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65% of Washington DC's Outdoor Surveillance Cameras Infiltrated by Romanian Hackers (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Hill:
Two Romanian hackers stand accused of hacking more than 100 outdoor police security cameras in the D.C. area during the days leading up to President Trump's inauguration, according to a court document obtained by CNN. According to an affidavit from Secret Service agent James Graham, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca and Eveline Cismaru are accused of hacking and disabling 123 out of 187 of the city's cameras between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15... Isvanca and Cismaru are also accused in the affidavit of spreading ransomware.
In a possibly-related story, the Washington Post reports: Five Romanian hackers were arrested over the past week as part of an international investigation into computer ransomware, officials in the United States and Europe said Wednesday. In six houses across Romania, law enforcement operatives from Romania, Britain, the United States and the Netherlands seized hard drives, laptops, external storage devices and documents related to malicious software called CTB-Locker or Critroini.
In a possibly-related story, the Washington Post reports: Five Romanian hackers were arrested over the past week as part of an international investigation into computer ransomware, officials in the United States and Europe said Wednesday. In six houses across Romania, law enforcement operatives from Romania, Britain, the United States and the Netherlands seized hard drives, laptops, external storage devices and documents related to malicious software called CTB-Locker or Critroini.
Putin probably doesn't control them.
Where I live, all the supermarket entries are swamped by aggressive Roma beggars who are not satisfied with my picture.
It sounds like a particular model camera the city was using had an exploit. But...
Why did they bother? I can't think of what they had to gain unless they were setting up a blanket for some other activity that would be caught by those cameras. But that didn't happen but they are going to pay a pretty heavy price for it.
So was it just for the lulz? (I know that is a dated term but I can't think of a better word right now.)
I hope it will be harder for the DC government/police to get convictions against anti-Trump demonstrators. Anyone who shuts down surveillance systems does humanity a service.
IoT devices are unsecure - details at 11.
Ah HA!
So that's why the lamestream fake news media reported such small numbers of people at the Trump Inauguration!
There were really millions more but the Romanians erased them from the cameras.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Well, in the UK the Romanians have been demonised and used as a main reason to convince people to vote for Brexit.
Now it seems that in the USA the scapegoating is in full swing and, surprise, surprise, the Romanians are targeted as well.
Probably Putin frowned at the whole bruhaha about the Russian interference in the elections, so the brave Secret Service agents need a more convenient scapegoat, prefferably one wihout the Russian military behind it.
And 100% by the In Ess Eh.
When I first read the headline, I thought it said Romulan. Like Star Trek aliens were taking over.
In the UK the Romanians were the main target when the politicians stoked the racist fires to get votes for Brexit.
Now in the USA they are targeted as well, probably because this will not upset Putin ?
... is "free." because you don't have to pay to use the shit attached to it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Police camera video should be viewable by the public or the cameras should be removed. The public should have exactly the same access as the police to this video.
who's gonna get convicted for not:
1. validating that they're securable, and
2. then securing them?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
I'm a romanian and when i read this it make me laugh.at least the camera weren't stolen by some bros from Prince County
A few Romanians arrested, but there will be plenty more to replace them as long as the manufacturers and vendors care little about security. The only way of doing that is to make the local hight street store liable - they will then stop selling you the cheapest that they can buy; so then all that you will have to worry about are state sponsored crackers who deliberately place back doors in these things.
There's a more detailed article in the submission queue. Maybe next time the mod can pick the better story, not an article with 3 paragraphs https://slashdot.org/submission/7734351/hackers-used-washingtons-cctv-system-to-distribute-ransomware
:)
Bull shit.
http://911speakout.org/wp-content/uploads/BlinkedPentagonPlane.html
Grow up little boy and move out of Mommies basement.
Not there OP, but that shared link is ridiculous.
A 757 flies low over one of the most populated parts of the country and that's all you've got?
Please. No plane hit the Pentagon
Apparently I need to grow up too. Still haven't seen a single shred of evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon. Not to mention that the details come from people who lie for a living.
There were security cameras pointed at this area and even now only 3 very bad pictures have ever been released and this makes perfect sense to you?
So do you believe the official story that commercial airliner vaporized and what fucking bad luck it hit in the spot where the auditing of the Pentagon was being done.or is it just a conspiracy that Donald Rumsfeld said a couple trillion dollars went missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljgYENg--Y
I did not post the previous comment you replied to but why does everyone you disagree live in a fucking basement fuck you stick your head back in the sand and always believe your government cause they never lie you stupid american.
The level of corruption in america exist cause people like you even facts will not get you to pull your fucking head out of the sand.
The plane that hit the Pentagon was witnessed by the commuters on the highway that passes by the Pentagon. There were 10 signed and submitted affidavits from 10 of these commuters attesting to what they witnessed. The plane was also identified by the air traffic control radar until it crashed into towards the Pentagon. The NTBS processed the crash site and recovered, among other things, the planes black box. But it's cool if you want to look like a total ass wipe living in a fantasy world.
No airplane wreckage. No video. No photos of a 757 coming down. Give me a break. You sir, are the mom's basement dweller. Intelligent people know bs when it's served to them.
Signed and submitted? Oh well that's proof right there. Case closed!
What's the weather like in Langley today AC? Lol
So no photos of a 757 crashing into Washington DC?
That seems crazy.
That's OK. I haven't seen a single shred of evidence that planes hit the WTC, all of the videos of the said event were faked by ILM.
The WT' had tens of thousands of photographs, thousands of deaths, millions of eyewitnesses, thousands of videos.
The two are not even remotely comparable.
There is simply no evidence to support the claim that any passenger aircraft ever crashed into the Pentagon. The available evidence suggests that it never happened. The onus it proof lies on those making extraordinary, unsupported claims.
I saw it on tv that same day. They had news updates on it for the next dozen hours about how the roof was still on fire because of layered new construction overtop old construction, and continued drama over whether the defense officials would need to evacuate. You want to tell me that the tv footage was faked? Burden of proof is on you. Go conspiracy youself elsewhere.
Mark of the Coder fades from you. You perform Opening on World of Warcraft. Warcraft crits GPA for 4. GPA dies.
The entire west is ruled by one world government and the borders only exist to soothe people and stop them from a reactionary backlash against globalism.
My karma was manually wiped by site staff https://slashdot.org/~slshdtisctrldbysjws 18 mod up, 10 mod down = bad karma
Does it still count as hacking if the camera comes preloaded with a telnet backdoor with login admin:123456 and publishes its IP address to several chinese dyndns servers as soon as you plug it into the internet?
OK prick hw about these:
http://rense.com/general32/phot.htm
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a5659/debunking-911-myths-pentagon/
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/10/07/bringing-closure-to-the-911-pentagon-debate/
http://www.911myths.com/html/757_wreckage.html
Get out of the basement, go to school, learn how to think and stop listening too the little voices in your head. Please tget back on your meds.
Eye witness accounts:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_pentagon_eyewitnesses.html
Nope. That's not what airplane wreckage looks like. Not even close. Go to Google images and look at any wreckage from any crash. There are seats, luggage, etc.
And that hole in the building how big is that? Just no.
Oh hoh! There's that conspiracy word.
As if that has some bearing on the discussion. The US government "conspires" all the time. Are you unaware of that?
Still think those WMD's are going to turn up in Iraq? (hint: No, that was a conspiracy to manufacture a cassus belli)
Got any other tricks to win an argument without arguing?
Yeah more importantly, how is it possible that the most surveiled building in the world didn't have video of a gigantic passenger plane making a bee line for it? Something is wrong here.
Am I the only one who thinks this is super awesome? The surveillance state is incompatible with a free society and deeply unamerican. All failures for the Stasi are wins for the American people.
The "S: if for security. ;)
Signed and submitted? Oh well that's proof right there. Case closed!
What's the weather like in Langley today AC? Lol
Of course. Conspiracy theorists never want to do the actual work themselves, and they will never, ever let evidence to the contrary dissuade them of their pet theories that they want to be true so very badly.
"A 757 wasn't spotted by any civilians?"
"Actually plenty of people saw it, and you can look up their affidavits."
"Signed and submitted? Lol."
Nothing would satisfy you short of rooting around in the wreckage directly after the crash, and I'm sure you'd find some bullshit excuse for how plane parts were planted or some other nonsense.
Oh hoh! There's that conspiracy word.
Yes, that's right. The conspiracy word. We have plenty of evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon, and you have absolutely no evidence that it did not.
The plane was hijacked. We know this as a statement of fact.
The plane was tracked heading in that direction. We also know that as a statement of fact.
For the "missile/bomb" theory, the plane would have to have disappeared... completely, without a trace. The commuters who saw the plane would have had to all have been Pentagon/Military/whatever plants, or bought testimony. Some group would have had to plant the explosives or fire the missile. All of that would have had to have come from somewhere, and you'd also have to then plant all the evidence that was inside the Pentagon ruins. And all this for what purpose?
We have a photo of the plane right outside the Pentagon. Why no footage? Because when a plane is traveling 500 mph, a 24 fps camera is only going to get a frame or two before impact. This was 2001, not 2017. People didn't have dashcams, it was a good 7 years before the release of the smartphone gave most people quick available cameras on their body at any time.
You want to believe otherwise, so you concoct a grand plan that contradicts available evidence and was somehow kept secret despite the ridiculous amount of work that hard to be involved to pull off something so huge.