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The Next President Will Face a Cybercrisis Within 100 Days, Predicts Report (cnbc.com)
The next president of the United States will face a cybercrisis within 100 days, predicts report from analysts at Forrester. The crisis could come as a result of hostile actions from another country or internal conflict over privacy and security legislation, said Forrester analyst Amy DeMartine, lead author of the firm's top cybersecurity risks for 2017 report, due to be made public Tuesday. From a report on CNBC:History grades a president's first 100 days as the mark of how their four-year term will unfold, so those early days are particularly precarious, said DeMartine. The new commander in chief will face pressure from foreign entities looking to embarrass them early on, just as U.S. government agencies jockey for position within the new administration, she said. Cyberwarfare between Russia and the U.S. will escalate, and the U.S. government will respond in 2017, said DeMartine. [...] Chinese government hacking will continue in 2017, despite a joint agreement not to conduct cybertheft of intellectual property. The massive U.S. Office of Personnel Management breach, which exposed the records of millions of U.S government workers, has strained diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China, since the U.S. believes Chinese spies carried out the attack. Countries like North Korea and Iran have been building capabilities for offensive purposes and will likely try to hack public and private databases, said DeMartine.
easy fix,
tell nsa to stop hacking citizens and focus on outside threats.
Hillary's e-mails on the Wiener's laptop will be exposed
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
She's already more than 100 days ahead of Trump with her cybercrisis.
Have gnu, will travel.
Donald Trump will make The Cyber great again. So much cyber you're going to get sick of cyber. Yuuuge cyber.
I'm almost wondering if he spoke that way on purpose to dissuade hackers from bothering. Where would the challenge be?
At least one candidate has suffered cyber crises 100 days preceding, at least.
Dark Reflection
Neither Democrats nor Republicans thought that being even a little bit computer-savvy would be useful for the POTUS. This means that the decisions made by either will likely be either 100% trusted to aides, or made by "feel". Furthermore, both these candidates have expressed an interest in increased surveillance, weakened encryption, etc. Seriously, how do you think this'll play out?
What exactly is a cybercrisis? A ddos on a major dns server? Or is it a hack of the DOD? Or is it a hack of the DoJ and DHS?
At this point, nothing short of poisoning a water supply would be called a 'crisis.' It would be called, "been there, done that."
Irresponsible disclosure is responsible
History grades a president's first 100 days as the mark of how their four-year term will unfold
Either history is a lot more retarded than it used to be, or you're talking about the media and not history.
If we can get along w/ the Russians, that'd be a good thing! Then we'll be on the same side, and there will be no cyber warfare
I meant to ask this for a while now, but missed... What exactly is bleachbit? Does it do anything physically to the storage media? Like over-erase or over-program, so that a bit becomes unalterable or unreadable?
The new commander in chief will face pressure from foreign entities looking to embarrass them early on
as if systemic racism and poverty,
warrantless surveillance,
the continued existence of a foreign torture prison,
holding 25% of the worlds incarcerated,
an openly corrupt presidential candidate with a rigged delegate process,
a complete mistrust of the concept of climate change,
a guerilla war machine directly resultant from two failed wars of interventionist policy,
two back to back government shutdowns
a complete inability to elect members to its supreme court
and a secret drone-war werent enough to discredit the mere idea of American Exceptionalism(c), it appears as though the haggard burro of liberty and freedom can only be brought to its knees by a "cyber crisis," whatever the hell that could be.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Well he knows those Cyber terrorists and are great friends with them. He know all the best Cyber terrorists and know they wouldn't do anything against him.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I seem to recall the media saying in late 2007 that the next president would face a major terrorist the scope of 9/11 within the first 100 days of office, too.
On an off-topic note the guy on the stock image in the CNBC article is hacking what appears to be the Matrix with a sweatshirt hood over his head. Clearly the realism of stock images has gone too far.
Ironically, there may be something to what you say. The dodgy Clinton email server is the one thing that apparently has not hacked. State department? Yes. DNC? Check.
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You're saying that disabling all logging is your advised security solution?
Clinton's server was hacked between 0 and infinity times. There is no data.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
In other news, Gartner says the internet will spontaneously deliver not just unicorns and rainbows but free beer for all.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If it's Clinton; she's facing a cyber-crisis _already_.
If he was French he would have written a/, not w/.
He's certainly pretentious enough, I'll give you that.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I love these hysterics that are aimed at trying to get the Federal government to give some overhyped company a pile of cash. Right now if I check my server logs I will see at least 1000 "hack" attempts by stupid scripts trying to exploit old holes. Things like old IIS holes, being run against Linux servers. Then I will read where some "security" company will write a report saying that after they installed their crap software on some Fortune 500 company that they managed to "block" over 100 hack attempts.
The average dog walking wordpress site probably blocks that many every afternoon.
Will there be a cyber crisis someday. Yes. They are just playing the odds that it will happen in the first 100 so they can say, "Look how smart we are." plus they will no doubt point to one of the regular hacks that come out about every 100 days such as the Yahoo hack and say, "That is exactly what we warned you about, now give us bags of unaccountable cash."
Please, please, please let President Clinton go to jail!!!
See what I did there, a win win for everyone.
If Clinton wins, she can make Brian Pagliano the IT Czar of the US
It was Windows Server 2003. A pretty good server before the current generation like Windows 2012. Now, if only they could get hold of some DEC era AlphaServers and put Windows Server 2003 on them, that would be ideal. That is a platform w/ probably the least amount of coverage
Trump will let Putin bang Melania while he watches. And then...Chris Christie.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The logs were not deleted.
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It never logged anything in the first place. Logging was disabled, in a 'non standard' way, they did it on purpose.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Or it was hacked and the information it contains is damaging enough that if you keep it secret you've got a President in your pocket. People who assume that Russia has dirt on Hillary and are just holding onto it until closer to the election are idiots. Why would Putin want Trump to win if they could keep Clinton from opposing them for the next 4+ years?
She has a lot of experience with that!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Citation, please. FBI preferably.
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Naw. Obama will pardon her after the election, stating that it doesn't imply guilt.
He'll say "it just needs to be over".
Actually, this could be win-win-win. Clinton wins, gets impeached and simultaneously they actually get clear evidence that Trump was conspiring with Russian hackers. All of the above go to prison.
Nah. In this scenario, Trump would go to prison, and Hillary would receive a Presidential pardon.
During the Bush years (I believe it was the second term) that the US declared their intent that a cyber attack would be viewed as an act of war and could face retaliatory attacks up to and including kinetic responses to such attacks. Now this isn't obviously going to fall under routine script kiddy activity but specifically state sponsored hacking. It's interesting that Obama hasn't responded to the DNC and other hacks as they have been confirmed to be state sponsored attacks, maybe in an effort to draw the line at stuff that actually hurts people. Or more practically that their own hacks through the NSA would draw a similar response.
I'm not sure how I feel about it but I think we need to treat state sponsored hacking as acts of war if for no other reason than it would slow down the actions of the NSA and other state sponsored entities as well because of the repercussions. Responding in kind to these type of hacks would do much to encourage state sponsored entities to stay out of the game as it could quickly get out of hand and move to kinetic attacks. Russia tampering in US elections should be viewed as a threat to our democracy and an act of war deserving of retaliation.
"The next president of the United States will face a cybercrisis within 100 days, predicts report from analysts at Forrester"
What a load of cyber bullshit. If he really wants to avoid a cybercrisis, tell the president to stop storing his secrets on Microsoft Windows.
The next president of the United States will STAGE a cybercrisis within 100 days, predicts report from analysts at Forrester. The crisis could come as a result of hostile actions from A FALSE FLAG ACTOR
Well, it's not my job to source any nonsense you believe in. I see no information about her deleting any metadata; just messages being erased with bleachbit.
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If we can get along w/ the Russians, that'd be a good thing! Then we'll be on the same side, and there will be no cyber warfare
As evidenced by how the USA is not on the same side as Germany, and so had to hack everything there...
*cough*
I've been bemused by the fact that, while systems all around her were falling, hers wasn't hacked.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
It's the only way to send an Internet
Wooaa hold your insight, we don't want the American sharpest crayons going all common sense here, whats important is to remember that you have only 2 options, and that your vote always count, and that Clinton y BAD and that Trump is, well, Trump, what a guy.
- Sincerely, your not-Russian-internet-citizen