Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised 176
New submitter RoccamOccam writes "Shortly after the news broke that the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring the phones and email accounts of Associated Press and Fox News reporters (and the parents of Fox News Correspondent James Rosen), CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson said her computer seemed like it had been compromised. Turns out, it was. 'A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.'"
Re:Welcome to the Botnet (Score:4, Informative)
Occam's razor would suggest that she got pwned by a drive-by exploit on some site she visits. In the same way anyone else might. She just happened to be of some level of importance.
but it was an attack by someone who knew the user/pass. like, from her mail or whatever..
Re:Better security might help (Score:5, Informative)
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-access-to-zero-day-data-from-microsoft-others/ [arstechnica.com]
Re:Better security might help (Score:5, Informative)
SELinux is not provided by the NSA anymore. It has been incorporated into the kernel and all you have to do is enable stuff that you want to use now. The code has been reviewed and the NSA was not the only entity involved, so I would not worry about that too much.
Re:Yawn... (Score:5, Informative)
The best thing to do if you want to change people's minds is to find facts and present them reasonably, politely, logically, in a factual manner, and possibly with a reference link. Flames and insults seldom change peoples minds, and rarely snark, but facts sometimes do. Note that I wrote "sometimes." And it is often a long process. Being in the minority on Slashdot often means having to ignore insult, bad moderation, harassment, trolls, the occasional doppelganger [slashdot.org] trying to discredit you, silly arguments against you being highly moderated while you get mod bombed, the occasional death threat or wish for your injury, and all manner of other nonsense. And you have to live with the fact that vehement statements that are uninformed, silly, completely wrong, and often inflammatory, will be highly moderated as long as they are from the proper politically correct perspective. There are people from all around the world that post here with all manner of ideas, including: liberals, socialists, progressives, libertarians, conservatives, communists, Nazis, Islamists, Christians, atheists, the occasional Jedi, programmers, sys admins, engineers, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, students, mathematicians, physicists, and I'm going to stop because the full list is so long, seemingly unbounded. It can be frustrating, but try to be salt, if you care to.
Re:Welcome to the Botnet (Score:2, Informative)
>The Guardian likes to [...] listen to voicemails too
Are you mixing up the News of the World and The Guardian?
That's a pretty big mistake to make.