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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Let's ignore the emails about rigging the election and instead focus on how these hackers are trying to rig the election.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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
Hop!
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.
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.
So where does he ask them to hack Hillary's server?