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US Government Finds New Malware From North Korea (engadget.com)
Days after the historic North Korea-United States summit, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on Thursday warning of a new variant of North Korean malware to look out for. Called Typeframe, the malware is able to download and install additional malware, proxies and trojans; modify firewalls; and connect to servers for additional instructions. Engadget reports: Since last May, the DHS has issued a slew of alerts and reports about North Korea's malicious cyber activity. The department also pointed out that North Korea has been hacking countries around the world since 2009. And of course, don't forget that the U.S. also labeled that country as the source of Wannacry cyberattack, which notably held data from the UK's National Health Service hostage, and wreaked havoc across Russia and Ukraine. CNN was first to report the news.
I want to point out that WannaCry was built on an exploit from the NSA (The ShadowBrokers leak). If the NSA had spent half as much time defending the internet as they do attacking it, then WannaCry never would have happened. Furthermore if admins had been up on their patches, they wouldn't have been hit by the attack. Finally, if admins had been doing proper backups, they wouldn't have needed to pay to get it unlocked.
So there are multiple layers of fuckup in WannaCry.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I don't know what CNN you watch, but the one that I watch has only talked about Anthony Bourdain lately. I think Trump probably had him killed because he knew that would get the spotlight away from him for a while.
Imagine THAT! CNN trying to provoke a war to defeat peace so they can get a dig in at the president.
Just so we're crystal clear, CNN reported on a DHS alert. So yeah. There's that.
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
This is not the 'Obama apology tour' in which there are multiple legitimate interpretations. This is pure accommodation of terrorist who brutally murders his people by a sitting US President. There is no way to put lipstick on this pig.
Yes, we need to do everything we can to protect the world. Yes, sometimes that is not ideal, as in the treaty we had with Iran which was far from as effective as we wanted it to be, but still effective as a starting point. Sometimes we do need to kick ass, as every sitting president has done.
Now, we could say that we should give Trump credit for being innovative, i.e. bringing a real estate video to a brutal and murderous dictator. If it would have worked, if we would have gotten a real commitment to eliminate the nuclear capability of NK, or at least if Trump would have gotten his hotels on the peninsula, then we would have all been cheering. But being a leader means one has to take responsibility for one's failures as well as aculades for the successes.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Anonymous Coward "One of the first steps to achieving tyranny is to attack and discredit the free press"
'the CIA task force “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,”'
OK, first of all, it's not "North Korea" and "Russia" that are the threat, it's the regimes governing North Korea and Russia. I don't know any North Koreans, but all the Russian people I know are fine people. I have no problem with them.
1) Why the Kim regime is a threat: Kims regularly have their political enemies murdered (including family members) including one who was strapped to an anti-aircraft gun and vaporized.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
2) Why the Putin regime is a threat: He regularly has his political enemies murdered, sometimes via terrorist attacks on Western countries. He also used state intelligence machinery to attack elections in the United States, the UK, and the Ukraine, and in the case of the US colluded with criminals to throw the 2016 presidential election to a mobster.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
You are welcome on my lawn.
No real agreement was made, other than the US conceding the right to conduct military exercises as it wishes. On the other hand, evidently, NK is still free to do whatever it wishes, including cyber attacks on the US, which is increasingly considered an act of war.
Neither side made a firm commitment, and termination of operations with SK is contingent upon NK stopping nuclear testing. If they continue testing, Trump will ratchet up his blathering from 10 to 11 and explain that due to NK failing to keep its commitment to him (personally) that we have never been closer to recommencement of hostilities.
Not a Trump fan, but this is the one thing Trump might actually be able to do. Or, you know, he might just plunge us into WWIII, but I don't think so. I think not-so-lil'-Kim is smarter than that. That's one thing Trump has right. He might be an asshole, but he's a successful asshole.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
He also used state intelligence machinery to attack elections in the United States
Proof delivered, via 4 guilty verdicts and one plea.
So just like obama?
Proof? None
I don't think I've ever seen a president so disrespected.
Well, I have definitely never seen the office of the President of the United States so disrespected. So I think jabbing at Trump is completely justified.
He is making mockery of all of us, and our nation. He's making us all look like him. He's disrespectful to other world leaders (except dictators! weird?) He is disgracing the office of the President and our entire nation.
So in turn, everyone who can, makes a mockery of Trump, in the media, in print, on the web, YouTube, SNL, late night comedy, stand up, everywhere Trump is the punchline of every joke. Because he is a joke. Alas, he is not funny by any stretch.
CNN trying to provoke a war to defeat peace so they can get a dig in at the president.
Occam's razor: No need to provoke a war to get a dig at the president, he offers himself up to that voluntarily daily.