RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: The Republican National Convention will be a popular target for cyberattacks. An official in charge of securing the network has said the RNC already had to fend off a wave of cyberattacks before the convention opened. Many more attacks are expected throughout the convention ranging from "nation-states hunting for intelligence or protesters trying to disrupt the network at the convention," said the consulting chief information officer for the RNC, Max Everett. Donald Trump's campaign appears to only fuel attackers, security experts said. The convention opens Monday afternoon and will attract roughly 50,000 people in addition to a global audience watching from afar. "A successful attack could impact physical security on the ground, for example, by taking connected security scanners offline. It could also affect online activity, for example, by hijacking the livestream and derailing the GOP's message," reports CNBC. The Secret Service has designated the conventions "national special security events." Everett and his team of 70 IT specialists will be using Microsoft and ForeScout software to monitor the network in real time, working with ATT and Cisco on securing external access to the network and a firm called Dark Cubed to share real-time threat information among the firms trying to defend against cyberattacks.

Comments

Should be worried about gunfire

[gurps_npc]

Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.

If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.

I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Archangel Michael]

Yeah, because people with OPEN carry shoot others all the time for no reason. Meanwhile, anti-cop racist assholes have killed and shot over a dozen cops in the last couple weeks, and you're scared about Trump supporters? Yeah, Liberalism has no bias at all. SMH

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Bartles]

Do you have a problem with followers of a candidate beating up protesters? If so, you're really complaining about the wrong candidate.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Nkwe]

Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.

If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.

I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone

I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Fire_Wraith]

I'm not sure why you seem to think that a volatile high stress situation like this, with lots of firearms thrown into the mix, somehow isn't a situation where someone is likely to get shot, one way or another. The GP even noted that it could occur on either side. I'd hate to be a cop in that mix, or a protester, nevermind some poor jerk just trying to go to my regular job.

I'm just glad I'm not anywhere near there, but it sure must suck to be those people.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[OzPeter]

Meanwhile, anti-cop racist assholes have killed and shot over a dozen cops in the last couple weeks,

You could just have easily said returned Vets have shot up over a dozen cops in the last couple of weeks.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[fiannaFailMan]

anti-cop racist assholes have killed and shot over a dozen cops in the last couple weeks,

Or as conservatives would call it, "exercising Second Amendment rights to resist a tyrannical government." Well? That's what insurrectionist gun lobbyists and militias want, isn't it? If using force of arms to resist a tyrannical government doesn't involve pointing guns at people and shooting them, what does it involve?

Or is it different when Cliven Bundy types point their rifles at federal agents or illegally occupy federal buildings? Or in the case of the Timothy McVeigh types, blow them to kingdom come?

Yeah, conservatism has no bias at all. SMH.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Penguinisto]

You could just have easily said returned Vets have shot up over a dozen cops in the last couple of weeks.

...except for the fact that their social media pages were packed to the rafters with anti-cop racist spew (and not, say, pro-military veteran spew).

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Penguinisto]

Or is it different when Cliven Bundy types point their rifles at federal agents or illegally occupy federal buildings?

...small difference: Bundy didn;t ambush or snipe at the aforementioned agents. Dallas? Not so much.

 

Or in the case of the Timothy McVeigh types...

McVeigh was executed to the relief and morbid delight of both sides of the aisle, if memory serves.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[quantaman]

Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.

If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.

I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone

I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.

A big subtext of open carry is they think they look really cool, authoritative, and intimidating with their big guns. On their own you can just kind of ignore them and let them do their thing, but they're walking into a scenario where there's a lot of people on both sides who are brimming for a fight and trying to show they won't back down.

All you need is a few open carry folks who really want to show they're in charge, some protesters who want to call their bluff, and things escalating into violence. It might not happen, but there's an unusual number of bad factors at work.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[Opportunist]

As if the labels had anything to do with their original meaning anymore.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[PopeRatzo]

None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[PopeRatzo]

All you need is a few open carry folks who really want to show they're in charge, some protesters who want to call their bluff, and things escalating into violence.

I'm not advocating for violence in Cleveland, but if things really escalate, it could tie up a lot of loose ends for the rest of us.

But it would be wrong.

Re:Should be worried about gunfire

[cold fjord]

None of the scum that killed police recently are Conservatives.

By "recently", you must mean, "this week".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Excuse me, ... while your sleight of hand is impressive (and good for mod points), you aren't playing this straight. The article you link to doesn't list conservatives, it lists white people. That isn't the same. One deals with skin color, the other deals with ideas. There is nothing contradictory about being black and conservative:
  Clarence Thomas
  Thomas Sowell
  Herman Cain
  Larry Elder
  Sheriff David Clark
  Condoleezza Rice

Also note that there doesn't appear to be any common thread among the killers in that article as there is among the killings with connections to either Black Lives Matter or the New Black Panther Party.

You've already lost

[Drunkulus]

I wish you hackers the best of luck, but the GOP has already been totally defaced. Rumor has it that it was an inside job.

Re:of course they run redmond

[CajunArson]

If an incompetently configured Microsoft Exchange server is good enough for God-Emperor Hillary then it is good enough for you, peasant!

Is this democracy in progress?

[magarity]

hijacking the livestream and derailing the GOP's message

Ah yes, the good old "if I disagree with them, I'll just shut them up" tactic. Works wonders in banana republics, let's do it in the US. The ends justify the means, the proles can't be trusted to judge for themselves, and all that. Everyone on either side needs to decide if this is really how they want their democracy to function before taking such actions.

Re:Huh

[Penguinisto]

Prolly because the RNC didn't have one of their major pols stuff all that info onto a semi-swiss-cheese Microsoft Exchange box, running OWA, and plugged directly onto the public Internet...