Examining Terrorist Tactics: TATP and the New Breed of Homemade Explosive Devices

By Hammerhead

It appears the Homemade Explosive Device that detonated in Central Park over the 4th of July Weekend was indeed made with TATP.

The actuating trigger on the device was a pressure sensitive plate, which leads me to believe this WAS NOT a hobbyist left behind experiment, but an actual IED booby trap left behind by a TERRORIST for a cop or civilian to step on.

TATP has a long and bloody history when it comes to being used in Terrorism.

This begs the question how do we as Civilian Operators avoid being victims of such nefarious devices?

In a Word: AWARENESS.

Be Aware of your surroundings at ALL times.

Do you remember that show the Electric Company back in the day? They had this bit on their called “One of these Things Don’t Belong” Basically it was an exercise to teach kids about conformity (and non-conformity). They would have like 4 dudes with red shirts and one guy with a blue shirt and then everybody would sing a little song like “Which one of these People Don’t Belong?”. Yeah Cheesy, I know. But when you are like 5 years old Television does not have to be mind-blowing to be effective…..just look at what Kid’s watch today….Good Lord!

My point in telling you that retarded story is as CO’s, we have to be AWARE of our surroundings in a manner that NOTICES things that are OUT OF PLACE. WHY? Because IED’s (like the pressure cookers that the Boston Bomber Tsaranev brothers placed in a backpack and the sack with the TATP Explosive in it in Central Park) when looked at from the perspective of “WHICH OF THESE THINGS LOOKS OUT OF PLACE? Should set off alarm bells and red lights in your head.

We have got to come to the conclusion folks that with each Terrorist attack that happens, our AWARENESS and DANGER level should automatically go up a notch. Maybe before the Boston Bombings a lone backpack sitting on the sidewalk or in  a trash can would not raise any concerns, NOW in 2016, it should send off Major Alarms! Maybe before the Central Park Explosion on the 4th of July, a Lone Sack sitting on some rocks should not raise any concern at all, NOW, present day, It should be AVOIDED like the Plague! Contact Law Enforcement of it’s location and KEEP YOUR DISTANCE!

Things are Getting BAD out there folks, Time to get Serious about Your Safety!

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

 

 

How to Find out if your Netflix Account was Hacked-And Fix It

Netflix lets multiple people use an account at the same time, and this feature is great when it allows you to mooch off a friend’s account without inconveniencing them.

But one problem with this policy is that it has inadvertently created a black market for “access” to stolen Netflix accounts.

A recent report by McAfee Labs revealed you can buy access to Netflix accounts in “Dark Web” marketplaces, which can only be accessed using a special internet browser called TOR that hides your IP address.

Hackers in these marketplaces are selling lifetime access to Netflix accounts for as little as $0.50. While some of these accounts are likely ones purchased with stolen credit card information, others used hacked login information, Raj Samani, the CTO of Intel Security, told Tech Insider.

And sometimes hackers don’t even sell the stolen accounts, but rather, just dump the login credentials on the internet for people to use.

Motherboard writer Rachel Pick came face-to-face with this phenomenonrecently when she noticed weird movies and TV shows showing up in her “Recently Watched” section on Netflix. At first, she says she thought it was just a glitch in Netflix, but after reading about the black market for stolen Netflix accounts, she decided to check if hers had been hacked.

The tool she used was haveibeenpwned.com, which gives you a rough idea of whether your personal information has been leaked onto the internet. Pick found that her family’s login info had appeared on Pastebin, a site for dumping plaintext files, in a document with the title “BunchaNetflixAccounts.” The information from 2,400 other users had also been compromised.

While haveibeenpwned.com worked for Pick, it’s not always effective for finding out if you’ve been hacked, especially if your login is being sold on the “Dark Web.”

Luckily there’s an easy measure you can take if you think there might even be the possibility you’ve been hacked. Netflix has a feature that allows you to force all users who are logged into your account to log out. This means everyone with the username and passwords saved gets temporarily booted. Once you’ve done that, just change your password to keep them out permanently. This also works if you get too many “friends of friends” clogging up your account.

Here is how you do it.

Go to the account page and select “Sign out of all devices.”

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You then will be prompted to confirm.

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After that, all that’s left is changing your password so they can’t log back in (bear in mind the signing out can take up to eight hours to take effect).

Read the Original Article at Business Insider