While a second variant of the WannaCry(pt) ransomware (based on NSA's EternalBlue exploit) was spreading across the globe yesterday, The FT reports criminal hacking groups have repurposed a second classified cyber weapon stolen from US spies and have made it available on the so-called dark web.
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Some people I would normally expect not to lose their minds following anti-Trump hype did lose their minds. Of course, the standard nutcases one might expect would lose their minds did so as well.
The result is has been a steady stream of nonsense all day regarding Trump’s alleged disclosure of highly classified information to Russia.
From "Blain’s Morning Porridge – May 16th 2017" by Bill Blain of Mint Partners
“Now all them things that seemed so important, well mister, they vanished right into the air….”
I’ve been very fortunate this morning to spend 30 minutes in the company of perhaps the wisest man in the whole of London. Stuck in traffic on the way back from the West End, I discovered my mini-cab driver has a better approach and strategy for dealing with the daily misery that is modern life than any investment professional I’ve ever met.
Authored by Alex Gorka via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Authored by Peter Pry, chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, op-ed via The Hill,
Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon — and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.