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Chinese Hackers Targeted IoT During Trump-Putin Summit (defenseone.com)
Zorro shares a report from Defense One: Four days before U.S. and Russian leaders met in Helsinki, hackers from China launched a wave of brute-force attacks on internet-connected devices in Finland, seeking to gain control of gear that could collect audio or visual intelligence, a new report says. Traffic aimed at remote command-and-control features for Finnish internet-connected devices began to spike July 12, according to a July 19 report by Seattle-based cybersecurity company F5.
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China generally originates the largest chunk of such attacks; in May, Chinese attacks accounted for 29 percent of the total. But as attacks began to spike on July 12, China's share rose to 34 percent, the report said. Attacks jumped 2,800 percent. The China-based hackers' primary target was SSH (or Secure Shell) Port 22 -- not a physical destination but a specific set of instructions for routing a message to the right destination when the message hits the server. "SSH brute force attacks are commonly used to exploit systems and [internet of things, or IOT] devices online," the report says. "SSH is often used by IoT devices for 'secure' remote administration." The report notes that attack traffic came from the U.S., France, and Italy as well, but the U.S. and French traffic kept with its averages. "Russian attack traffic dropped considerably from third, its usual spot, to fifth," reports Defense One. "German attack traffic jumped."
China, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 2-hour Trump-Putin transcripts that are missing.
They got a recording of Putin/Trump. No one else knows what was discussed except the translators. PeePee tapes maybe????
Do we know for sure its china? Everyone oursouces shit there, they are probably the middleman though.
The mainstream media behave like petulant children that didn't get their way. Their attacks on trump and Putin just read like nonsense now. Putin is not the boogeyman, China is.
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This proves Trump wants us to get hacked.
This seems like port noodling the ISO stack. Ports don't quite fly when people are attacking en masse. A couple of days ago, there was an attack on the ISO, thinking that they would take the Link Layer out. To the best of my knowledge, the ISO Stack does not work on IoT. Once this IoT was found, I'm sure that people were hacking multiple aisles with it. Maybe their intent is to stop the front of ISO-less internet usage. Dunno though.
Accept the President committed to nothing after the meeting.
Sanctions still place. Check
Diplomats still kicked out the US. Check
Seized Russian real estate in US still seized. Check
Still providing offensive weapons systems to the Ukraine. Check
US military still resting comfortably while blocking Syrian, Russian, and Iranian forces from accessing one of Syria's largest oil producing regions. Check.
Before Trump meet with Putin he accused Germany of being Russia's bitch due to their over dependence on Russian oil and gas supplies. This statement can be fact checked and shown 100% true. And this is a statement that infuriates Russia because if Europe starts buying their oil and gas elsewhere Russia loses most of their customers. It's bad enough that the US can now control the price of oil but losing any of their current customers is a disaster. And Russia also uses their oil and gas exports as leverage to manipulate half of Europe in the winter. And since Russia's economy is almost 70% funded by oil and gas exports things will continue to decline inside Russia.
All of Trump's detractors are throwing hissy fits because Trump couldn't get Putin to publicly confess his many sins in the last election. Seriously? Meeting with your enemies doesn't mean you are betraying your country. Saying one thing face to face and another forted up in the White House secured conference rooms is common SOP. In the end it is actions and not words that have meaning.
There is one facet of this hacking story that people are overlooking. The US intelligence agencies and FBI identified and collected all their evidence while Obama was still President. He had 8 months to do something with the intelligence and chose not to use it for anything. Instead he dropped all the evidence on Trump as he was on his way out of the WH. If the intelligence was so overwhelming and accurate he had a duty to do something about it before the election. Obama's excuse was he did not want to do anything that would effect the campaigns leading up to the election. So he was good with Russia doing stuff to effect the campaigns. After all Obama trusted Russia to monitor the destruction of all chemical weapons in Syria after his "red line" bluff was called.
But the sad truth about this whole clusterfuck is if Clinton had won the election none of this intelligence or investigations would have happened. Facebook wouldn't have been called before Congress to explain why their largest ad customer was Russia and associates. Comey would have been immediately fired once Clinton took office because of his e-mail investigations which were widely accepted as being the reason Clinton lost the damn election.
You don't read a lot of /. do you?
For the record, stuff like this is why not releasing your tax returns is a big deal. We have no idea who has their hooks in Trump and how deep...
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It was Russian hackers disguised as Chinese hackers. Only Russia ever hacks anything ever.
It's not just fake news.
It's completely content-free sensationalism. Apparently that's what BeauHD likes best.
Isn't it amazing that all these Chinese and Russian hackers are so shit at hiding their true location that American security organisations can always know where these hacks originate from!?!?!?!
Fuck me we're lucky they don't know the first thing about hacking!!!
This is no surprise. Everybody knows the opposition to President Trump is bankrolled by the Chinese state.
the Chinese apparently hold no sway over his actions, and is the nation that stands to lose the most if a trade war continues to fester.
Pardon, but really? The Chinese have the most to lose? They could care less about us. They own us. On paper at least, they hold so many bonds and assets in the us now.
But that's not even important, the Chinese have built up their own healthy base of consumers, they don't need us to buy their junk anymore. We need their junk though cuz we stopped making pretty much everything the Chinese make for us.
Americans will be the ones who suffer, not only from the price increases, but now the Chinese are just going to tariff us right back. Farmers are already bitching. And it's just begun? You think Americans have any stomach for policies that mess with their day to day lives? Support for Trump seems to be waning, even his own party seems to be waking from their collective coma.. I think?
Trump's delusion that the world needs the US is just that, a delusion, and as he isolates us more and more from the rest of the world, we're gunna have no one to turn to if someone does something unspeakable to us. We've turned our back, we will be repaid in kind.
Putin: I can help Republicans eat chocolate cake, we have all these men, 'cooks', 'menu writers', 'cake seos', access to all your opponents recipes, the recipes of their families, their secret recipes, all at Republican disposal. All we ask in return is the lifting of this tiny minor health code violation removed.
Trump: That's an incredible offer. Beautiful chocolate cake. Who could resist.
The sad thing is, Republicans think they're getting help in the November elections from Russia in exchange for lifting sanctions, but they're literally getting a slice of chocolate cake.
Since when is F5 a cybersecurity company? They make load balancers... Guess when everybody is eating your lunch you have to branch out.
Your delusion is that the U.S. needs the world. Not that I hate the others but we are diverse enuff to make it on our own.
Nothing coward about it to lazy to log in maybe.....Joseph Palaca ...own it all day
Ivan: "I am ordinary Texas housewife and appallled at our petulant media complaining of our glorious American President"
Igor: "I am fake counterpoint, I almost spit out my hot dog at mall with my confirmation of the petulant media while pretending to disagree"
Mikail: "Wow, you two really summed up the mood of ordinary Americans and their hatred of the mainstream newspapers and China".
Get a room you three.... oh wait, you share a cubicle, so technically you have already.
Wall of diarrhea...try again when you turn 18
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According to Russian press, he agreed to Russian intelligence interviewing US intelligence and diplomatic staff, under oath to get to the bottom of Russian meddling in the US elections. According to Huckerbee Sanders, he didn't pinky swear so it doesn't count.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/white-house-proposal-putin-mcfaul/index.html
He literally thinks the fix to his treason is to appoint 'Ivan Muellersky', a KGB man, run an investigation using Russian intelligence, to exonerate himself and swap the Russian investigation for the US investigation.
He's appointed to the lawyer for Russias Alfabank (Brian Benczkowski) as the head of criminal prosecutions at the FBI.... that's Putin's money laundering bank.
Hear the silence from the GOP? See the fake smiles form Fox and Friends as even they struggle to swallow the treason.
It's pretty obvious that Trump shows the signs of someone who willfully obliges in advance for fear of being blackmailed. That's what upsets the people in the US intelligence community so much. You have to understand that in ordinary elections, the candidates are checked before the final stages - they get in some room with old farts who have been in many intelligence committees and are asked: So, Mister X, is there anything we should know about your past before we go on endorsing your candidacy?
As probably the first US president in history, Trump skipped that step, and it's apparent to anyone knowing something about human beings that he fucked prostitutes all over the world in the past without caring whether he might be recorded or not. Once the president is elected, POTUS has full access to all top-secret classified information and there is no vetting or background checking of the president himself. That's the problem.
I understand why someone like you who is butthurt because of Trump's unpopularity and blinded by partisan politics cannot recognize this problem, but for people who know things work in the world Trump is potentially a huge problem and liability. Another issue is that Trump frequently leaks highly classified intelligence data, inadvertently when he's boasting and just can't keep his mouth shut.
Depends on what you mean by 'need' here. I mean sure, the US is large enough and wealthy enough that you could survive on your own, but with both China and the US the thing is that exporting goods and services is deeply integral to the economy and society. The US is the second largest export economy in the world. And that's only counting stuff you directly export to other countries. When you factor in the fact that most of the top US companies do business globally via subsidiaries which - depending on how the corporations and sales are structured - may not show up at all as exports, it becomes even more clear just how connected you and everyone else is to the global economy.
So could you 'make it on your own'? Absolutely, and moreso than most other western countries, including for example my own small country (Finland) that's more heavily dependent on exports because the domestic market is small. Buuut at the same time seizing exports would cause a significant dent in your economy, lead to shrinking of the economy, loss of millions jobs which in turn would lower the incomes of Americans leading to reduced domestic demand, and in general diminished influence on the global stage. It would be survivable, but it wouldn't be pleasant 'business as usual' stuff. Same goes with China who exports even more than you do.
So that being the case I'd say the US does in fact need the rest of the world, not in terms of survival, but in terms of maintaining your current economic status and the quality of life it brings.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
Russia is friendly nation. Love our USA and us Americans. China is enemy #1 and should be opposed at all costs. Trump is amazing. Putin is cool guy who is friendly and helpful. MSM is ally of left/SJW's and enemy of all free people.
The Chinese dictator can just call up Agent Orange, tell him some lies about how awesome he is and the orange numbnut will tell him exactly what he said to Putin.
It's pretty obvious that Trump shows the signs of someone who willfully obliges in advance for fear of being blackmailed.
THIS!
I really try to understand Trump's behavior without bias. The only rational* explanation I can see for his behavior is if Putin really does have the "pee" tape. I tried to think why he would cooperate (read: treason) when he could just let him release it, and it would be more publicity for Trump. I think Trump recognizes that it is his name that is the thing he can sell. If that tape was released his name would no longer be profitable, so he cooperated, not realizing that Putin would begin extracting more and more.
Now he is in so deep the fear has to be killing any rational thoughts he's having.
This is truly frightening: that the world may face two cooperating nations run by murderous dictators who control most of the world's nuclear weapons.
* Rational, for what it's worth, has a fucking new, crazy meaning in this timeline we've been thrown into.
"Trump and Putin: An orange love story"
Too bad Brando and Orson Wells are dead. They are the only two actors fat enough to play the Orange Turd.
Let's not assume that an attack coming from China is necessarily a Chinese attack. It is merely being initiated by someone who happens to be located in China. For all we know, Putin had operatives in China carrying out this attack.
Making wild-ass assumptions is the best way to keep yourself in the dark.
Sorry, but I don't think that would suffice. So far Trump has shown no embarrassment even to things that would cause just about everyone in the country to turn red with shame.
My guess is that Putin threatened him physically. He is known to be a physical coward (see "cadet bone spurs") and that this is being hidden behind a facade that he's being blackmailed over kinky sex. This might even explain a couple of KGB assassinations in Britain, though that's a bit of a stretch.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I think you underestimate the importance of US agricultural exports to China, but just how much that would affect the leadership is another question. They could clearly direct a lot of the resentment over any tight belts against the clearly malign policies of the US government. They wouldn't even need to lie.
Also China has been building ties with various other agricultural exporting countries, so the importance of the US is probably less than it was. And despite the problems it caused, the "one child per family" policy did reduct the population of China substantially, and now economics and family planning are letting them manage the population size (with, admittedly, a lot of lag in the feedback).
It's been clear for quite awhile that the US was falling out of the dominant nation position, and perhaps we can thank Trump for getting us into a secondary position without the common accompaniment of a huge war. This would be a very good thing, as being the "top nation" is generally a bad thing for a country. Perhaps China will be up to it, or at least long enough for an AI to make the matter irrelevant in one way or another. I'd been hoping for the US to hold onto the top position, but it has clearly been in decay mode for decades, with less and less concern being given to it's national ideal and more concern to holding onto power. In olden times this is a mode that could last for centuries, but that was with weaponry that was considerably less powerful than the current weaponry. Fortunately, like the US, China is predominately introverted and moved to economic dominance. I hope that they aren't too introverted to continue development of space, but we still seem to be pushing them there, at least in the shape of SpaceX and possibly Blue Origin. (NASA appears moribund, but I can hope I'm wrong.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.