Slashdot Mirror
'Very High Level of Confidence' Russia Used Kaspersky Software For Devastating NSA Leaks (yahoo.com)
bricko shares a report from Yahoo Finance: Three months after U.S. officials asserted that Russian intelligence used popular antivirus company Kaspersky to steal U.S. classified information, there are indications that the alleged espionage is related to a public campaign of highly damaging NSA leaks by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers. In August 2016, the Shadow Brokers began leaking classified NSA exploit code that amounted to hacking manuals. In October 2017, U.S. officials told major U.S. newspapers that Russian intelligence leveraged software sold by Kaspersky to exfiltrate classified documents from certain computers. (Kaspersky software, like all antivirus software, requires access to everything stored on a computer so that it can scan for malicious software.) And last week the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. investigators "now believe that those manuals [leaked by Shadow Brokers] may have been obtained using Kaspersky to scan computers on which they were stored." Members of the computer security industry agree with that suspicion. "I think there's a very high level of confidence that the Shadow Brokers dump was directly related to Kaspersky ... and it's very much attributable," David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, told Yahoo Finance. "Unfortunately, we can only hear that from the intelligence side about how they got that information to see if it's legitimate."
Had my new Win10 machine, decided to put the latest version on. Kas put a man in the middle SSL scanner so it could scan SSL streams. After I told it not too and even disabled it, it still tried to scan all my SSL traffic and would block my browser. It just would not leave my SSL traffic alone even after specifically disabling web protection. This was the scanner only, i did not install the full protection suite.
So I uninstalled it. Rebooted, and it still left the SSL middleware installed. WTF is this amateur behavior at Kaspersky.
No idea wtf is going over there at Kaspersky, but its gone to hell. I don't care if one of the fastest, very low cpu usage, and great anti-virus detection. These stupid games like MITM SSL without my permission is downright unforgivable.
.
Peek-a-boo - I see you, paid "intelligence community trolls with mod points". A big FU to lying to keep your rice bowl full.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
Yet, in spite of the GOP abandoning him, he won the election. I think this can only be explained by some combination of Clinton being so obnoxious a choice that people couldn't bring themselves to case a ballot for her and Trump being quite crafty in his strategy.
Remember, both candidates knew that the popular vote didn't matter and both campaigned to win the EC.
For example, Trump didn't spend much time in California because there was no possibility he would win it and, if he did win it, it meant he didn't need it as the election would have been a landslide in his favor even without California's EC votes. Similarly, California voters who may have supported Trump had no reason to even bother to vote. In a liberal state like California, putting a Trump sticker on your car in an urban area was like putting a Goldwater sticker on your car in 1964 (I know, I lived there in Berkeley in 1964 and our family cars had Goldwater stickers on them -- those "tolerant liberals" were only tolerant of their own views - it really sucked being a small child and having your car windows spat on). Thus, most potential Trump voters in California didn't look around and see stickers and yard signs that would motivate them to vote.
Clinton, on the other hand did spend a bit of time in California -- mostly to raise money -- and putting a Clinton yard sign up or a Clinton sticker on your car was perfectly acceptable and wouldn't get you abused, so supporters did so. This inevitably garnered more support as sheeple looked around and saw only Clinton campaign signs and stickers and, being herd animals and tribal in nature, jumped on the bandwagon.
Do you want a President who ran their campaign so terribly that she paid for 3M votes that were obviously useless to her instead of buying a few hundred thousand which would have mattered? Her inability to administer her own campaign effectively and efficiently leaves little doubt that she would have been similarly incompetent as administrator of the country.
On the other hand, Trump is a horrible joke -- but fortunately he's doing a good job at his second most important responsibility - appointing Federal Judges that respect the rule of law and think politicians should make policy, not judges. This judicial legacy will long outlast his term as Federal Judges serve for life, His first most important responsibility is defense -- it's not clear how he will do on that as he's not been tested yet and I hope he's not.