HITLER'S PAINTINGS

Painting reportedly made by Hitler to go on sale.

BERLIN : An oil portrait believed to have been painted by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler of a little-known former lover will go under the hammer next week-

With an asking price of $74,000, a German auction house said on Thursday.

The 63 x 48 cm painting. signed A Hitler, 1916, depicts Charlotte Lobjoie, a Frenchwoman whom Hitler met while serving in France during World War 1, according to Werner Master, a leading Hitler scholar died in 2007.

'Portrait of a Girl' - a damaged work painted on hessian - was purchased by Flemish industrialists around 1967, auction house Weidler in Nuremberg said in a statement.

It said it had documents showing it had been exhibited at art galleries in Japan.

The painting, in what appears to be a rural setting, depicts a young woman with a red scarf loosely on her head that cats a heavy shadow over her face, and holding a pitchfork.

She is wearing a light-coloured shirt, open from the neck down. exposing part of her chest.

Maser, who was referred to by Weidler in its statement, wrote several books about Hitler, providing insight into the mind of the Nazi leader through a close look at his drawings, letters and notes.

Hitler painted for a living in the 1920s before rising to power and leading Germany into World War II.

With Soviet troops closing  in on his headquarters in Berlin, he committed suicide in April 1945.

In 2015, Weidler sold a watercolour of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria that was also signed A. Hitler and believed to be the work of the former Nazi leader at an auction that fetched Euro 100,000. [Reuters].

*'SMILE AND NOD' : LATIN AMERICA

US President Donald Trump who has disparaged Latin American countries over immigration, narcotics and trade -

Heads to the region this week for a summit that diplomats say is likely to be awkward and tense.

Trump will arrive in the Peruvian capital, Lima, on Friday for the Summit the Americas with an agenda of encouraging commercial ties and urging allied to take a hard line on Venezuela, according to - US officials who briefed reporters on the trip.

But the US president's divisive rhetoric and fraught relationships with leaders such as Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto make it unlikely he will make big strides towards his goals, experts said.

''He is going in profoundly unpopular in the region, and that obviously complicates the ability of leaders to work with him,'' said Mark Feierstein, who managed-

Hemispheric issues for President Barrack Obama's White House, and is now an adviser with Albright Stonebridge Group.

The visit is stirring nostalgia for Obama, the Republican president's Democratic predecessor, a Peruvian diplomat said.

The diplomat added, however : ''Nobody has lost any sleep over Trump,'' saying : ''We all know how to smile and nod along, so we're not too worried.''

Trump has complained about US job losses to Mexico, threatened to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada and began his-

Presidential bid with a speech describing Mexican immigrants as  ''rapists'' and drug dealers.

Trump has also taken aim at migration from Nicaragua, Honduras, EI Salvador and other Latin American countries and threatened to cut off aid to Colombia, and Peru over the drug trade.

As he prepares for his trip, which includes a stop in Colombia after the summit, Trump has ramped up his rhetoric on illegal immigration with a plan to send National Guard troops to the US border with Mexico. [Agencies]

INDIA'S $2 BILLION BANK FRAUD

INDIA has asked authorities in Hong Kong to arrest jeweller Nirav Modi, one of the main suspects in a $2 billion fraud at-

State-run Punjab National Bank, the government said, suggesting it believes the fugitive is in the Chinese territory.

The whereabouts of Modi and his uncle  Mehul Choksi, the other person accused in India's biggest banking fraud at the country's second largest state lender, have been unknown since the-

Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] launched an investigation in February.

The passports of Modi and Choksi, who both left India before the scandal emerged, have been revoked. Junior Foreign Minister V.K. Singh said India had submitted the request  for Modi's arrest to Hong Kong on March 23.

Modi, who owned a chain of boutiques from New York to Hong Kong, and Choksi accused of defrauding banks by raising loans from overseas branches of Indian lenders using nearly $2 billion of-

Fraudulent guarantees issued by rogue Punjab National bank staff at a Mumbai branch.

Modi and Choksi  have denied wrongdoing [Agencies]

*SOUTHEAST ASIA'S BEAUTIFUL ISLANDS*

SOUTHEAST ASIA'S idyllic islands under tourism strain.

THE six-month closure of the Philippine tourism island of Boracay for a revamp after the country's president branded it a ''cesspool'' reflects -

The growing pressures on beach resorts across Southeast Asia as a visitor members surge.

Tourism experts say the region's infrastructure is buckling under record visitor numbers, especially as more Chinese holiday abroad, and expect more drastic measures to come.

Airports have become chaotic, hotels are being thrown up hastily with little regard for safety and sanitation, tropical beaches are strewn with garbage and coral reefs are dying.

Thailand already has plans to shut its famous Maya Bay in the Phu Phi islands or four months this summer, while an environmental group is calling for urgent government action to tackle a ''crisis'' on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.

''Many out-of-control destinations across Asia will need clean ups,'' said Brian King, associate dean of the School Of Hotel and Tourism Management at  Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

''These may come from government, or industry or from NGO-driven community action. The danger is that little happens until the crisis point is reached.''

He added : ''Boracay, which is not the first and won't be the last closure.''

Airlines have already started to cut back flights to Boracay, which had 2 million visitors last year, with the largest foreign contingents coming from China and South Korea, ahead of its closure on April 26.

The Philippines, which had record visitor numbers last year after three years of  double-digit  growth, estimates the Boracay closure could reduce full-year GDP by 0.1 percent. [Agencies].

Headline April 11, 2018/ ''' CYBERTHREATS -CYBEROLYMPICS- CYBERATTACKS .'''

''' CYBERTHREATS -

CYBEROLYMPICS - CYBERATTACKS '''

VIGILANCE IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT,... Yes, 100% - the price of LIBERTY......... *Rabo and Haleema and Saima!*........

The World at Large, is on a gambit, CyberOlympics may just be in order. The World Students Society should best wakeup.

Napoleon had a point : ''Defeat may be pardonable. Surprise not so'' :

JUST LAST YEAR, *The British Parliament' was the target of a vicious cyberattack that left all legislators unable to connect to-

Their email after remote access to accounts was disabled as a security measure. And a week later after the attack -

There were reports in-

The Times of London that the passwords of British cabinet ministers, ambassadors and senior police officers were being sold online after Russian hacking groups gained access.

According to the newspaper, the stolen data revealed the private login details of 1,000 members of Parliament and parliamentary staff, 7,000 police employees and more than 1,000 Foreign Office officials.

Britain's National Cyber Security Center said that it would issue further guidance to government departments after being presented with the findings. And with that I turn to Master Ben-Oni to see and study what we can learn from his experience..........

Mr. Ben-Oni says that he has spoken to 107 security experts and researchers about attack, including the chief executives of nearly -

Every major security company and the heads of threat intelligence at Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

With the exception of Amazon, which found that some of the customers' computers had been scanned by the same computer that hit IDT, no one had seen any trace of the attack before Mr. Ben-Oni notified them.

The New York Times confirmed Mr. Ben-Oni's account via written summaries provided by Palo Alto Networks, Intels McAfee and other security firms he used and asked to investigate the attack.

''I started to get the sense that we were the canary,'' he said. ''But we recorded it.''

Since IDT was hit, Mr. Ben-Oni has contacted everyone in his Rolodex to warn them of an attack that could still be worming its way, undetected through victims systems.

''Time is burning.'' Mr. Ben-Oni said. ''Understand, this is really a war - with offense on one side, and institutions. organizations and schools on the other, defending against an unknown adversary.''

'NO ONE IS RUNNING POINT'

Since the Shadow Brokers leaked dozens of coveted attack tools in April, hospitals, schools, cities, police departments and companies around the world have been largely left to -

Fend for themselves against weapons developed by the world's most sophisticated attacker : the N.S.A.

A month earlier, Microsoft had issued a software path to defend against the N.S.A. tools - suggesting that the agency tipped the company off to what was coming.

Microsoft regularly credits those who point out vulnerabilities in its products, but in this case the company made no mention of the tipster.

Later, when the WanaCry attack hit hundreds of thousands of Microsoft customers, Microsoft's president, Brad Smith, slammed the government in a blog post for hoarding and stockpiling security vulnerabilities.

For his part, Ben-Oni said he had rolled out Microsoft's patches as soon as they become available, but attackers still manged to in through the IDT contractor's home modem.

Six years ago, Mr. Ben-Oni had a chance meeting with an N.S.A. employee at a conference and asked him how to defend against modern-day cyberthreats.

The N.S.A. employee advised him to ''run three of everything'' :

;- Three firewalls.
.- Three antivirus solutions.
.- Three intrusion detection systems.

And so he did.

But in this case, modern-day detection systems created by Cylance, McAfee and Microsoft and patching systems by Tanium did not catch the attack on IDT...............

The Honor and Serving of the latest 'Operational Research' on Threat Intelligence, Cyberattacks continues.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! - the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011:


''' !WOW! 0' !WOW! '''

Good Night and God Bless

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