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Microsoft Launches A Counterattack Against Russia's 'Fancy Bear' Hackers (thedailybeast.com)
Kevin Poulsen writes on the Daily Beast:
It turns out Microsoft has something even more formidable than Moscow's malware: Lawyers. Last year attorneys for the software maker quietly sued the hacker group known as Fancy Bear in a federal court outside Washington DC, accusing it of computer intrusion, cybersquatting, and infringing on Microsoft's trademarks... Since August, Microsoft has used the lawsuit to wrest control of 70 different command-and-control points from Fancy Bear... Rather than getting physical custody of the servers, which Fancy Bear rents from data centers around the world, Microsoft has been taking over the Internet domain names that route to them. These are addresses like "livemicrosoft[.]net" or "rsshotmail[.]com" that Fancy Bear registers under aliases for about $10 each. Once under Microsoft's control, the domains get redirected from Russia's servers to the company's, cutting off the hackers from their victims, and giving Microsoft a omniscient view of that servers' network of automated spies.
"In other words," Microsoft outside counsel Sten Jenson explained in a court filing last year, "any time an infected computer attempts to contact a command-and-control server through one of the domains, it will instead be connected to a Microsoft-controlled, secure server."
With a court order they can look up who is behind the compromised IP.
Then they can call them up from "Microsoft Techsupport" to inform them that they've been infected with a virus!
Now that's service!
If it weren't for Russia we'd be Germans.
And it would had been great!
This is just Microsoft taking over random phishing domains, yes?
I'm still amazed that the Russian state's superhackers have no state-level tools like the NSA's TAO program revealed to us all and are forced to phish everyone in the hopes of getting a day or two worth of access to an interesting email account and rob rubes of rubles. It's almost like the APT is just some low-level nobodies instead of a state-run organ of a major geopolitical power.
We would all be trying to browse the internet with Netscape Navigator... on a Macintosh... using 5 1/4" floppy disks... and Linux and Unix would be nonexistent... and Hillary Clinton would be the president of the USA... in 2017.
"In other words," Microsoft outside counsel Sten Jenson explained in a court filing last year, "any time an infected computer attempts to contact a command-and-control server through one of the domains, it will instead be connected to a Microsoft-controlled, secure server."
So, sorta like M$ $kype?
Nope, you are looking at WWII without Russia, but failed to account for the 10,000 years before that. If there were no Russia, the Mongols would have conquered the land in that area long ago, then the question of who would have been holding it for WWI. If Russia didn't participate in WWI, the results may have been different. And since WWII was a result of WWI, that would cause a great difference in WWII, if it ever happened. So no, it's unlikely we'd be speaking German, though it has been proposed as the official language of the USA, back when there were almost as many German speakers as English speakers, Before WWI, we've fought the English, but not the Germans. Another reason there was a big push to join WWI with the Germans against the English. Had we not soured on Germany from WWII, we'd still be talking about whether we entered WWI on the wrong side. But with Germany earning villain status in WWII, we retcon'ed justification for fighting against them in WWI.
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This is just Microsoft trying to make sure they're the only people putting malware on your computer. Old monopolies die hard. ;)
Shut up and eat your vegetables!!!
When they use a microsoft or google trademark on one of their operations and the operation leaks.
Pointing out typos in the age of autocorrect. His phone could have just as easily removed the apostrophe as he could have forgotten to add it. Also, his point was that English was born of German; not that they're currently identical.
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Nope, you are looking at WWII without Russia, but failed to account for the 10,000 years before that. If there were no Russia, the Mongols would have conquered the land in that area long ago, then the question of who would have been holding it for WWI. If Russia didn't participate in WWI, the results may have been different. And since WWII was a result of WWI, that would cause a great difference in WWII, if it ever happened. So no, it's unlikely we'd be speaking German, though it has been proposed as the official language of the USA, back when there were almost as many German speakers as English speakers, Before WWI, we've fought the English, but not the Germans. Another reason there was a big push to join WWI with the Germans against the English. Had we not soured on Germany from WWII, we'd still be talking about whether we entered WWI on the wrong side. But with Germany earning villain status in WWII, we retcon'ed justification for fighting against them in WWI.
Based on what I read, the theory that the US was close to joining the German side in WW1 seems to be a bit of revisionist history.
US banks had lent money to the allies, a large number of American citizens had joined the Allies, and the Germans were sinking unarmed American ships in WW1 prior to the US entering the conflict. It seems highly unlikely that the US would have ever joined the German side. There was propaganda from both sides lobbying the US form their initial neutral stance. However, there were a large number of factors against joining Germany.
It's possible that I missed something. If so, provide some sources please.
"Rather than getting physical custody of the servers, which Fancy Bear rents from data centers around the world," go fuck yourself ivan.
fuck you ivan
Some of enjoined domains are listed in Appendix A of this order.
When the articles refer to a domain name with brackets, mentally insert a pattern. So, instead of livemicrosoft.com, how about livemicrosoftstatistics912.com? Something that doesn't link to the correct server, but looks "legit".
If it weren't for Russia we'd be Germans. And it would had been great!
Where are you from - America or Europe? If the latter, you are right. If the former, then no: it would have been impossible for the Wehrmacht to invade the mainland US, particularly w/ them being under constant pressure to keep Europe reined in.
In WWI, the US really had no business getting involved or picking sides, and its involvement was a part of Woodrow Wilson's interventionist policies, which was the ancestor of yesterday's neocon policies of Clinton/Bush/Obama. WWI was really the activation of alliances in Europe drawn up along a combination of ethnic and political lines - Serbia + Russia + France + Belgium + UK + myriad other countries along its fringes vs Austria-Hungary + Germany + Bulgaria + Turkey. The US had the lend-lease policy w/ UK and Wilson was busy selling armaments to one of the parties in the war - the Allies, so if you were Germany, that was obviously an act of war. The trigger that had the US join in was the German sinking of US ships carrying weapons to the allies, but it takes a completely subjective view of that to state that the US was provoked into joining the war. The US joined a war it had no business being involved in: there were no national interests involved, nor for that matter, even humanitarian interests: Kaiser Wilhelm II was not remotely similar to Hitler!
What you are describing is more WWII - the US was in no mood to join the war, and didn't. There was an anti-war movement within the US that saw to it. However, once Pearl Harbor happened, and both Germany & Japan declared war on the US, it wasn't up to FDR at all.
This may seem a quibble over semantics, but can we avoid using the term 'Russia', which in this thread, conflates Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and today's Russian Federation? That would be like conflating Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler and Angela Merkel
The Soviet Union that is often credited w/ being key to winning WWII was the same country that started off in the war on the same side as Hitler - ref: the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. It doesn't deserve credit for being on the right side just b'cos Hitler turned on them!
That people click and run shit unsafe shit from the Internet? Jesus Christ. You fuckers cry about not having the freedom to do what you want with your own hardware and then cry harder when you have the freedom to hang yourself.
I think it would be easier to go direct to an ISP with an IP known for C&C and have it shut down faster than taking domains through the courts. The hacker assholes need DNS so they can move the servers faster than being identified and shut down. Bypassing DNS or whatever retarded thing you meant won't help.
Did you do that before LAST AUGUST or are you stupid? In case you didn't know, this is July. August referred to in TFS was last year.
The expression used is, 'practically German.'
English is practically German like my chickens are practically brontosaurus.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Weren't the Mongols stopped in Hungary?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
The paper calls the hacker group "Putin's hackers", and many comments here follow the trend. But Microsoft is a bit more prudent, as noted in TFA:
Microsoft doesn’t name Russia in its suit, instead describing Fancy Bear as a “sophisticated and well-resourced organization” that remains unidentified.
Indeed the hackers are probably Russians, and they seem to follow our perceived Russia government's interests, but reducing everything to the enemy's leader, which has to be evil, is basic war propaganda. That does not help thinking, and it drives us away from interesting questions: what are Russia's interests? Does Fancy Bear help serving them?
I'm Swede :)
Sweden was never invaded by Germany but Germany was already the most influencing country and may still be the market we export to the most. Even if Germany would only had ruled "Spain to Austria" so to speak or whatever (not UK and Russia) then it would of course have had an incredible influence upon us here in Sweden and that would had been the norm.
If they had also beat UK and possibly even Russia.. Well.. go figure.. Then it would had been the major ideology of the world. I guess.
To live in a dictatorship haven't seemed as attractive before. Of course not the bad behavior against people either.
However considering how socialism and large government / people ruled from above is looking like it's coming back with nowhere to run or how globalists don't care about the peoples and their cultures but rather what to destroy that for conformity.. well. Then it looks pretty attractive. At-least with a strong Germany the outcome would had been something I've pretty familiar with and which would had been European.
Now we're just destroyed as immigration is used as a weapon against us either for reformed markets or for a larger need for a strong and powerful government (more likely the later? Even though our leaders may have intended the former when they started doing it), regardless of which one less power to the normal individual and more power to either the government or the few who own the most. Neither option make me a winner. I wish freedom and ownership of your own life and property ended up being the winner so one at-least had a chance (if they want to equalize the economical possibilities then I prefer redistribution paid out to each citizen to do whatever they want to do with it because that bring less power to the governments / leaders and it still allow us to say pick the schools / school systems we want, live where and how we want, and such. It grant us choice over our own lives whereas more money to the government who then make choices for us doesn't.)
The mongol invasion of Europe happened in 13th century, so well before Russia even formed (there were only lots of small Russian states).
The argument here is that if not for Russia forming we would have more invasions from the asian nomad hordes. Before unification small states in that area had serious problems with stopping the horde especially with Muscovite-Novgorod rivalry. While somewhat true, the hordes were never a long term problem as they usually fell apart after some brilliant leader died and pretenders started fighting among themselves.It would likely only lead to eastern Europe becoming poorer economically and some other country taking this "defender" role (Pol-Lit Commonwealth? one of the german principalities?)
If the Germans wouldnt attack, the Russians would a bit later. They joined attack on Poland to get back some territory they considered theirs (remember that they only lost it 20 years earlier). Notice that they didnt join the rest of the war as there was nothing interesting for them there - they just reverted to neutral status. They would just wait for German exhaustion and attack then to gain even more territory. Obviously this plan didnt work.
They weren't stopped there by force. They stopped on their own and returned to their capitol due to internal reasons. I can't remember what that was but is detailed in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Wrath of the Khans.
Anyone who talks about "Fancy Bear" or "Cozy Bear" without irony is as much of an idiot at this point as those who still question Obama's birth certificate. It's all based on a CrowdStrike study paid for by the DNC (who wouldn't let the FBI touch it, another giant tell people choose to ignore). But it's a company with no credibility and has ties to the anti-Russian Atlantic Council.
This is pure swiftboating, only this time flowing from Democrats. The election interference last year wasn't from Russia in the general, but by the DNC in their own primary. Hacking is what Obama did to Angela Merkle's cell phone.
His words were 'check'. Your words were 'officially assign preemptive blame'. Why not just argue against someone's real position? Grow a fucking pair and stop playing with straw men.
To address the original claim: Putin kills Russians. Mainly journalists. I've yet to see evidence that he kills foreign politicians. It's almost certainly not worth the risk for him. I'd feel fucking foolish if i suggested it, to be honest.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
You'd think you could come up with better propaganda. Here's a tip: don't be so fucking painfully obvious that even slashdotters can spot you.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Telling everybody about it is a great way to start things off isn't it.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
You are confusing "entered the war" with "declared war". The US entered the war on the side of the Allies, then, after becoming entangled, declared war. The Germans sank US ships in the Atlantic because the US was actively running the English blockade. That act of war was met with an act of war.
Over history, you are picking one point. Russia wouldn't have saved us from Germany if Russia didn't exist. If Russia wasn't there in the 1800s, then the Ottoman Empire may have ruled it at the start of WWI, making the conflict shorter and of no consequence, so that Germany wasn't punished with reparations that lead to WWII. Again, the lack of Russia doesn't seem to doom the USA.
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Possibly! But one of the major surprises for Stalin was that despite several warnings of an impeding German invasion, he refused to prepare. Had he been the head of a democratic country & done that, he'd have been impeached. The only thing that saved the Soviet Union was their strategic depth - their troops could retreat thousands of miles into Siberia, which in fact formed their industrial heartland, since Ukraine & Byelorussia were battlefields & wastelands. And of course, the winter was what saved the Soviets against Hitler, just like they saved the Russians against Napoleon
im not sure if it would have been great but it sure as hell would have been less complicated if you're white, six feet tall and blonde lol, (lets not forget who invented the eugenics program in the first place btw, give credit where its due but yea) if it werent for americans the nazi party would have had a lack of funds legal battle against underground hackers hm ? daddy warbucks versus the molotov ... i somehow cant shake the feeling this will end bad ... probably a pr nightmare but hey, if you just put a billion on top of that its easily covered. Its what you get for sucking NSA dick mate ... no im not pro-russian, not anti-american, not global or -ist but outhere in the perimeter
there are no starts and geopolitics counts for very little to nothing ... it really doesnt
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
I have no idea what the second part of your post was about.
Actually, Russia did prepare well in case of a German invasion, and built not one but two lines of fortifications. Then, Stalin decided to blow up these fortifications when preparing an attack.
Barbarossa was not a planned backstab but a desperate pre-emptive strike. In most places Germans entered over barbed wire cleared by Russians just a week if not the day before. Barbarossa succeeded (temporarily) only because of extreme incompetence of Russian leadership -- routinely purging anyone with a shred of skill isn't conductive to growing an efficient cadre. There were no contingency plans at all, upon hearing the news Stalin did refuse to hear anyone for a week, the top brass did not dare to do anything without Stalin's approval, making the army collapse. Ridiculous Russian tactics, making them lose 10:1 in terms of manpower even when orders did come in, weren't helpful either.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.