Daily Archives: 3. März 2017


03.03.2017 - 21:41 [ Radio Utopie ]

WordPress: Ein Viertel des Internets ist anfällig für Manipulation, Datenraub und Spionage

(20.3.2016) Die WordPress Foundation und ihre Handvoll Entscheider und Entwickler planen derzeit durch die demnächst auf Millionen von Webseiten automatisch installierte Version WordPress 4.5 die Schnittstelle / API „REST“ („Representational State Transfer“) im WordPress Kern zu verankern. Es wird ausdrücklich damit geworben, dass damit

„andere Webseiten, mobile Anwendungen, Desktop / Server Software und andere Komponenten einfach und automatisch programmatisch Daten von eurer WordPress gewinnen können, ohne die Webseite über einen Browser aufrufen zu müssen.“

Wir raten dazu, die gesamte WordPress API Schnittstelle bzw alle „json“-Funktionen und Filter in WordPress vollständig zu deaktivieren. Ein diesbezüglich nützliches Plugin ist Disable JSON API. Auf aktuelle Entwicklungen ist zu achten.

Wer die WordPress API aktiv lassen will, etwa aufgrund einer Anwendung (App), sollte sich die Sachlage zumindest vor Augen führen.

03.03.2017 - 21:40 [ threatpost.com ]

WordPress Silently Fixed Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in 4.72 Update

A WordPress core maintainer said the company delayed disclosing the vulnerability, technically an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that existed in a REST API endpoint, to “ensure the safety of millions of additional WordPress sites.”

WordPress introduced REST API endpoints by default to the CMS when it pushed version 4.7 in early December 2016 to allow access to WordPress posts, comments, terms, and other settings

Marc-Alexandre Montpas, a security researcher with Sucuri found the flaw and alerted WordPress on Jan. 20.

03.03.2017 - 21:07 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. ]

Gegen die gemeinsame Stabs-Übung „Getex“ von Bundeswehr und Polizei!

Was wird da alles unter dem Vorwand der „Terrorbekämpfung“ geübt? Um die Bundeswehr womöglich doch im Inneren einsetzen zu dürfen, obwohl dies im Grundgesetz (GG) weitestgehend ausgeschlossen ist, wird eine „unwahrscheinliche, aber denkbare“ (v. d. Leyen) Terrorlage herbei phantasiert:

03.03.2017 - 20:43 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Focus on Global Politics

One of the reasons for this option is the continued resistance to the establishment of EU military structures, insisted upon by Berlin. Several EU countries are reluctant to have a „Military Planning and Conduct Capabilities“ unit established in Brussels, which would be responsible for EU training missions and could eventually be upgraded to become an EU headquarters.[4] Increased application of „coalitions of the willing“ would help break such resistance. „We need a European headquarters for civilian and military operations,“ declared Elmar Brok yesterday.

03.03.2017 - 20:41 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Konzentration auf die Weltpolitik

Hintergrund ist unter anderem, dass der Aufbau der von Berlin geforderten EU-Militärstrukturen immer noch auf Widerstände trifft. So sperren sich mehrere EU-Staaten dagegen, dass eine „militärische Planungs- und Führungseinheit“, die in Brüssel zur Steuerung von Ausbildungseinsätzen der EU etabliert werden soll, perspektivisch zu einem EU-Hauptquartier aufgewertet wird.[4] Die stärkere Nutzung von „Koalitionen der Willigen“ würde es erleichtern, solche Widerstände zu überwinden. „Wir brauchen ein europäisches Hauptquartier für zivile und militärische Einsätze“, hat am gestrigen Mittwoch Elmar Brok bekräftigt.

03.03.2017 - 20:38 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Flüchtlingsabwehr in Nordafrika (III)

Damit verbunden sind weitere deutsche Ausbildungs- und Ausstattungsmaßnahmen für die tunesischen Repressionsbehörden. Bereits 2015 bildeten Beamte der Bundespolizei tunesische Kollegen zu Themen wie „Grenzmanagement“, „Seesicherheit“, „Sprengstoffdetektion“ oder „Kommunikationsüberwachung“ aus. Dies wurde bald um das systematische Training tunesischer Grenzschützer nicht nur am Maritimen Trainingszentrum der Bundespolizei im holsteinischen Neustadt, sondern auch an der Kommandoschule der tunesischen Nationalgarde in Oued Zarga ergänzt.

03.03.2017 - 20:07 [ Ein Parteibuch ]

Syrische Armee nimmt östlich von Aleppo mehr Orte ein

(2.März) Sollte das wirklich so kommen, wäre damit etwas schier unglaubliches passiert: um einen Krieg zwischen den zwei NATO-Verbündeten mit den beiden größten Armeen und ihren jeweiligen Proxy-Gruppen zu verhindern, wären dann die unter dem Kommando von Wladimir Putin stehenden russischen Streitkräfte und die unter dem Kommando von Präsident Bashar Al Assad stehende syrische Armee zur Trennung der NATO-Streithähne zu Hilfe gerufen worden.

03.03.2017 - 18:47 [ ORF ]

Türkei nennt Vorgehen „faschistisch“

Im Streit über die Absagen von Wahlkampfauftritten türkischer Politiker in Deutschland wird der Ton immer schärfer. Der türkische Justizminister Bekir Bozdag sieht „ein faschistisches Vorgehen“ in Deutschland. „Wenn nötig, werden wir eine Antwort in jeder Weise geben“, sagte Außenminister Mevlüt Cavusoglu.

03.03.2017 - 17:44 [ Wikipedia ]

Kurdish National Council

The Kurdish National Council (KNC, Kurdish: Encûmena Niştimanî ya Kurdî li Sûriyê‎, ENKS; Arabic: المجلس الوطني الكوردي‎‎ Al-Majlis Al-Watani Al-Kurdi) is a Syrian Kurdish political organization funded by the President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani and Turkey in the Syrian Civil Wa

03.03.2017 - 17:42 [ Kurdishinfo.com ]

Dozens of ‘Rojava Peshmergas’ surrender to Shengal forces

According to information obtained by ANF from the ground, dozens from the so-called ‘Rojava Peshmergas’ employed by KDP to fight in Shengal have surrendered to Shengal Resistance/Women’s Defense Units (YBŞ/YJŞ) and Êzidxan Asayish forces, saying: “We do not want to engage in the KDP’s game and fratricidal fighting.”

03.03.2017 - 17:39 [ Yeni Safak ]

Erdoğan meets Iraqi Kurdish region‘s leader Barzani

(27.2.2017) The one-hour closed meeting between Erdoğan and Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish Regional Government, took place in Mabeyn Palace on Istanbul‘s European side.

There has been no press release from either side yet after the meeting, but Erdoğan‘s spokesman İbrahim Kalın said on Wednesday, „we have a lot to talk about.“

03.03.2017 - 17:21 [ The Young Turks / Youtube ]

Trump Just Played CNN Like A Fiddle…

A CNN panel realizes they’ve been had. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss

03.03.2017 - 17:16 [ CNN ]

7-in-10 speech-watchers say Trump boosted optimism

(1.3.2017) Nearly 7-in-10 who watched said the President‘s proposed policies would move the country in the right direction and almost two-thirds said the president has the right priorities for the country. Overall, about 7-in-10 said the speech made them feel more optimistic about the direction of the country.

03.03.2017 - 17:16 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

Greece approached the World Bank for a loan of fresh cash

Greece’s government has asked financial assistance from the World Bank. The amount of the loan has not been revealed, neither when exactly the talks took place. However it sounds most possible that the government’s decision came amid negotiations with creditors on the second review of the third bailout program.

03.03.2017 - 16:34 [ Envelope Collective/soundcloud ]

Oikos — Menace and Portent

From the new LP of Oikos „The Great Upheaval“ set for release on January 13, 2017 on E/C and Knockturne Records.

03.03.2017 - 16:22 [ youtube ]

KAMANCELLO – Radiance

Kamancello is:
Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello
Shahriyar Jamshidi, kamanche
Veröffentlicht am 15.02.2017

03.03.2017 - 16:17 [ Bandcamp ]

III by UFO

Based on five free improvisation sessions the duo UFO around Lukas Huber and Michael Anklin pushes the limits of the term. Five sessions with a guest musician each are the root of the resulting ten tracks that emerged from the hands of the arrangers that the rough material was handed to.(…)
released February 24, 2017

03.03.2017 - 16:02 [ Resident Advisor ]

K Á R Y Y N – Binary

The Syrian-Armenian-American artist makes her experimental pop debut.

03.03.2017 - 13:45 [ The Voice of Germany - Offiziell / Youtube ]

Emily Intsiful: Walzer für Niemand ..

(2013) Diesen Moment darf man wohl getrost als magisch bezeichnen.

03.03.2017 - 13:43 [ Washington Post ]

Sessions breaks with intelligence agencies, says he doesn’t know if Russia wanted Trump to win

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News that he did not know whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.

That assessment differs from U.S. intelligence agencies, which released a report just in January declaring that “Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.”

03.03.2017 - 13:35 [ Washington Post ]

FBI once planned to pay former British spy who authored controversial Trump dossier

The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump’s political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement.

The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts.

03.03.2017 - 13:34 [ FaktCheck.org ]

McCaskill’s Russian Flub

Sen. Claire McCaskill called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign for failing to disclose during his Senate confirmation hearing that as a senator he met twice with the Russian ambassador in 2016. As a point of contrast, McCaskill said, she had “no call from, or meeting with, the Russian ambassador. Ever.” As a point of fact, that turned out to be false.

03.03.2017 - 13:33 [ Talking Points Memo ]

What The CIA and FBI Knew About Trump Before 2016

Today everyone is talking about the inexplicable news about Jeff Sessions. But there‘s another dimension of the Trump/Russia story which has only become clear to me recently but which provides a critical backstory for understanding the background of this scandal and news story.

Let‘s go back to the story of Felix Sater, the Russian-American immigrant, convicted felon and longtime Trump business associate we discussed last week.

03.03.2017 - 13:32 [ Los Angeles Times ]

Trump business associate led double life as FBI informant — and more, he says

Working from a 24th-floor office in Manhattan’s Trump Tower, Felix Sater spent years trying to line up lucrative deals in the United States, Russia and elsewhere in Europe with Donald Trump’s real estate organization.

For much of that time, according to court records and U.S. officials, Sater also worked as a confidential informant for the FBI, and — he says — U.S. intelligence.