State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns (politico.com)

State-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal email passwords of a number of prominent journalists, Google has warned. The hackers are suspected to be Russians, reports POLITICO. Some of the journalists who have received such warnings from Google as recent as two-to-three weeks ago include Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, Julia Ioffe, who recently started at The Atlantic, Ezra Klein of Vox, and CNN's Brian Stelter. From the report: "The fact that all this started right after the election suggests to me that journalists are the next wave to be targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the way that Democrats were during it," said one journalist who got the warning. "I worry that the outcome is going to be the same: Someone, somewhere, is going to get hacked, and then the contents of their Gmail will be weaponized against them -- and by extension all media."

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Russian hackers = the best

[DNS-and-BIND]

Just amazing the reach of Russian hackers. First, they managed to get the DNC & Hillary Clinton to write thousands of self-incriminating (and on Hillary's side, remarkably foul-mouthed - or is it foul-keyboarded?) emails. Then they suborned the DNC to steal the nomination from Sanders and give it to Clinton, to give Trump an easier opponent. Next they induced a DNC staffer named Seth Rich to steal the compromising emails and give them to Wikileaks, which dutifully publishes them, showing the DNC to be corrupt and Hillary to be venal. Then they managed to get Rich to set himself up for a mugging in which he is shot twice in the head but nothing is stolen. Then they manipulated the Director of the FBI to announce just before the election that many, many thousands of emails potentially involving Hillary have been found and need to be examined. And finally, they finessed the US intelligence community into believing he hacked those DNC computers to influence the election, thereby concealing - and taking off the discussion table - any examination of the DNC's & Hillary's wrongdoing.

I heard that they found the cell-phone-smashing sledge hammer in Putin's basement!

Re: Russian hackers = the best

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, yes, you deeply believe in corruption and evil on the Democratic side, but are utterly silent when it comes to hawking sweatshop made Trump branded products from the White House. Something that unlike your phantoms, actually happened.

Seriously, I bet you can't even work up the nerve to admit that Putin is a grade-A despot, as inclined to deception, malice, and corruption as anybody you can name, and Trump is at best, his stooge, at worst, his patsy.

But even if we ignore that, you're going to have to deal with the incompetence of Devos, the bigotry of Sessions, the corruption of Price, the cowardice of McConnell and the shallowness of Ryan.

Re:Hard Time Believing

[Anonymous Coward]

It's pretty obvious you don't read much about it so perhaps doubting it "generally" is just a natural extension of you having no clue?

The people who classify and categorize and analyze attacks don't tend to make unfounded conclusions based on their 'gut' as you do. They know what they're talking about, it's not political for them. They look at everything, every detail available, and they came to a conclusion based on it.

Maybe read more and see how that goes for you instead of just being full of gut-thoughts? Or do you require political conclusions first, and the connective tissue is irrelevant?