FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others (cnn.com) 61
Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other U.S. news organizations, reports CNN, citing US officials briefed on the matter. From the report: The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies. Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said. "Like most news organizations we are vigilant about guarding against attempts to hack into our systems," said New York Times Co. spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. "There are a variety of approaches we take up to and including working with outside investigators and law enforcement. We won't comment on any specific attempt to gain unauthorized access to The Times." The breaches targeting reporters and news organizations are part of an apparent surge in cyber attacks in the past year against entities beyond US government agencies.
How dare they hack NY Times reporters! (Score:5, Funny)
That's the NSA's job!
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All must live in Fear.
Take your Soma, citizen!
Questions mean strife.
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So...it's NSA's fault when foreign intelligence services conduct espionage against US political parties, media organizations, etc., and actively try to influence the outcomes of US elections, and manipulate the opinions of US citizens?
You ask as if this is a rhetorical question with the answer no. Which group has been consistently in opposition to proper security of crypto systems? Which group managed to corrupt the IPSEC standard with needless complexity to the level that it never got implemented? Which group has been consistently holding vulnerabilities against American products (CISCO routers!!!?!!??) let alone non US products used by American companies.
Most of all, which group has been openly and gratuitously using hacking techniq
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But if the NSA did it's job, who would employ all the people of Utah?
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Government has no credibility (Score:1)
The people jumping up and down pointing at Russia are the same people who sat on the exploits in the shadowbroker leaks for at least 3 years rather than working with vendors to allow them to be fixed.
No, you don't get to secretly build up a trove of exploits for common infrastructure, invade every domestic and foreign computer network without justification, then start screaming about how Russians are using cyberwarfare too.
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Yes, the Russian intelligence services have the best interests of democracy and the United States at heart!
Note to nimbius: look up the term "useful idiot".
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Note to nimbius: look up the term "useful idiot".
Especially since that term is attributed to Lenin.
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Would those Russian intelligence services have the interests of the US more or less than the current crop of entirely corrupt US corporations that run the US government. Taking into account recent behaviours of US multi-national corporations and Russian intelligence services, when it comes to the typical Anonymous citizen, yeah Russian intelligence service cares more about you than US corporations and their corrupt US government. A country falling apart due to excessive corruption with a whole bunch of nuk
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Or maybe russian hackers understand that US Media outlets actively collaborate and conspire with political campaigns during election seasons to control and direct dissent within the party and defuse potential scandalous or controversial events in an effort to ensure a positive return on their future investment.
I'd say that's just too conspiratorial. The Russians probably realize that the Times' editorial bias favors Clinton. The Russians aren't trying to aid Trump or necessarily defeat Clinton. What they probably want is to minimize Clinton's ability to command some kind of "mandate" sized victory and maintain the fractured domestic political structure.
A non-landslide victory by Clinton will be met with at least as much if not more obstructionism by Republicans and a level of continued division in the public.
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It's funny. The DNC does illegal stuff, gets caught, then blames the people who outed their illegal activities.
The press sure as hell doesn't do that any more, or the Washington Post wouldn't be holding clandestine fundraisers that the lawyers would "never" allow, as we learned from the leaked emails.
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There is much to like about the Trump campaign if you are Russian.
Trump has promised to look into lifting the sanctions that the U.S. has imposed against Russia [sputniknews.com] for its military incursions in Ukraine.
The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces [washingtonpost.com], contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
He questioned whether the U.S. would defend its NATO allies [bloomberg.com]
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They could tell it was Russian agents hacking them because they all dressed in 1970s The Americans clothes.
Let me guess... (Score:1)
The same FBI clowns who couldn't bring Hilldebeast up on charges will indict Putin and half the computer users in Russia.
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Well, ya gotta have priorities...
This new trend of blame Russia for everything... it's catchy. I bet Anthem (insurance co) is saying, damn, if only we came up with this Russian hacker excuse for our data breach... "Reuters reports Russian hackers infiltrated Anthem and accessed patient records; Russians apparently interested in the number of dick pill prescriptions in 2015"
Inventive Russion Hackers (Score:1)
Relax everyone! They're just trying to get access to news from outside of their country.
This should be a bigger story (Score:1, Troll)
Russian intelligence agents using hacking to exert influence on a U.S. presidential election should be HUGE news. Maybe now that a news organization is a direct victim, it will be.
I assume that Putin hasn't bothered to target FOX because it's mostly about newsbabes with big tits in red dresses anyway. And why mess with that?
Re: This should be a bigger story (Score:2)
I'm still waiting on a shred of evidence that the Russian government is behind any of these. Claims from Hillary's campaign manager don't count.
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We can trust Hillary. Hillary never lies. The DNC never lies or tries to fix elections or blame their problems on damn foreigners. The Washington Post never holds clandestine fundraisers for Hillary.
The Russians don't hack the NY Times, they have always had an admin login account provided by the management. After all, how else would they be the first to toe the Party line?
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Russians hacking the NY Times should be the least effective way to influence an election if the NY Times is neutral in its reporting and not withholding negative information that would harm Clinton's candidacy.
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Title vs Article (Score:1)
FBI Investigating Russian Hack Of New York Times Reporters, Others
FTFA:
The FBI declined to comment and a spokesperson for The New York Times would not confirm the attacks or the investigation.
Solid journalism.
Ok /. editors you want Clinton. (Score:3)
If only. (Score:5, Funny)
If only we had some sort of national agency that would find weaknesses in security and ensure we were protected. A "national security agency" if you will... oh wait. -_-
McCarthy all over again (Score:2)
This entire story is a mess... (Score:3)
So wild guessing again, likely piggy backing off the erronious statements that the Times itself made regarding the sources of these hacks...
Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at The New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter.
The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies.
Hm...
Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the company had seen "no evidence" that any breaches had occurred.
"We are constantly monitoring our systems with the latest available intelligence and tools. We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised,"
So no hack?
The Times has brought in private sector security investigators who are working with US national security officials to assess the damage and determine how the hackers got in, according to the US officials.
So they were hacked?
Attention has grown on the hacks thought to be carried out by Russians since Wikileaks released a trove of emails stolen from the DNC in the weekend before the Democratic Party's convention to nominate Hillary Clinton for president. US intelligence officials say there is strong evidence showing Russian intelligence behind the DNC hack. The Clinton campaign has claimed the hack as proof that the Russians are trying to aid the election of Donald Trump.
Thought by who? Is there some official statement that the earlier hacks of the DNC and DCCC are the work of the Russians (with proof?). Likely no, more than likely this statement is based off the flawed TrustConnect analysis which assumed Russian intelligence services had something to do with this because the originating IP of the hack was hidden behind Russian VPN.
And there we have it folks. News! Predictably from CNN they have to of course point out that the Evil DT is the one responsible for all of this, according to a documented liar.
A clearer picture (Score:1)
So other governments (Score:2)
Over time vast amount of data in plain text is collected on internal networks. No decryption is needed, no strange bulk decryption requested detected.
This bulk information collection in plain text is then networked out of the US servers without notice for some time.
Well understood, older hacking tools are presented as proof in to the waiting US press at the very start of "secret" investigations to
Simple Russian Motivation (Score:2)
I think this is much simpler than the Russians trying to influence US elections or policy. It's about revenge. Everyone knows Hillary was playing god in Libya and a lot of people died, including friend of Putin...Muammar Gaddafi. Who was killed with US assistance and his corpse mutilated and broadcast on TV.
Russia took the gloves off after that, going after Clinton's support on all fronts. First internationally and now at home. All the leaks from the DNC to Soro's and his constellation of NGOs are all long
New York Post-worthy headline (Score:2)
Never forget the New York Times was one of the loudest cheerleaders for the lucrative business plan called the Iraq War (subtitled: ISIS Awakens).