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Posted by Jarrett Kolthoff on Mon, Dec 03, 2012 @ 06:16 PM
According to recent reporting, The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) nuclear data has been stolen by Parastoo. These types of cyber espionage operations from various Islamic groups will not only occur more often, but will also increase in their severity as this conflict continues. Verification of Parastoo's claims have yet to be verified, although is not beyond the realm of possibility. According to The Washington Free Beacon, Parastoo first managed to hack the IAEA’s servers and stole only 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. They followed up this attack by allegedly pilfering data from the internal “nuclear data section” which houses “highly sensitive information, including confidential ‘SafeGuard’ documents, satellite images, official letters, [and] Presentations.” Yukiya Amano, the United Nations’ nuclear head, said that he did not believe sensitive nuclear safeguards have been comprised. But Parastoo is not the only hacker group to target Israel. Anonymous recently launched its own cyber war against Israel in response to the Israeli military launching counterattacks against the terrorist group Hamas. Anonymous leaked the personal information of nearly 5,000 Israeli officials and defaced as many Israeli websites as possible. According to Parastoo, “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.” “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.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9437590/London-2012-Olympic-flame-goes-out-as-cauldron-is-moved.html
London 2012 Olympic flame 'goes out' as cauldron is moved
The flame, a symbol of the Olympic movement which is supposed to burn for the entirety of the Olympic Games, went out in the stadium on Sunday evening, with witnesses reporting seeing it unlit at 11.14pm.
Olympic organisers have now confirmed it was extinguished to allow staff to move the cauldron to another part of the venue over the weekend.
The revelation that the flame had to be extinguished in order to move the cauldron will add to the controversy over the location of the flame. Critics have said it should have been placed where it would be seen by spectators who did not have tickets to the main stadium.
Jackie Brock-Doyle, director of communications for the London Olympics organisers, told AFP: “The cauldron has been put out while we move it to another part of the stadium.”
She added that the flame would be kept burning in a lantern used during the torch relay until the cauldron was relit later on Monday.
A Locog spokesman today said it had to be temporarily extinguished for safety reasons, but would not confirm how long it was out for.
The flame has already been accidentally extinguished during the build-up to the London 2012 Games, after a torch malfunctioned on day three of its journey around Britain.
The flame, which was being carried through Great Torrington, Devon, on badminton player David Follett's wheelchair went out and had to be relit mid-relay.
At the time, a spokesman for Locog explained: “The flame went out due to a malfunctioning burner.
“It is not uncommon for a flame to go out and this can happen for a number of reasons, for example, in extreme winds.
“We keep the mother flame alight in specially designed miners' lanterns so if the flame does go out for some reason we re-light it from the source of the flame.”
A gust of wind also blew out the flame during a ceremony in Olympia, Greece while an actress playing a high priestess re-enacted a scene from the ancient Olympics.
The flame finally reached the Olympic Stadium safely for the opening ceremony on Friday evening, with seven young athletes performing the final stage of its journey.
The youngsters, who represented the legacy of the Games as athletes of the future, lit the elaborate cauldron, which comprised of 240 separate flames which rose up to make one.
The final position of the cauldron has already attracted some criticism after it was disclosed it would not be visible outside the stadium.
The task of keeping the flame alight has required a mammoth effort from organisers, with special arrangements being made for keeping it burning while on planes, speedboats and on the top of mountains.
In the event that it was extinguished while on its journey around Britain, a “motherflame” was kept nearby to relight it.
This motherflame is said to be “descended” from the “real” Olympic flame in Athens, Greece.
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