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FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones (cnn.com)
In what may be part of the original Democratic National Committee hack, the FBI is currently investigating a possible hack involving the cell phones of a small number of Democratic Party staffers. CNN reports: The development comes on the same day Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told lawmakers that 18 states have asked for help in warding off cyberattacks on their electronic voting systems. Law enforcement officials have reached out to the staffers individually about "imaging" their phones to search for evidence of hacking, such as malware. Investigators are still probing whether this attempted hack is part of the original breach of Democratic National Committee emails -- which is widely thought to be the work of the Russian government -- or a new hacking attempt. "Our struggle with the Russian hackers that we announced in June is ongoing -- as we knew it would be -- and we are choosing not to provide general updates unless personal data or other sensitive information has been accessed or stolen," interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile told CNN. Cybersecurity was a major theme at the debate last night between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. While Clinton blamed the Russians for the "election-related cyberintrusions," Trump said "It could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds." We will update this story as it develops.
Online users brush aside weightist comment, just happy to be noticed.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Someone had to do it.
a couple of our own U.S. intelligence services are angry about certain issues, it is them not "Russian Hackers" bothering Obama admin and Hillary campaign.
The Russians, pffffffttt.
That needs to be implemented fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .
is imaging the phones...
and she surrounds herself with equally incompetent staff. I'm not surprised they're being breached left and right by amateurs.
Let's start with the important question: Android or Ios?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
If you find it to be a "struggle" to keep your phones or your computers safe from "Russian hackers", then your party and its candidates are clearly not competent to hold higher office.
The development comes on the same day Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told lawmakers that 18 states have asked for help in warding off cyberattacks on their electronic voting systems.
This is one of those phrases that should result in people instantly being fired but, for some reason, never does.
How long ago did the first Diebold issues come out? And this is still a thing?
I'm almost terrified to ask but these "cyber" attacks they're worried... that wouldn't be a reference to internet based attacks, would it? Did some psychopath finally decide that that best way to fix electronic voting machines was to connect them to the internet in any setup that didn't involve an air gap?
why we have Homeland Security? It's supposed to let the FBI ask the NSA dudes "um, hey. know how to hack these cellphones, or find out if they've been hacked, or even better, know how to make it harder to hack em?"
Cuz we all know the NSA can hack your cell phone 9 ways to friday.
It should never be shared with communists. They just cannot be trusted.
Cyber BS is all I say ...
'Nuff said
No one thinks it's suspicious that the DNC is the target of frequent and recurring attacks, while the Republicans haven't been touched once, and that Trump refuses to blame Russia for anything? No one thinks it's suspicious that several of his advisers have strong ties to Russia? No one thinks it's suspicious he's directly paid by Russia? Good god people, skepticism is helpful in the right amounts, but to pretend this isn't Putin's way of helping his financially submissive bitch into office is naive beyond belief.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Sure, the Russian Government looks out for it's own interests in terms of attempting to sway foreign Governments. So does the USA, just look at the Middle East, Africa, and a good amount of Eastern Europe. Look how much money the US allowed to flow to Serbia, Georgia, the Ukraine. If you believe that Trump is somehow worse for the US than Hillary, or more beneficial to any Foreign power you either don't know Trump's platform (and the reason for his success) or don't care to figure it out.
One could say that Trump is too concerned with US interests, but that's not what people claim. US Allies have concerns about how he would renegotiate our current treaties because he comes off as too hard line for US interests. One could also argue that cutting taxes as much as he plans would have an adverse effect. Again, the arguments all go way the hell out in the weeds to "he loves Russia", and quite frankly that is a losing argument.
They both do business with Russia, and Hillary did hers while serving as Secretary of State. It's pretty obvious that pay for play landed a Russian company exclusive access to about 75% of the Uranium mines in the North America. The Clinton's don't care who's money they take, as long as they believe they gain enough political power in the bargain. If you believe Hillary's claim that she left the office broke, the Clinton duo has banked 111 Million dollars personally, and almost $2,000,000,000.00 for the foundation while she worked as a Public servant and he collected his Presidential retirement. If you believe you rake in 132million a year for giving speeches, I have a bridge for sale.
The one thing I noticed and heard Dennis Prager talk about today was Hillary's plan to force companies to share profits with employees (in addition to a huge hike in Federal minimum wage, extended required paid time off). The level of authoritarianism being published is frightening, and mimics what countries like Russia do today. Companies already off-shore or simply move jobs to avoid excessive taxes, and you think anyone will invest when they receive negative revenue for investing?
Neither candidate is good, but the lies about Trump are helping him more than hurting him. The days of not being able to find information don't currently exist, which is why you can bet your ass that the First amendment will be under assault from day one of a Hillary Presidency. You think Obama is good at ignoring FOIA requests, imagine how she will be.
Posting anonymously since the Hillary shills will hammer any negative post.
If you believe it takes a genius to hack politicians you have never tried. Smart people have real jobs, the slobs that believe they are smart but only qualify to leach off the public are easy targets.
He may have been asked, but I would not be surprised if he refused. Snowden seems to be earnest. Assange, on the other hand, is clearly a spineless Russian tool.
is a russian agent, because she screws up the eu and destroys germany ????
indeed, that could explain a lot.
Why can't someone hurry up and hack Trumps phone for some entertainment?
The researchers at the aforementioned security firm are basing their conclusion on three signals: the hacker used Russian computers to edit PDF files, he also used Russian VPN -- and other internet infrastructure from the country, and that he was unable to speak Romanian.
That's really thin evidence to support the assertion that it's the Russian government. Once you start accusing governments, any government could leave those kinds of clues, including the US governemnt. Non-governmental actors can forge that kind of thing, too.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
is getting so god damned old and long in the tooth. Nobody believed it the first time you tried, and nobody will believe it now.
... of which there is no shortage visiting slashdot, seem to have already established and agreed that the best way to secure an election is to NOT USE COMPUTERS !!!
How much MORE money do you want to spend to only guarantee that your system is still hackable?
Why can't we just go with paper and count them by hand like every other ficking civilised country in the world?
You want to point the blame at the laziness of IT experts. We are the experts, we told you that it can't be done, and you stick your fingers in your ears and tell us to nerd harder. ... we get the election results that we deserve, and none of it is verifiable, none of it is accurate, it isn't even representative because of voter disenfranchisement and polling station "problems", so what does it fucking matter anyway ?
Fuck off, already
It's not like the successful candidate will keep their empty promises either.
Vote Green. Or Purple. Or polka-dotted.
Just don't vote Red or Blue, cause then you are CERTAIN that your vote doesn't really count, because "your guy" isn't going to follow your agenda anyway.
I am sure if they ask the hacker, they didn't intend to break the law.
(I couldn't resist - or is anybody here naÃve enough to believe that Mr. Snowden is not being, er, *asked* to help with their efforts in this regard?)
Why would he even be useful in that regard? He accomplished what he accomplished because at the time he had access. Now he doesn't. He's only useful to Russia as a PR symbol.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
fbi trying to get people to voluntarily allow them to "image" their phones...
run.. fast. do not look back.
captcha: wakeup
Fat chance!
Didn't Hillary have the wet works guys deal with the leaker already?
CLINTON TOP SECRET NO DATA DEVICE DESTRUCTION SCANDAL
I am IT tech. Last project was comprehensive computer monitoring systems. Small part of it is intrusion logging which aren't always correct & and they don't get everything. I read FBI investigation notes. Anything that dealt with classified data Must Be Destroyed and have Destruction Records to prove security was maintained until the end. Most of the devices and computer parts she used for classified documents are missing. Real amateur hour stuff & something not mentioned by FBI. Comie didn't mention the Data Device Destruction Process. The Top secret security Its worse than Goodman's assessment. Most folks aren't aware of this. Most of her devices are still readable with standard tools foreign gov't use as well. Lots of stuff not protected. No evidence of intruder logging system which help track intruders[ Russia claim dubious] Good hackers can bypass these as well. The NSA directives for destroying top security data and devices and record keeping weren't followed. Special legally specified tool and procedures are used. Need honking big shredders that reduce it small bits or burning. While liquids can short out phones and they stop working. Memory and data is fine. SD cards tough. All the data on the 18 missing phones is mostly intact. Just open it up,solder a few wires and you're in.They were hit with a Hammer. These are encased in plastic and metal. Only a lucky strike would damage it. That's why machines were designed. Those would be readable as well. No record of destruction. Law not followed for phones.There were some back up DVD's with data that were just cut in half. Again specific machines to render unreadable. Data on those cut discs is recoverable. Probably ended up in trash. No record of destruction. Law not followed. There was a portable usb hard drive with spining platters. There are some to technical for this audience methods, Disintegration and Incineration. No mention of bleachbit in NSA doc. If it had classified data it needed to be destroyed with the spec tools. No record of destruction.Law not followed Missing laptop with emails. Two different steps required for destruction. No records of destruction.Law broken. A whole bunch of machines with classified data not properly destroyed. IT staff with awareness of anything other than basic office operation security protocols. I don't blame all the IT staff. They weren't told it was Classified and given the NSA asset destruction docs. Its common IT knowledge to use shredder for CD/DVD data. A Dumpster diver at Clinton's or IT site could get classified data and easily extract. There is Shit load of secret data still out there. Now the Cover up IT operation. While the news is on the emails, these undestroyed devices with top secret data are the next part. Any gov't employee would do jail time. Gov't IT staff would know about these procedures for disposal and have staff and the equipment approved here to do. There is no mention of this by Comie. FBI IT staff do these procedures. He's basically writing the incident off as "careless" lost shit without mention of the NSA destruction procedure which has records attached to it. There are no destruction records for any Clinton stuff here which violates this law. Wacking phones with hammers and coffee failure is a breach of it. Lack of proper destruction records is dead easy to prove. I think Comie new this could result in easy to prove charges and didn't comment on it. If he didn't then he's not fit to investigations of this type. Be real funny if Clinton is taken down with this law. House oversight committee will need to deal with this as well. The Case Has been mostly FOIA based. It also has a Secure Assets destruction element not done that no one is talking about . Most the lost devices would be accessible to IT staff of foreign nations. Dumpster diving is an ancient spying tradition that Arrogant Stupids like Clinton make valuable. Given the number of devices used and useless disposal steps my guess is they would get most from her
Media and FBI always fails to mention insiders. Not everyone is corrupt. Internal security is weak. No internal logging. Anyone with a USB and conscience could be helping. The DNC just fessed up to rigging in financial fraud case. Republicans do bad stuff all the time and are okay with it. Assange posted bounty. They are military industrial complex. I suspect much better security from them
Let me guess - you're naïve enough to believe that V. Putin and Russia truly giving Snowden asylum based on strictly humanitarian reasons.
Yes, I know that Snowden is a hero to many slashdotters (despite my assumption that most here have at least a 100 IQ) - so downmod away. Go ahead and keep telling yourself that E. Snowden has done and continues to do what he thinks is in the best interests of the US population. Only - if you intend to paint Snowden as some sort of Robin Hood sticking it to the man, you might want to have a little thing called evidence? The only concrete evidence is Snowden's betrayal of our country, ostensibly for ethical reasons. The evidence of betrayal is incontrovertible; Snowden's assertion of an overriding moral imperitive is not nearly so strongly supported by facts - indeed, the facts tend to bely him.
SUPPORTING CITATION: Federal warrants demanding the criminal extradition for trial naming Edward Snowden as defendant.
CONTRADICTORY CITATION: N/A
No citations or evidence to support my viewpoint. Such a shame common sense isn't.
"you're naïve enough to believe that V. Putin and Russia truly giving Snowden asylum based on strictly humanitarian reasons."
Of course not. He's doing it to stick it to the US. I'm sure Snowden moderates what he says about Russia, but he still criticizes them.
A warrant isn't "evidence." Snowden, whether you agree with him or not, seems to think he was doing the right thing for our country. The existence of a "moral imperative" is a subjective judgment.
IMPORTANT NOTE: A few weeks back the u.s. 'government' proclaimed that anything which interferes with the election will cause the election process to be taken control by homeland security.
Every 3 business days since that proclamation we have heard new information from one of the illegitimate 3-letter agencies purporting to show evidence of just such interference.
This appears very intentional by our oligarchical police state.
Its time that We The People take aim at the real problems.