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Hacked Swedish Military Servers Used In Attacks On US Banks (securityweek.com)
Reader wiredmikey writes: Swedish military computers were hacked and used in an attack targeting major U.S. banks in 2013, the armed forces said on Monday. The attack knocked out the web sites of as many as 20 major U.S. banks and financial institutions, sometimes for several days. According to Swedish military spokesman Mikael Abramsson, a server in the Swedish defense system had a vulnerability which was exploited by hackers to carry out the attacks. At the time, the attack, which began in 2012 and continued for months, was one of the biggest ever reported. U.S. officials blamed Iran, suggesting it was in retaliation for political sanctions and several earlier cyberattacks on its own systems.
Lets see if adding backdoors will make the world more secure...
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U.S. officials blamed Iran, suggesting it was in retaliation for political sanctions and several earlier cyberattacks on its own systems.
In other words, we know that Iran must be doing this horrible awful thing, because we've been doing it to them and they must be getting upset about that.
Not sure what that has to do with anything though. The attacks coming through Sweden doesn't prove or disprove where they originated, so I don't see the point of the above quote.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Wow, good thing we didn't do the usual: bomb them out of hand.
My brain read the headline as something something Swedish House Mafia attacks US banks. I guess maybe that's not too far off in this case.
because "hacked". It's like, an infectuous disease without a cure, or something.
Great. Now we're going to invade Sweden.
Whenever hacking attacks on US business or government computers from systems in China occur, everyone knows it was the Chinese government behind it all. Whenever hacking attacks on US business or government computers from systems in Russia occur, everyone knows it was either Putin, or the Russian mob directed by Putin himself. Whenever hacking attacks on US business or government computers from systems in Iran occur, everyone knows that it was the Iranian government behind it all. Whenever hacking attacks on US business or government computers from systems in Syria occur, etc., etc...
In all cases, those governments are so brazen as to not care to cover their tracks by directing their hackers to compromise systems in other countries and launch their attacks from them. But when the attacks are traced back to Swedish military computers, well it's obvious that the Swedes were hacked because Sweden is a friendly, European, cosmopolitan country that wouldn't spy on its fellow Western businesses and governments.
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!!11 Fuckin Swedes are devious, backstabbing, sneaky bastards. The Swedish Volleyball Team? Assassins. You can't trust a goddamn Swede, period. It was them, alright.
It was the digital vikings, at it again. Now, was it a raid of the Novgorod line of Viking descendants, or was it a Semitic revenge for the princess who was taken over 1000 years ago to be married to a Viking king, that is the question. Mind you, her royal grave was of a size of entire ship so you have nothing to complain over there.
You shouldn't worry. When Hillary or Ted is elected Prez we won't have long to wait. Spring of 2019, I predict.
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Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, chased by one Norwegian.
TL;.gig;DR
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He really smelled that bad huh?
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Murica should build a wall between murica and sweden!!!
They were not "cracked". It was an NTP reflection attack, the servers were not properly configured.
> Heh, I didn't know Sweden even had a military.
Sweden was a military superpower between app. 1600-1750, both on sea and especially on land. Their King Charles XII was more or less the Great Alexander of the north, he invaded Germany, Russia, Norway, etc. at the same time. Eventually his own people shot him in the head, being tired of several decades of constant warfare.
Nowadays Sweden has a strong-ish military, because they are officially neutral, thus without reliable allies, but afraid the russians might invade to fetch their long-legged blondes and Volvos. Sweden of just 5 million people has had 3 generations of locally built Mach 2 supersonic fighter jets, the latest incarnation named SAAB JAS-39 Gripen does everything the F-16 does, in half the size and cost. My country uses them, just like the czech and the thai.
> No wonder their servers were cracked, they don't have anyone working in IT either by my reckoning.
Huh? Sweden invented the hand-held mobile phone, together with Norway and Finland (Nordic Mobile Phone or NMT-450). Comrade Gorbachev gave up on the Cold War when he was handed a working anenna phone from the production line, when the same or (more capable) soviet (military) hardware travelled on 6x6 heavy truck chassis. Next, the nordic people invented digital, rater than analogue mobile phones together (GSM 900), Ericsson for Sweden, Nokia for Finland.
Actually, we are about 10 million these days and Swedes are responsible for Minecraft, Spotify, DICE and Skype to mention a few.
He really smelled that bad huh?
No, but ten thousand more, stood by and swore, that the odds were too uneven.
There was one mention of the original intrusion by the FBI as being from China, and being a 'state-sponsored' attack.
Clearly, as with everything related to the u.s. 3-letter illegitimate agencies, they didn't know where the attack came from at the time, and they threw out some b.s. to cover for their ineptitude using the 'standard operating procedure' of lying.