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Title: IAEA Incursion, Anti-Israel hackers invade IAEA networks once more
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The Washington Free Beacon
URL Source: http://freebeacon.com/iaea-incursion/
Published: Dec 3, 2012
Author: Adam Kredo
Post Date: 2012-12-03 13:43:38 by X-15
Keywords: Israel, Dimona, nuclear, weapons
Views: 139
Comments: 5
An anti-Israel hacking collective has seized “highly sensitive” nuclear data and satellite imagery from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world’s top nuclear watchdog, according to the website Cryptome. This is the second time in two weeks that the IAEA’s internal computer systems have been hacked by a group calling itself Parastoo, which is the Iranian word for a swallow (bird). Parastoo stole the personal information of nearly 200 IAEA scientists and officials last week, including one employee in the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. DOE is responsible for overseeing America’s nuclear arsenal. Parastoo now claims to have pilfered reams of documents and personnel information from the nuclear watchdog’s internal “nuclear data section,” according to a statement by the group. It also has obtained “highly sensitive information, Including Confidential ‘SafeGuard’ Documents, Satellite Images, Official letters, [and] Presentations,” according to the statement. The hacker group has threatened to release this sensitive information unless the IAEA launches a formal investigation into Israel’s nuclear site, which some believe houses nuclear arms. “We are demanding IAEA to start an INVESTIGATION into activities at Israel’s secret nuclear facilities,” the group wrote in its second public statement. “There are many PARASTOOs in the world, seeking for an investigation into Israel’s Human-Life threatening nuclear activities.” The IAEA did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment about the second infiltration of its servers. Yukiya Amano, the United Nations’ nuclear head, said last week that he did not believe sensitive nuclear safeguards have been comprised as a result of Parastoo’s initial attack, according to Reuters. Parastoo responded to this charge by launching a second attack last week aimed at penetrating further into the IAEA’s systems, this time its “nuclear data section.” “We’re now publishing additional information to prove our ability to gain access to highly sensitive information,” Parastoo wrote in its statement. “IAEA cannot just keep us away by turning off their Servers (either old or new ones!),” the group wrote. “There are plenty more of where this information came from but we guarantee that these information will stay in a very safe place with us.” Parastoo has said that it will safeguard this information as long as the IAEA agrees to investigate Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center located near the southern city of Dimona. Israel has not publicly acknowledged having nuclear arms. Parastoo’s demand appears to be in response to the IAEA’s aggressive investigation into Iran’s clandestine nuclear enrichment program, which is believed to be aimed at building nuclear weapons. “This information only released to open eyes of IAEA and independent media to real threat of world peace, Israel,” the group states. “Our intentions are not to sabotage or misuse such data for any purposes what so ever.” Included in the group’s statement is a link to the IAEA’s internal “nuclear data section.” The information, which includes critical technical information needed to acquire access to the system, is meant to prove that Parastoo’s claims are legitimate. Additionally, Parastoo claims to have at least 15 portions of the IAEA’s system under its control and it lists this information for the public to view. The group also provides a sample of several documents and satellite images it has seized from the IAEA and lists the email addresses of additional employees. Parastoo is highly critical of Israel, accusing it of espionage and terrorism in past statements. Both the language and political positions adopted by Parastoo are similar to dispatches from Anonymous, an anarchic collective of “hacktivists” who engage in cyber-attacks against targets it finds objectionable. Anonymous recently threatened to launch a “cyber war” against Israel in response to its most recent incursion into the Gaza Strip. It then leaked the personal information of nearly 5,000 Israeli officials. Details regarding Parastoo’s specific location remain vague. The group was not publicly known before its first attack and claims to have “many” members likely scattered in various locations.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
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That the IAEA cannot keep its stuff secret is one reason that Israel has refused to cooperate with it. In this instance, it appears that IAEA secrets have fallen into the hands of Iranians - itself a very frightening situation (and, considering the IAEA's history, I wonder if this Iranian intrusion took much effort).
Dimona is Israel's nuclear facility in the Negev Desert. Rumor has it that they have made a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 100 nuclear devices. Also, you cannot build them without testing them. The U.S. has a satellite which can pick up the flash of a nuclear weapon. The Israelis thought it was out of range when they tested off the coast of South Africa, but it was not and it picked up the telltale flash of a nuclear explosion. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Correct, and current estimates put Izzy's stockpile of deadly goy-killers at closer to 300. "In an 20 April 1997 article that appeared in the Israeli Ha'aretz Daily Newspaper, South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad confirmed for the first time that a flare over the Indian Ocean detected by an American satellite in September 1979 was from a nuclear test. This statement was confirmed by the American Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, as an accurate account of what Pahad officially acknowledged. The article said that Israel helped South Africa develop its bomb designs in return for 550 tons of raw uranium and other assistance."
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
The hacker group has threatened to release this sensitive information unless the IAEA launches a formal investigation into Israel’s nuclear site, which some believe houses nuclear arms.
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
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The Israelis thought it was out of range when they tested off the coast of South Africa
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: Shoonra (#1)
While demanding that Iran does cooperate. Hypocrisy thy name is Israel (and its supporters). In this instance, it appears that IAEA secrets have fallen into the hands of Iranians I highly doubt that it is the Iranians doing this. Using a Persian word is just too obvious. If the Iranians were doing it they would not be advertising it. It is more likely to be an Israeli or the US psy-ops. If either country use this incident as an excuse to further their unwarranted and illegal belligerence against Iran we will know the truth. That the IAEA cannot keep its stuff secret is one reason that Israel has refused to cooperate with it.
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Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#5. To: X-15 (#3)
We know for a fact that Israel is guilty of proliferation. ;) The article said that Israel helped South Africa develop its bomb designs in return for 550 tons of raw uranium and other assistance."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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