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Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the difference-of-opinion dept.

After Newsweek published a report titled "How Donald Trump's Company Violated The United States Embargo Against Cuba," the site found itself on the receiving end of a "massive" denial-of-service attack that managed to shut down the site for several hours. TPM reports: Editor-In-Chief Jim Impoco noted that the attack came as the story earned national attention. "Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a 'massive' DoS (denial of service) attack," Impoco wrote in an email to TPM. "The site was down most of last evening, at a time when Kurt Eichenwald's story detailing how Donald Trump's company broke the law by violating the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was being covered extensively by prominent cable news programs. Our IT team is still investigating the hack." Later Friday afternoon, Impoco emailed TPM that in an initial investigation, the "main" IP addresses linked to the attack were found to be Russian. It should be noted that it is possible to fake an IP address. "As with any DDoS attack, there are lots of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian, though that in itself does not prove anything," he wrote. "We are still investigating." Eichenwald tweeted Friday morning: "News: The reason ppl couldnt read #TrumpInCuba piece late yesterday is that hackers launched a major attack on Newsweek after it was posted."

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  1. Putin has Trump's back... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a bromance.

    1. Re:Putin has Trump's back... by swalve · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nope. All we are being asked to believe is that he is a petty, vain man with lots of money. That explains just about everything.

    2. Re:Putin has Trump's back... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      He called her "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping", both sexist and racist. He clearly was not referring to her contractual obligation.

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  2. potential backfire by VernonNemitz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The more that Americans perceive that Russia thinks that electing Trump will be good for Russia, the more likely Americans might also think that electing Trump might not be so good for America.

    1. Re:potential backfire by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2

      The more that Americans perceive that Russia thinks that electing Trump will be good for Russia, the more likely Americans might also think that electing Trump might not be so good for America.

      That was my thought also, but in the context of a false-flag operation arranged by the Dems to bring further discredit down upon The Donald. You'd think that seeing him constantly step on his own dick would be enough to convince people not to vote for him, but there are lots of voters who still imagine his presidency would be good for them. And they're the same kinds of people who still carry the old Cold War grudge and have a hate on for them Russkies. I wouldn't put it past Democratic strategists to take advantage of that, if they thought they could get away with it.

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  3. The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by gweihir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are authoritarian followers, that fight anybody that disagrees with them with violence. They are irrational and dangerous. They are unable to find a middle-ground with others. This is the same type of people that are responsible for countless mass-murders throughout history and have establishes countless totalitarian states. These people are the enemy of anybody not in their camp. And they destroy nations.

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    1. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by arbiter1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Its only Anti-trump/pro-clinton fools you see stealing sign's outta people's front yards or BURNING them.

    2. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by HBI · · Score: 3, Interesting

      A Kia that I own with a Trump sticker in Baltimore got vandalized to the tune of $2500 in July. I appreciated the new paintjob, since I have a $100 comp deductible, but the person did it to be a criminal douchebag.

      My yard sign has been ripped up 3 times in a Baltimore suburb. I have had dog shit dumped on my lawn 4 or 5 times. Eventually I installed cameras and caught the motherfuckers, who got fined and harassed by the cops, but it was fundamentally a waste of money to deal with the scumbag local Democrats.

      Recurrent theme around here, and a number of the houses in the neighborhood have pulled up their signs to avoid the bullshit. Isn't changing how they are voting, though.

      So yeah, about those Trump supporters...?

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    3. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by ArtemaOne · · Score: 2

      I totally agree! Like you said they're just like Clinton fans.

    4. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by Bender+Unit+22 · · Score: 2

      Sounds familiar. :D
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    5. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by whoever57 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The really gold standard of stupidity is that some Trump supporters think that there is a sizeable population of 1%-ers who are quaking in their boots at the thought of a Trump presidency.

      These dumbfucks actually think that Trump will bring about change that will be against the desires of the wealthy.

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    6. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Eventually I installed cameras and caught the motherfuckers, who got fined and harassed by the cops...

      Your troll would have come across as more credible if you had managed to avoid the temptation to feed your ego with that embellishment. Harassed you say, golly.

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    7. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Trump, the best president that money can buy. The best. 100 percent.

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    8. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by swalve · · Score: 2

      She isn't the one trying to restrict people's rights and put up border walls and calling minorities criminals. She hasn't advocated any war crimes or assassinations that I know of.

    9. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by swalve · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They are the same idiots who fell for the tea party. They are the conservative version of occupy wall street. Petulent simpletons falling for the myth of the simple solution.

    10. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by yuriklastalov · · Score: 3, Informative

      You don't seem to understand. It's bad to say Islam causes terrorism because not all Muslims are terrorists. It's good to say all Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers because some Trump supporters are authoritarian, fascist bootlickers.

      Also, it's not a double standard when your ideology is actually the one favored by the universe itself, possessed and composed of only truth and fact. For the Trump supporters out there, that means the modern American Progressive movement is based entirely on truth and fact, and it is the only ideology which is so comprised.

      Suck it, conservative scum, the left is TRUTH, the left is FACT, the left is LOVE. I hope you all die horrible deaths at the hands of those you hate so much.

    11. Re: The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by cunina · · Score: 2

      Fighting fascism with censorship and intimidation? That's like fighting obesity with onion rings.

    12. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious by ooloorie · · Score: 2

      Fascism and socialism are entirely different in their nature.

      Actually, they are almost identical in their nature: they are both fiercely anti-capitalist, they both advocate a supposedly temporary period of totalitarian government in order to achieve their goals, and they both promise to take from the rich and give to the poor. They mainly differ in some details, such as their beliefs about race, religion, and nationhood. In practice, they both lead to poverty, violence, oppression, police states, and economic collapse.

  4. Correlation? by ichthus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did Newsweek publish any other stories that day (or that week)? Is there a definite correlation between that publishing of that story and the DDOS?

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    1. Re:Correlation? by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2

      Good point. It could have been Brad or Angelina's minions. Or they did a story on Justin Bieber's new girlfriend and all the Beliebers couldn't handle it.

      I mean, it could have been anybody.

  5. I for one am shocked by barakn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... just shocked that Trump supporters don't believe in the 1st Amendment right to free speech. I truly thought they had the Bill of Rights tattooed on their thighs.

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  6. We get the government we deserve by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    In before the first post saying that a DDOS attack is actually free speech.

    Meanwhile, the orange tweaker-in-chief is up at 3am rage-posting about some chick that wouldn't sleep with him 15 years ago.

    http://www.salon.com/2016/09/3...

    I think God's just fucking with us now.

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    1. Re:We get the government we deserve by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

      If four or five years ago you'd been in a creative writing class and written a story detailing this election and Trump's role in it, it would have been panned as "ridiculous", "unrealistic", "pure nuttery" and "impossible"....but here we are.

      If you'd written about a presidential candidate who bragged about being able to shoot people in the middle of the street with without losing a single voter, the teacher would have told you that the scene was childishly unbelievable in the extreme.

      If you'd written that the candidate ran on a platform of wanting to deport 11 million people, you'd have been laughed out of the room.

      If you wrote a scene where the candidate publicly trashed a widely-respected war hero, the book would end about two pages later with him going down in flames.

      I mean, maybe we are living in a simulation, because this just doesn't seem like reality to me.

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    2. Re:We get the government we deserve by riskkeyesq · · Score: 2

      Let's just agree that we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.

  7. Re:Donnie poo pays Russian hackers by barakn · · Score: 3, Funny

    This -1 score was brought you today by the letter E... and by paid Russian trolls http://www.businessinsider.com...

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  8. Re: Trump's a D-Bag, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it is exceptionally safe to say that any of their "supporters" are in fact "fanatics." They would have to be in order to generate the suspension of disbelief and maniacal myopia necessary to support either of them. Their flaws are like something straight out of bad fiction, and yet here they are, the first runner up and the winner of the most "powerful job on the planet."

    Hillary is a run-of-the-mill politician. Far from the worst by any stretch of the imagination of someone who actually understand politics. Trump is a run-of-the-mill attention-whoring media animal. Also far fro the worst of the genre.

    Meanwhiile, your shrill denunciations are pretty extreme.

  9. Re:IRS by swalve · · Score: 2, Informative

    That IRS thing was determined to be non partisan after all. There was an increase in enforcement of 501c3 orgs, but it happened more or less equally to both sides.

  10. Or 100 other stories they ran this week by raymorris · · Score: 2

    It's also *very* possible that the attack has absolutely nothing to do with that particular story. The site an probably a hundred stories or more just in the past week alone. So far I've heard zero evidence that the attack has anything at all with that particular story or any story about any political jerkoff.

  11. In mainstream. A few days after Julian Assange sto by raymorris · · Score: 2

    I have no doubt this story got the most attention in the mainstream press. The attack was also a few days after a Julian Assange story, for example, and Clinton/DNC stories (we know hackers have an interest in the DNC.) Might some hacker respond to a Julian Assange story? Maybe. There's simply no evidence at all as to what the hacker's motive was.