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Hacker Leaks Michelle Obama's Passport (nypost.com)
The hacker who leaked Colin Powell's private email account last week has struck again. This time they have hacked a low-level White House staffer and released a picture of Michelle Obama's passport, along with detailed schedules for top U.S. officials and private email messages. New York Post reports: The information has been posted online by the group DC Leaks. The White House staffer -- who also apparently does advance work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- is named Ian Mellul. The released documents include a PowerPoint outline of Vice President Joe Biden's recent Cleveland trip, showing his planned route, where he'll meet with individuals and other sensitive information, according to the Daily Mail. In an email to The Post, the hacker writes, "The leaked files show the security level of our government. If terrorists hack emails of White House Office staff and get such sensitive information we will see the fall of our country." The hacker adds, "We hope you will tell the people about this criminal negligence of White House Office staffers."
Yeah, I totally believe you're an American. Totally. Look, this is my not-being-sarcastic face.
"You abandoned me! You abandoned my hatred!" "I... I have cuttlefish..."
Only 5 years? No middle name? Seems suspicious.
I suppose all of these stupid hacks make us all more security conscious. That's good.... right?
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
NT
This is how it should be. Organizations need to embarrassed and publicly shamed for having lousy security. Otherwise they will never fix it (see also: linkedin, yahoo, verizon, etc). If they don't fix their security, terrorists win.
Irresponsible disclosure is responsible
Hold on, why is she allowed to smile on her passport? This is bullshit
you know the election was hacked by the Soviets.
How do I add freon to my cpu cooler? It runs hotter now than before.
Have the "hacker" come forward and prove they accessed files remotely through the internet. Otherwise this could be an angry-ex grudge attack.
>> The White House staffer -- who also apparently does advance work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- is named Ian Mellul.
The one thing the dox's have in common is that they show the Democratic party trying to have a democracy/debate-free transition of power from Obama to Clinton. And this dual-employed "staffer" would seem to fit the profile.
The group most pissed about the attempted coronation has been Bernie supporters, i.e., anyone leaning left and under 45. That also happens to be most of the IT security gurus I know. (The rest tend to be intelligent and right-leaning and have therefore tuned out both remaining candidates.) So...why are people trying to say "the Russians" when it seems more likely that the hackers are Bernie supporters ticked off that the Democrats kneecapped the only viable progressive in a generation?
The backdrop picture in the passport is hilarious.
What a total disaster, I sure wish there was a way to make our country great again....
It's not real.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I like the way you make points. You just say stuff, and it sounds right to you, so it must be a good theory. Because you're smart, and you see the world the way it is.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Illinois, birther.
This along with the huge Yahoo email hack, maybe repurpose IBM-360s? I don't think those beasts were ever hacked. Yeah, just being sarcastic as only way for me to vent about all these hacks.
mfwright@batnet.com
Sorry, it was the White House that made Cheddar Mussolini the Republican nominee?
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The Plausible Denial is of course to blame it on the Russkies.
In reality it a a service so secret it does not have an official member list. They use a communication system which NSA does not even know it exists. They like to hide their men in candybar makers and at caterpillar.
They use highly covert means to connect to the internet. Sometimes they work as sysadmins. Then they expose while concurrently spreading the ideas the Russkies did it.
Let's call the service PATRIOTS.
It is Al CIA Qaeda.
Are you a fucking idiot? Any party is going to want a smooth transition between offices. Literally every party does this, ever, because why would you fire all your staffers and hire new ones when you already have the talent working for you? Bernie would have inherited Obama's staff too.
There's also no Hawaii in Illinois. GP is a fucking twit, no surprise.
You start okay, because yeah many of us are fed up with a political class running ram-shod over the rest of us so that they can work toward their global domination agenda. Obama's UN speech made it clear that he does not care as much about sovereignty as he does about that agenda. The "We" in his speech that need to make sacrifices to support that end do not include him and the political class who has been wiping their ass with the US Constitution for decades. You in Europe are not much better off, but in fairness we have lost much more liberty because we had more.
Then, you go off to the deep end. Most intellectuals working in security are for personal Liberty, which is the exact opposite of Sanders. That leaves us with Trump as the only hope, which does not have great odds but it's better than a very well known liar. Sanders attracted crusaders who are not well educated in history, not the students of history. Sanders was shat upon, but that was in the cards when he was chosen to run against her. He got a decent retirement plan for his efforts, he's not too worried. People who followed him on the other hand found the system to be corrupt and many have dropped out. Study Communist transformation, and you will see that demoralizing the populace is requirement in large doses. This crap was well known 50 years ago and published by defecting KGB agents.
Why do people say "Russians"? That is a multi-part answer. The easiest is that it takes people's eyes away from the wrong doing you started with. Will this double dipping person face any penalty for shafting tax payers? Will the people who employed her? Obama is running around on Tax payer dollars for Hillary fundraisers and campaign purposes. But hey, look at those stinky Russians.
I'll grant you that the game is complex, but it's not "that" complex if you focus on the team playing. They own the media and own most politicians, and it's a club that you can't join.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Sorry, it was the White House that made Cheddar Mussolini the Republican nominee?
xxJonBoyxxx's use of "coronation" means he's been listening to way too much talk radio. So, yes, he probably does believe Hillary is behind the selection of such a poor Republican candidate.
I don't know who the hell did it. He got a total of four votes in my precinct caucus.
The comments here are some of the most retarded and toxic that I've ever seen on slashdot.
>> The White House staffer -- who also apparently does advance work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- is named Ian Mellul.
The one thing the dox's have in common is that they show the Democratic party trying to have a democracy/debate-free transition of power from Obama to Clinton. And this dual-employed "staffer" would seem to fit the profile.
The group most pissed about the attempted coronation has been Bernie supporters, i.e., anyone leaning left and under 45. That also happens to be most of the IT security gurus I know. (The rest tend to be intelligent and right-leaning and have therefore tuned out both remaining candidates.) So...why are people trying to say "the Russians" when it seems more likely that the hackers are Bernie supporters ticked off that the Democrats kneecapped the only viable progressive in a generation?
Can you please provide evidence that this dual-hat person shows malicious intent? I would expect at least a couple of people to be interfacing with both the Clinton campaign as well as the Trump campaign. If either of them wins, they will need to start operating as the POTUS within 2-ish months, and that's a very short time for a transition. (Remember the big news about how Trump would start having classified intelligence briefings back after the Republican convention?)
I'll admit it sounds bad, and I'm very prepared to believe that this does show conspiratorial leanings. However, speaking for myself, I would want more than just an observation which can easily be explained by innocent circumstances.
If we're going to just make shit up with no evidence, why not say it was aliens?
How is it that we can have everything on the Democrats hacked, *everything*, but not one little thing comes out from the RNC? I find that highly suspicious.
Perhaps the RNC is paying someone or is colluding with the Soviets to hack the election.
If only Anonymous could obtain Trump's taxes to even the score a bit...
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Well, you probably live in an old-school Republic precinct. The kind of town where folks at they Y thoughtfully leave their back issues of Rich Protestant Golfer magazine behind so others will have something to read on the treadmill. The kind of place where you serve your guests drinks in the living room, not on the kitchen table. Good people, but sometimes a little obtuse about how the other 80% live.
Trump locked down the non-traditionals, and the rest of the Republicans were splitting the traditional R vote a dozen ways. Add to that primary rules that were written to favor early front runners. Those rules worked like a charm: instead of the agony of prolonged uncertainty the party suffered the agony of premature certainty.
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Maybe Trump's company didn't use the lowest bidder on all of their IT projects.
Maybe it was Russians, maybe it was Bernians. Since we don't know which, let's use a term which includes both - communists.
Nobody needs to hack the RNC to make Trump look like a poor choice for president, he does that every time he talks without a script.
SORRY but this is a FAKE! Look at the issue and expiration dates.... It shows it's only good for 5 years. REAL U.S. Adult passports are good for 10 years!
The Truth is a Virus!!!
The head of the FBI has stated that this year they "are gathering the data" for an "intelligent conversation" next year about "encryption". I think this type of story should be catalogued, indexed, made available for that conversation. Add to that the just revealed 500 Million account hack at Yahoo. Encrypted files would have made these vacuum cleaner jobs a bit harder ...cm
> They get credit from the true evil in this world
They a Capital One card?
IBM 360s were used by hackers. I did it.
Had a job programming IBM360s for the Govt. Did some amazing things on those and hacked a crap-load of code together for them.
You've seen my work, I'm positive. Ever see a space shuttle launch or land? http://history.nasa.gov/comput... - shuttle GN&C computers were modified IBM 360s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - jump to 1 min into the video and be amazed at how perfect that landing is. That's my code dude. After maingear touchdown, the astronauts don't really control the elevons.
That is a nice smile. She must have some special privileges to be able to smile on passport photo. Unlike us mere mortals that are forever grumpy looking on our photos.
What's the problem?
A modern equivalent of the Boston Tea Party. Only instead of throwing tea into the bay we throw the politicians from DC into it!
I am less sure what you should do if they successfully swim back to shore, or worse yet: float. Some of them are big enough to float. Should you harpoon them like a whale, or introduce some sharks or orcas?
True. When there were four or five candidates vying for the Republican nomination, all beat Clinton in head-to-head polling, except Trump. The primary voters chose the candidate who may be worse than Clinton.
I sure would like to see a good president again. I don't even care too much whether it's a good Democrat or a good Republican. Kennedy or Reagan, either would be a huge improvement over this year's choices and the last few presidents. For younger people, the best president of their lifetime is a guy who simply didn't do much, gpod or bad. A president who spent most of his time chasing women and trying to cover up his womanizing. Sad.
Michelle Obama was born in Umbwandanabe, Kenya, Illinois, Hawaii?
Learn to love Alaska
I assume that the hack was done through some form of social engineering and/or that social engineering played a part leading up to the hack. Could be someone calling posing as an IT Help Desk staff, could be a "forged" email with a "funny" attachment, or getting someone to follow a link to a page with malicious code.
Directly hacking an email server through a firewall without being on the inside of the network is extremely though and would require as a minimum some unknown zero day exploit ... it would also most likely result in the entire server compromised and not one (or a few) account(s).
Getting back to "What I dont get ...."
In literally all companies I worked at there has been new-starter security training to educated about "social engineering" and other attempts of getting inside information to use in an attack. In my current companies we even every 12 month do a security awareness training and refresher course (online learning) that everyone has to do (and those that do not complete the course in time will be locked out from the network!) to reinforces this.
Considering this is the While House, a "prime target" for hacks, I don't get that they are not more rigorous with training staff in these dangers and how to mitigate and identify them - this is even more important at the low level functions where you may have increased turnover, less awareness/less knowledge in general about security/threats, less knowledge about IT in general etc.
I am utterly surprised that these things happen again and again and believe it to be a failure by management NOT to train their staff adequately and rigorously.
Will this disgrace ever end?
As we choose between a person who has unquestionably betrayed the United States of America and some douche bag I have hated since he proclaimed, "You are fired!" I seriously question the integrity of the USA. I watch as our country continues to fail at having even a ghost of decent representation. How is it that the worst of humanity leads us?
How it is that... this... is our first lady?
How can we condemn dictators when this human trash, Bush, Clinton, and Obama... lead us.
When people from other countries condemn us I find that I can't really fault their logic.
This world is broken and the United States of America really can't claim leadership in this world when we continually fail this world.
We need to fix this failure, and perhaps we need the efforts of others to fix this problem as our leaders are a sickening joke upon humanity.
One could extrapolate that we must be worthless idiots if this... trash... we make our leadership.
Wait a minute... since when were you allowed to smile in a passport photo?
I had to resubmit my passport application once because the photo provided apparently involved a smirk. Really not kidding.
Or do what Hilliary did and set up their own server. For all of the fuss that was made about it, she was never actually hacked and most of the emails were eventually released by the state department to anyone who wanted to see them. Goes to show that using government servers doesn't guarantee anything, and that's not even considering people like Snowden.
The contractors don't get much funding after suggesting correctly everyday police work will uncover the insider.
With experts pushing Russia, China in the press, contractors can request huge new software support rentals and hardware investments, bid for ongoing gov staff training.
Then upgrades and a new generation of security related software and hardware will keep that ubiquitous Skilled Bear v 3.0 out of any gov network.
Academic grants to study other nations educational structures, write reports on the kind of code patterns their best university graduates will be unable to hide.
Having a real nation as the origin to show political leaders is a corporate and academic funding dream. Suggesting a local police effort to find an insider will get a real result but no big contracts or grants.
So expect a lot of people online with a mil, gov background to be pushing early and wild stories about traces of code, other nations ip ranges, time zones, logs been found.
Why let a cyber crisis to go to waste and not cash in on decades of no bid federal cyber funding by suggest police interview a few staff members?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
FSFS...
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama] was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, ...
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I believe the quote was "adult conversation".
Fuck that guy.
When we got ours smiles were forbidden.