015
 Suruga Bank Championship: 2015
 Recopa Sudamericanа: 2016
 Puchar Argentyny: 2016
 Argentyna U20
 Młodzieżowe Mistrzostwa Ameryki Południowej w Piłce Nożnej: 2015

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Argentyńscy piłkarze
Piłkarze Zenitu Petersburg
Piłkarze CA River Plate
Ludzie urodzeni w Buenos Aires
Urodzeni w 1996
Mistrzowie Ameryki Południowej U-20 w Piłce Nożnej
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Ameryki Południowej U-20 w Piłce Nożnej 2015
Mistrzowie Ameryki Południowej U-17 w Piłce Nożnej
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Ameryki Południowej U-17 w Piłce Nożnej 2013
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata U-17 w Piłce Nożnej 2013


Ever wonder why Salon Libby bills itself as Orlando's premier organic and traditional hair salon? The reason is partly because we know that permanently altering your hair color or texture requires chemicals that can be harmful to your health. Even the most respected natural and organic brands contain chemicals to make their products work. The difference is in the amount of exposure.
We strive to educate ourselves about the numerous products on the market so that we can bring you great salon products that give both the results you are looking for while minimizing our guests and employees exposure to harsh chemicals that are absorbed through the skin.
It's not only your hair, your makeup, moisturizers, soap and lotions contain chemicals too. It's worth the time to learn which chemicals to avoid. Non-profit organization, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has developed a cosmetic database to help consumers minimize chemical exposure in beauty and skin care products. Here's a printable chart from EWG for you to take along with you on your next personal care shopping escape: http://www.ewg.org/files/EWG_cosmeticsguide.pdf.
If you would like to do a little research beforehand, check out their cosmetic database: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/. And, we know that our health is directly related to the environment and our food. For health tips on everything from which produce is grown with the most pesticides to environmental tips check out their main site at www.ewg.org.
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The ZNCR has a complement of 7 full-time staff comprising 1 x Registrar (Mr E Chokunonga), 1 x Executive Assistant (Ms Marygorret Zvarevashe), 4 x Health Information Assistants (Mrs Rosemary Rukainga (Harare), Ms Romalda Chireshe (Harare), Mr Tongai Tapera (Bulawayo) and Ms Sukoluhle Mguni (Bulawayo)). Two of the Health Information Assistants are based at the Bulawayo Branch located in the Radiotherapy Centre at Mpilo Hospital. One post of Health Information Assistant is vacant.
The Bulawayo branch of the ZNCR is located in the Radiotherapy Centre at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. It has a staff complement of 2 full-time Health Information Assistants. The Registry is locally supervised by Dr. Tatenda Chingonzoh the Head of Department of the Radiotherapy Centre.


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