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Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com)
State-sponsored hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks, erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the country's airports and hitting five additional targets, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the breach. From a report on Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia said after inquiries from Bloomberg News that "several" government agencies were targeted in attacks that came from outside the kingdom, according to state media. Although a probe by Saudi authorities is still in its early stages, the people said digital evidence suggests the attacks emanated from Iran. That could present President-elect Donald Trump with a major national security challenge as he steps into the Oval Office. The use of offensive cyber weapons by a nation is relatively rare and the scale of the latest attacks could trigger a tit-for-tat cyber war in a region where capabilities have mushroomed ever since an attack on Saudi Aramco in 2012.
Indeed. And submitter apparently doesn't think Obama gives a rat's ass about his brothers in Saudi Arabia.
News articles get more clicks when they mention Trump. (I read the article, and I honestly think that could be reason).
I don't know if this is Slashdot trolling but these Trump articles need to stop, its getting ridiculous. A better headline would be "Saudi and Iran in cyber shitfight". Trying to shoehorn this into a Donald angle is an overreach.
I'd mod you up, but you're already +5
Because the most powerful leader in the world should have a world view utterly devoid of nuance.
Ignorance is strength, I suppose.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You have absolutely NOTHING to base your claim on that Trump has any support for Saudi Arabia. In fact, in the past, Saudi Arabia was one of the countries he would criticize, along w/ Japan. When Saudi Arabia executed Nimr al-Nimr, he was critical of them in a debate. In fact, in the GOP debates, while others like Rubio and Fiorina would describe Saudi Arabia as an ally, Trump would not, taking Russia's side in this.
Trump's foreign policy stances are well known, except to stupid Democrats who conflate his positions w/ age old Bushisms. He was critical of the ouster of both Mubarak and Gadaffi, stating that removing them just resulted in replacements that turned out to be worse. And he was right - in the case of Egypt, there was a brief Muslim Brotherhood regime before the army took over and redid the election, and got Gen Sisi to power. And the NATO bombardment of Libya resulting in the lynching of Gadaffi resulted in Cyrenaica - their oil rich province - becoming ISIS territory.