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US officially blames Russia for political hacking attempts
Christine Wang | @christiiineeee
41 Mins AgoBreaking News
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US: Russia behind email compromises of political orgs 2 Hours Ago | 02:31
The U.S. has formally blamed Russia for recent political hacking attacks, saying they were "intended to interfere with the U.S. election process."

U.S. intelligence officials said they are "confident" that the Russian government directed those attacks on American political organizations, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security said Friday in a joint statement.

"The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts," the agencies said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. accusations that Russia is behind these cyberattacks are "nonsense," Interfax reported. The spokesman said "tens of thousands of hackers" attack Russian President Vladimir Putin's site "every day."

"Many attacks are traced to US territory. But we're not blaming the White House or Langley every time," he said...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/us-officially-blames-russia-for-political-hacking-attempts.html
 
I am guessing Russian routers, switches, firewalls and operating systems, are all bought from the US. Their cellphones are running Android or iOS. The chips are Qualcomm :sneaky:

Although, it would be the NSA, not the CIA. But what do I know.

CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
William M. Arkin, Ken Dilanian and Robert Windrem
5 Hours AgoNBC NEWS

CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership.

The sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation. Former intelligence officers told NBC News that the agency had gathered reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin....

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/14/cia-prepping-for-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia.html
 
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Retired U.S. general pleads guilty to lying to FBI in 'Stuxnet' leak case

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WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A retired U.S. Marine Corps general who last served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty on Monday in a federal court to making false statements to the FBI during an investigation into leaks of classified information.

Four-star General James Cartwright was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2012 over a book written by New York Times reporter David Sanger, which exposed a malicious computer software program known as "Stuxnet" designed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.

Cartwright also in 2012 confirmed classified information about an unnamed country to Daniel Klaidman, then a reporter for Newsweek, according to his plea agreement.

He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in September 2011, four months before he began providing information to Sanger, the plea agreement said.

"I knew I was not the source of the story, and I didn't want to be blamed for the leak," said Cartwright of his effort to mislead FBI agents in a statement released after he pleaded guilty on Monday. "My only goal in talking to the reporters was to protect American interests and lives."

Cartwright's guilty plea was for his false statements to FBI agents, not for speaking to the reporters, said Cartwright's attorney Gregory Craig, of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, in a separate statement: "His effort to prevent publication of information that might harm American lives of national security does not constitute a violation of any law."...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/re...bi-in-stuxnet-leak-case/ar-AAj3TKX?li=BBnb7Kz
 
Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
By RAPHAEL SATTER

Oct. 18, 2016 2:14 PM EDT
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The Ecuadorian national flag flies outside their London Embassy, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Midway... a message posted to Twitter late Monday. In follow-up messages posted Tuesday, the group claimed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had personally intervened to ask Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing documents about Clinton. Citing "multiple US sources," WikiLeaks said the request was made on the sidelines of negotiations which took place last month in Colombia.


The State Department pushed back on the claims.
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f99...ks-assanges-internet-link-severed-state-actor
 
nitro said:
US officially blames Russia for political hacking attempts
Christine Wang | @christiiineeee
41 Mins AgoBreaking News
104002785-6ED4-CB-RUSSIA-HACKING-WILLIAMS-100716.600x400.jpg

US: Russia behind email compromises of political orgs 2 Hours Ago | 02:31
The U.S. has formally blamed Russia for recent political hacking attacks, saying they were "intended to interfere with the U.S. election process."

U.S. intelligence officials said they are "confident" that the Russian government directed those attacks on American political organizations, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security said Friday in a joint statement.

"The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts," the agencies said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. accusations that Russia is behind these cyberattacks are "nonsense," Interfax reported. The spokesman said "tens of thousands of hackers" attack Russian President Vladimir Putin's site "every day."

"Many attacks are traced to US territory. But we're not blaming the White House or Langley every time," he said...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/us-officially-blames-russia-for-political-hacking-attempts.html
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"consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts". So, they have no proof?
 
WeToddDid2 said:
"consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts". So, they have no proof?
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It is somewhat a vicious circle. If they declare they have proof, they show their hand and Russia can tweak their attacks. My guess is that it will become declassified at some point.

 
U.S. Confident It's Blocked Russia's Hacking Paths
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NBC News
Cynthia McFadden and William Arkin and Robert Windrem4 hrs ago


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U.S. officials are confident that defensive measures put in place will stop Russia from hacking more emails to influence the upcoming election — for now.

A high-level intelligence source said the U.S. and its allies have choked off cyber paths that the Russians have allegedly been using to steal emails from high-profile Democrats and other prominent Americans and make them public through WikiLeaks, DCleaks and Guccifer 2.0.

The Russians, both the state actors and their proxies, are some of the most sophisticated cyber actors in the world and so it won't take them long to find ways of infiltrating and attacking new systems getting access to more data and certainly trying to use it for information, warfare or other purposes.

"I think it's credible that the U.S. government is doing everything possible to stop the cyber bleeding," said Juan Zarate, who was a top counterterrorism official from 2005 to 2009.

But, he added, it's all but certain that the Russians will eventually find work-arounds....


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d-russias-hacking-paths/ar-AAja4Ln?li=BBnb7Kz
 
Trove of Stolen Data Included Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools
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By SCOTT SHANE, MATT APUZZO and JO BECKER8 hrs ago
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WASHINGTON — Investigators pursuing what they believe to be the largest case of mishandling classified documents in United States history have found that the huge trove of stolen documents in the possession of a National Security Agency contractor included top-secret N.S.A. hacking tools that two months ago were offered for sale on the internet

They have been hunting for electronic clues that could link those cybertools — computer code posted online for auction by an anonymous group calling itself the Shadow Brokers — to the home computers of the contractor, Harold T. Martin III, who was arrested in late August on charges of theft of government property and mishandling of classified information.

But so far, the investigators have been frustrated in their attempt to prove that Mr. Martin deliberately leaked or sold the hacking tools to the Shadow Brokers or, alternatively, that someone hacked into his computer or otherwise took them without his knowledge. While they have found some forensic clues that he might be the source, the evidence is not conclusive, according to a dozen officials who have been involved in or have been briefed on the investigation.

All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly....

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...secret-us-hacking-tools/ar-AAj9Ss5?li=BBnb7Kz
 
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