Exclusive: Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats - sources
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows reports of two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Hackers, whom U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were Russian, gained access to the entire network of the fundraising Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, of DCCC, said people familiar with the matter, detailing the extent of the breach to Reuters for the first time.
Access to the full DCCC network would have given the hackers access to everything from emails to strategy memos and opposition research prepared to support Democratic candidates in campaigns for the House.
The hack of the DCCC, which is based in Washington, was reported first by Reuters on Thursday, ahead of Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia accepting the Democratic party’s nomination.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-clinton-campaign-hacked-attacks-demo...
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I wonder, does Wiki have them? If so, then this could get realllllll interesting.
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Evidence the DNC hacker was Russian is feeble at best
The hacker worked in the same time zones as Russia, and left, on purpose, a signature in Russian Cyrillic.
Whoa...... it must be true. Not.
FDR 9-23-33, "If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another way. But do it we will.
Not to mention how easy it is for any hacker competent enough
to hack into the servers to spoof his IP address.
Any hacker worth his salt is gonna focus on learning this first, because those that don't don't tend to last long.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Intelligence services...
Like they don't depend on the politicians for their budget and jobs, and haven't been proven to be liars with an agenda in the past...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Like the Clinton pick heading
Like the Clinton pick heading the FBI and Hillary's investigation?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Two words: Chilcot report
Unfortunately, the Chilcot report, which paints a damning picture of Tony Blair’s machinations to bring about the U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq, has been given no coverage by U.S. mainstream media.
Quite ready to “sex up the intelligence” (as the late Dr. David Kelly called the practice) to yield any desired conclusion on request.
Dr David Kelly: 10 years on, death of scientist remains unresolved for some
Death of WMD dossier scientist contributed to erosion of trust in politics
You can spoof an IP addy to be sure but
you can not establish and maintain a two way connection with the machine being hacked. That requires a "handshake" between machines. This handshake will result in painting the actual entrance and exit ip of the attacking machine(s).
However, logs can be altered.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
and also ...
Hacking and phishing and ransomware are literally cottage industries in Russia and eastern Europe. Those professions employ 10s of thousands of workers and generate many billions of dollars in annual revenue. If the hackers were Russian, chances are they were small businessmen making a living and not government.
The salient point for me is not that Russians or anybody else is hacking computers, it's that Democrats are so fracking dumb that they put Social Security numbers into plain text emails, store financial data in unencrypted databases, and don't bother installing security updates and antimalware software. I've heard that the DNC server wasn't rebooted for more than a year, which means no major OS or security patches were installed and any hackers logged in had free reign for as long as they wanted.
It's typical of the arrogance
It's typical of the arrogance of the psychopathic personality, since they're just so special that nobody can touch them. Or else. Hard to threaten/'get' an anonymous hacker, though.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Some years ago, around 2008,
Some years ago, around 2008, I set up a website for my college group's alumni. I checked the logs daily to see if anyone was accessing the site and sure enough, there were dozens of visits even the first days of the site. The visits were almost all from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, and India.
I doubt any of them were interested in Homecoming 1975, but our little site was a possible doorway to the shared disk that was hosting us and that has value. The point is that every site is attacked every day and almost always, as edg says, by people looking to make a buck.
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases."
geeeez
That's nuts! I worked in IT as a PM for a couple of years & that is criminally negligent. Glad I never donated $$ to any Dem organization.
"Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement." Senator Tom Fries, 'Podkayne of Mars,' Robert Heinlein
As I read the post about this
As I read the post about this, the first thing I thought was that they were 'Russian to blame' them as PR back-up for earlier blame of the Russians earlier... We've always hated Eastasia... such a handy diversion.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
So basically...
Hillary knows what the next wikileaks drop is likely to be and is trying to get ahead of the story?
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
OMG! Just noticed your sig line!
Damn! That is perfect!
Maybe, maybe not...
Is there a downside if it is true? Who haven't we chumps been manipulated by? If it helps to destroy Clintons bid for the WH, better yet the whole DLC wing of the DP, I'm ok with it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The smart money is going long on homing pigeons and
bicycle messengers and all the old-fashioned stuff you can see in exhibits at The Spy Museum in DC.
Everything old is new again.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
Typewriters
After the Snowden papers broke and the Russians thought their computer systems were compromised, Putin ordered the ministries to use typewriters .
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Don't worry.
Hillary wiped her server with a cloth, so it was fully protected against coffee spills.
It's a sad day
when I have to agree with Clapper.
Just like deja vu.
Do you remember all the Democratic outrage and hyperventilation when Trump was hacked back in March by Anonymous? Me neither.
Reference: Anonymous says it's hacking Trump
What I want to know is if this is all true. Did it happen?
Who's got the info? Is it going to be given to Wiki or sold back as ransom? And how come all of this stuff is coming out NOW?
So, is it really the Russians?
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key."
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html
What would it be the 'key' in this particular case? And why would they bother? They've seen how much hatred there is for the Clintons in this country. They're probably just waiting for them to screw up and get caught up in another scandal. It's only a matter of time.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I can't imagine what
I can't imagine what appalling new thing even the Clintons could find to have a fresh scandal erupt over. I thought they'd pretty much done/planned/said everything disgusting/illegal that's reasonably possible. But I suppose that if anyone could get creative about anything unethical/criminal which was likely to prove personally lucrative or power-increasing, that would be them.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Are we seriously expected to
Are we seriously expected to ignore the leaked content solely because of how it was supposedly acquired?
"Oh yeah, we did some super shady stuff! Like SUPER shady. And it was all on our computers. But never mind that because RUSSIANS!"
They're channeling the Wizard of Oz
Ignore the criminal behind the curtain!!
That’s just a dog! How could a *dog* reveal anything worthwhile?
The curtain wasn’t lifted by an Emerald City Deep State media asset, so what you see behind it doesn’t exist! It’s just a curtain-spiracy theory!
Especially since the Russians gave the West everything it wanted
and closed up shop in east-central Europe without a shot being fired.
Seen from here in Dresden, ginning up hatred against the Russians all over again seems not just stupid but ungrateful and frankly something a Hitler would pull. One of the major parties has turned on the gas jets and is playing with fascist foreign-policy fire, and its candidate’s name isn’t Trump.
Which country seems incapable of recognizing and respecting the notion that any other country might have legitimate vital interests? Which country has a proven record of moving to wreck things anytime another country succeeds at escaping its control?