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Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers
An anonymous reader writes: Hillary Clinton's campaign network was breached by hackers targeting several large Democratic organizations, Reuters reports. Clinton's campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill confirmed the hack in a statement. 'An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the DNC hack. Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,' he said.
The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain.
The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain.
I blame the hack on a Youtube video.
That criminal witch is untouchable, so I don't see the point of further hacks. She should be headed to prison instead of the White House.
America is a liberal country - Love it or leave it.
Point 1: America is 38% conservative and 24% Liberal. (source).
Point 2: "Love it or leave it" is effectively "shut up and sit down". It calls for a suppression of free speech typical of tyrannical, abusive dictatorship. Turkey can say "love it or leave it" with some justification. America cannot.
That criminal witch is untouchable [...]
Insults are the domain of the Democrats, have some couth. Republicans don't generally use insult as a substitute for rational thinking, that's a Democratic play.
We could easily build stories about Hillary being Marie Antoinette ("let them eat cake"), or Lucrecia Borgia (for all Clinton's opponents who have died under mysterious circumstances), or even Lilith ("Mother of demons"). Some of them would even have a rational basis. It would be a counterpoint to Trump being Hilter, Stalin, or Cthulhu.
But we don't, because we believe the head rules the heart. We have smart people here at Slashdot, we don't have to descend to common name calling.
"Heart rules the head", IOW emotional thinking, is what Democrats do.
We don't *need* to spout lies or insults.
Don't descend to their level.
(And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)
Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
I see regular attempts to get into my mail server, almost all of them from Russia or eastern european countries and a lesser extent China. I'd love to just blackhole all of Russia. Most spam attempts come from Russia and to a lesser extent China from what I see in my logs.
This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
2) If you are mad enough to consider voting for Trump does the fact that the Russian's are trying to help him put you off. If it does who do you vote for?
That's an interesting point.
I think the Russians did the country an enormous favour by bringing the actions of the Democratic party to light. It's like Snowden outing all the illegal activity of the intelligence organizations.
I'd be completely OK if they, or some other country, did the same thing to the Republicans. It would only shine a light on the corruption, and help bring us to a more fair political process.
And we also have to consider recent events. Our own Federal Election Commission won't investigate massive money laundering that effectively neutralized Sanders campaign funds, or working directly against the Sanders campaign.
Also, the GCHQ was hacking around the Arab Spring, and the US deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran and put the Shah in power.
We can't blame Russia for doing what every other country is doing, and that we are doing as well.
The Democrats would have every right to be upset except that they were involved in massive wrongdoing!
I want to know how much money Trump really owes to the Russian oligarchs? Would he pay them back in political favors if he become president?
Who cares if her server was hacked? It never stored any classified information, and if hacked, all they would get is her yoga routines & wedding plans for her daughter.
We have the assurances of the Clinton herself to validate that truth with.
Perhaps the servers would have been safer at her house?
-Styopa
I thought it was "hack me twice, won't get hacked again".
Can you give me the quote that asked that? I've been following the story pretty closely and never saw anything like that. I think you're just drawing conclusions from headlines, just like they want you to.
Quotes please.
Just google "trump russia hack" or something, it's everywhere.
Yeah. You got nothing, because it didn't happen. And in the end, facts matter.
I wonder if they found those missing emails?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
*Sigh* He's not saying it didn't happen, he's saying he was being sarcastic when he said it.
And so what? What's the obsession here?
Ezekiel 23:20
Yeah, who cares if one of the most powerful people in the world violated federal law and put national security at risk. Stop obsessing about it.
No, I'm saying that trump never asked Russia to hack Hillary's server.
I didn't previously respond to your post because I want to encourage you and posters like you. Don't get discouraged when other people jump on what you wrote.
You raise a valid point, and it should be discussed. I'd like to see you get an account and repost this, and any other rational points you want to make, so that we can discuss these issues.
Clinton will come up again as a topic, let's take this up at that time.
For now, I unreservedly admit that your post is good and you've completed the challenge.
Repeating my reply to another similar post : I'm definitely not a Trump supporter, but I have to take issue with that statement. He didn't call for hacking, he said that they should "find" the missing emails. Since the server is already off-line, it's not there to be hacked.
Presumably, he is suggesting that the server had probably already been hacked (maybe by any number of individuals or countries) and he thinks they could be found.
Why stop there? How about if he never said any of the things that he admits that he said and there's clips of him saying?
Look. He never asked Russia to hack Hillary's server. You know this.
Can you give me the quote that asked that? I've been following the story pretty closely and never saw anything like that. I think you're just drawing conclusions from headlines, just like they want you to.
I assume you're playing cute with semantics, because he doesn't actually asked them to hack her emails, he asks them to "find" the emails. The implication being of course that they already hacked them.
It's not hugely better of course, rather than asking Russia to hack her server he's saying that it's great that Russia hacked her server, and Russia should use that intel to help his campaign.
And of course his backtrack that he was being "sarcastic" is stupid. But since it was obviously Trump talking he couldn't blame it on a young intern.
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Now we're starting to get somewhere. What would have been better would be if there was no question about the security of Hillary's emails in the first place.
The idea is that if Hillary/Clinton/DNC/Inc. email gets hacked enough, no one will be able to find evidence of the H"Hillary Clinton Email Controversy" on the internet any more.
The law is not an ass. No really.
Now we're starting to get somewhere. What would have been better would be if there was no question about the security of Hillary's emails in the first place.
It would be great if Obama could be chummier with Republican legislators.
It would be great if Sanders was a little more wonkish and had a solid economic plan and foreign policy.
It would be great if Trump was competent, honest, or remotely sane.
There's no such thing as a perfect candidate, it defies belief that among everything else people are now looking at an ill-advised email server as some sort of failed litmus test.
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Right. It was just an I'll advised email server. You're judgement is worse than Hillary's.
Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
You mean that sarcastically, but it's basically true. Hacking a server is one thing. Hacking a server without leaving any tracks whatsoever is insanely difficult. Hillary Clinton's server was examined by top FBI forensic analysts, and no breach was detected. This is unlike the system she supposedly "should" have been using, OpenNet (the state.gov email system), which has been hacked so many times, they judge them by how bad they are Sources: State Dept. hack the 'worst ever'. Every other hack has been detected and analyzed - it strains credulity that of all these emails servers, only clintonemail.com would have been hacked so perfectly that there was no trace left, even in the many backups.
This doesn't mean that the Russians don't have her emails, since anything sent to a state.gov email address was copied by them. But that's not Secretary Clinton's fault, and the sheer incompetence of State's IT department (their "solution" to her emails going to people's spam bucket wasn't to whitelist clintonemail.com, but to turn off all spam filtering), lends credence to the idea that she was just trying to work around some very incompetent people in the bureaucracy to get her job done.
What is absolutely proven at this point, is that if she'd done things the "right way", then all her emails would be now in the possession of foreign intelligence agencies. Having clintonemail.com didn't hurt, and may in certain ways, helped.
Most transparent campaign ever.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
Okay, first off Clinton was not hacking together an email server in visual basic in her spare time. She probably didn't understand the security implications herself, and hired someone she thought competent, who obviously wasn't. Most likely it had whatever passes for the default security Microsoft provides, which is not horrible, but not world class either. It also likely had all the automatic updates, which are pretty important these days. I have no idea if it was hacked, but I do know what was. The official state department email system was hacked. email hack
It seems to me that while running her own was a bad idea, the net result was no different. Also, running your own server is in no way shape or form illegal. It is unwise, but not illegal. The real problem was accidentally sending a small amount of classified material through that system. That is known as a data spill, and may have been easier to clean up if it was on the government system, but in no way shape or form was the official system rated for classified material either. That would be a completely different system.
The only completely secure system is one that is not connected to an external network, and then it is only secure from external threats. You can increase the security by isolating systems behind VPNs and generally being very careful with what runs on every connected system. Of course then you have to sill update things, which adds complexity.
Now, I watch quite a bit of news, and no one is really giving Clinton a free pass here. So pretending that she is getting one is just not true. What is true is that she is far better than the alternative, and, like it or not, it is for all intents and purpose a binary choice.
Finally, all of this is why it is necessary and vital for encryption to thrive. Encrypt by default. Isolate applications by default. Applications should be able to write to their own areas, but nothing else should be able to. Application data needs to be encrypted with unique keys, so even if a process can run as root, it can't access another processes data. Any key storage needs to be particularly hardened. Defense in depth needs to be by design. Any time you hear a three letter agency tell you that encryption is bad, remind them of this crap.
I predict that more political campaigns and such will switch, if they haven't already done so to BSD and similar variants, that take security seriously. Well, either that or they might just switch to solid web providers that take security seriously by default.
Right. It was just an I'll advised email server. You're judgement is worse than Hillary's.
So you think she's the devil incarnate, so what? The choice is Hillary or Trump so it should be Hillary by a landslide.
If I were American I'd vote for Bush II over Trump, hell I'd vote for Nixon over Trump.
The guy's been running for President for over a year and he still knows nothing about policy nor has he shown the ability to exhibit self-control for any period longer than a few hours. Can you really imagine him reacting well to even the mildest crisis?
I stole this Sig
Forgive me if some of us don't get all weepy
and faux offended over the GP's hyperbole.
The woman is an international gangster
whose entire adult life has been, essentially,
a crime in progress. She should be incarcerated...
in all seriousness.
Turn in your Nerd Card, it has been revoked!
Once a machine is compromised, absolutely nothing on it can be trusted. With full access to a machine, log files can be erased or modified to cover all traces of intrusion. Couple this with the fact the machine was wiped, like with a cloth, and it is plainly obvious that any forensic analysis will be a waste of time. The fact is, the server in question was actively running insecure services on Internet facing ports, insecure as in there were known exploits at the time.
It was once reported that a fresh install of Windows (an ancient version) would be compromised within minutes (10-15?) of being connected to the Internet due to the number of random scans. Clinton's server was running a wide-open vulnerable service for MONTHS. Let that sink in.
Stay classy.
Does Trump have a long history of being bribed and offering services in return of those bribes? Because Hillary has.
Mind you, I am not a fan of Donald Trump; I think he's moron and a jingoist, but he scares me less than Clinton. With Clinton I am sure we'll (meaning the entire world, since I don't even live in the US) will be plunged in wars. She just doesn't care, she has already created misery in parts of the world as a secretary of state.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Hillary was actually the first person on the right side of Citizens United. Has she taken campaign contributions from corporations? Sure, but so has every other presidential candidate in history.
The reason why Wall St is backing Hillary is not because they want favors, it's because they don't want to see a con artist destroy the stock market.
How's this for context: this article is about the Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, not mass surveillance, unjustified wars, or previous administrations. Hillary's server is especially relevant.
Well I guess we know which channel you get your news from.
Oh I think I see. If it wasn't on Fox News it didn't really happen. I guess there's no point arguing with that.
Down the list:
An insider walks it out and the hint about another nation is the pre placed cover story that holds thanks to fragments left for any teams looking over systems later.
The insider is fully protected and pre placed cover story holds for decades.
So many people and other nations are discovered have had physical and network access that a short list of skilled nations is selected from and thats the presentable story.
A person or group uses a list of common tools and finds a huge number of other nations and people are also accessing the data. A trail is created to what is expected.
A smaller power or allied nation with insider help feels the need to see the material released and uses advance methods to ensure a common adversarial nation gets the full blame. i.e. they have their own virtual methods like QUANTUMSQUIRREL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fragments of past tools, ip ranges, time of day would not be left by any advanced nation or other method. Someone created a trail, wants the trail to be found or understood the result would be great cover.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Come on, how many wedding plans can her daughter possibly have? 5000 max? Still, that leaves 25000 yoga exercises, and that's just hard to believe, to say the least.
Neither the FBI nor anyone else found that any laws were violated. So stop obsessing about it!
(...) She probably didn't understand the security implications herself, and hired someone she thought competent, who obviously wasn't.
How competent is she to hire someone she thought is competent? That's the whole point and the prime reason these matters should be left in the hands of the experts at the government level. It these so called experts are not experts, solve the problem there in first place. Do not spread the problem by adding more unsecure stuff in a vain effort to make it secure.
Achille Talon
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Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.
Hillary Clinton's server was examined by top FBI forensic analysts, and no breach was detected.
As far as I know, FBI didn't say no breach was detected. So, reference please. What came out of the FBI is it is not possible to relate Clinton to the breach or prove without doubt in order to build a case for court on the evidence they have Clinton's responsability. By all means, this doesn't mean not breach was discovered.
Achille Talon
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Neither the FBI nor anyone else found that any laws were violated. So stop obsessing about it!
WUT?!?!?!?!
Evidence Hillary Clinton Broke Federal Laws And Jeopardized National Security, No Charges Recommended... WTF, FBI?!
FBI Director James Comey gave a press conference on Tuesday, July 5th, discussing in surprising detail the three main aspects of the investigation: What they did (a lot). What they found (she broke the law and jeopardized national security). ...
And that's the Huffington Post - hardly a hotbed of anti-Democrat obsessions.
What's the color of the sky on your planet? Because it sure as shit ain't blue.
I'm not obsessed about it, actually. I don't particularly care about US federal law or national security anyway. What I find somewhat more troubling is attempts almost on the eve of elections at conveniently removing one of two major candidates for the leadership of a global superpower in a world I happen to live in, even if I happen to live in a different part of it.
Ezekiel 23:20
Oh, laws were violated. They just were excused. Comey is on record saying that anyone else Hillary caught doing what Hillary did with the same evidence, would be prosecuted. How does that sit with you? I guess it sits pretty good as long as some ass official says it's ok for one but not for anyone else. Try getting past your cognitive dissonance. You're failed logic is the pillar of corruption.
It came out about a year ago, far from the eve of the election. And it concluded before the convention. The FBI doesn't get to choose when some corrupt asshole breaks the law and the info leaks out.
I want to know how much money Trump really owes to the Russian oligarchs? Would he pay them back in political favors if he become president?
To be quite honest, I suspect the reason that Trump doesn't want to release his tax data is because he's pretty broke. I mean that relatively, of course. I'm not saying he's on the verge of destitution but I am guessing his tax returns show just how much of a fraud his entire life is.
The Clinton campaign was not hacked. That's a misreport. The DNC was hacked. Two organizations. Two networks. Two different sets of staff.
The misreport is like saying that because VISA was hacked, Bank of America was hacked. No. Bank of America does buy services from VISA and they are impacted by a (theoretical) VISA hack but that doesn't mean that they have automagically been hacked solely because VISA has.
And no, Hillary's email server wasn't hacked either. Some of the folks she communicated with were hacked. She was not.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion.
So where does he ask them to hack Hillary's server?
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Once a machine is compromised, absolutely nothing on it can be trusted. With full access to a machine, log files can be erased or modified to cover all traces of intrusion.
Actually that's not strictly true. If services are properly protected with MAC like SELinux or Capsicum, it is entirely possible for a daemon like an MTA/MDA to get compromised, exfiltrate all the spools it has access to, but be impossible for it to erase the system logs as it isn't running with ambient authority. Ditto for jailed services. Ditto for quality hardware like IBM AIX boxes and mainframes, which have separate hardware and processors for storing audit logs. Ditto for servers that are setup competently, because they log to an external, separately secured log server (basically what AIX and z do, except the log server is integrated inside the physical enclosure).
Of course servers designed to competent security engineering standards aren't typically hackable, and follow the POLA principle to minimise the harm and exposure if they are hackable. Writing code with Capsicum or pledge for example is incredibly not-difficult; people not putting these basic and easy to use techniques into practice are wilfully negligent.
It's not tongue in cheek. If you look at the exact words he used in an objective manner, he never called for them to hack hillary's server.
Why don't you cut and paste them for me. I know why you won't do that. It would expose the fact that you're lying. I have read all the quotes, and none of them ask Russia to hack Hillary's server.
What I want to know is since all these liberals know that Russia has a time machine what does the USA need to do to get one?
Who cares if her server was hacked? It never stored any classified information, and if hacked, all they would get is her yoga routines & wedding plans for her daughter.
We have the assurances of the Clinton herself to validate that truth with.
Here is a short (One minute, 40 seconds) film showing the inside story of the yoga routines and emails and a stunning analysis of its impact.
Mrs, Clinton and Yoga
(If she is taking so much yoga, why is she still wearing pantsuits?)
And so what? What's the obsession here?
Well, Trump gave them permission to hack her.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.