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Emails: Russia-Linked Hackers Tried to Access Clinton Server
AP via ABC News ^ | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | Bradley Klapper, Jack Gillum and Stephen Braun

Posted on 09/30/2015 4:30:39 PM PDT by kristinn

Newly released emails show Russia-linked hackers tried at least five times to pry into Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email account while she was secretary of state. It is unclear if she clicked on any attachment and exposed her account.

Clinton received the infected emails, disguised as speeding tickets, over four hours early the morning of Aug. 3, 2011.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; clinton; election2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; newyork; russia
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To: kristinn
We pretty much knew that from the beginning.


21 posted on 09/30/2015 5:08:35 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: COBOL2Java

keyboard spew alert


22 posted on 09/30/2015 5:21:09 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: kristinn
Clinton received the infected emails, disguised as speeding tickets, over four hours early the morning of Aug. 3, 2011.

The fact that she received those emails means little. We all receive such emails (unless we use good email security software, like the one I have at work.)

You begin to worry when hackers STOP hacking into your system. It means that they are already in.

23 posted on 09/30/2015 5:29:36 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: FredZarguna

Yeah this is kid stuff.

What was probably a big security hole is how often that server (and the software on it was updated). Especially with a server in a home, it’s likely it was not patched very often, even with regular Windows updates (since those require a restart and Windows servers don’t restart automatically).

So any hacker worth his salt could probably use any number of vulnerabilities even a few months old to compromise that kind of system.


24 posted on 09/30/2015 5:39:46 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
The server kernel is designed to require fewer reboots, actually, and the default is to auto patch and perform shutdown/restart on low-activity but that doesn't change the point, which is that there are so many reasons -- not the least of which are un-patched vulnerabilities -- that you don't do this kind of thing at your own expense if government security people are ready, willing, and able, to do it for free.

From an IT perspective, there is one -- and literally ONLY one -- reason why you would do this, and that is so that you would be able to hide your virtual paper trail. That's it. There is no other advantage to doing it. It's like sanding off your own fingerprints.

25 posted on 09/30/2015 5:50:10 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("It appears a Kenyan has infiltrated the lumber room")
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To: COBOL2Java

That’s tooooo funny! And probably true!


26 posted on 09/30/2015 5:54:55 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: FredZarguna

Right, as soon as I heard she was using not just a private email, but a private server, in her HOME, it was obvious what the reason was. There is no other logical reason for doing that except that you want total control over the records, in case of investigations or legal troubles.


27 posted on 09/30/2015 6:08:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I don’t know if that’s how they knew... but they did seem to know...


28 posted on 09/30/2015 6:24:28 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The Lives of Others" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: kristinn
do I really have to say it???

29 posted on 09/30/2015 6:35:43 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Hillary would never open an e mail for a speeding ticket, because she would never pay it.

Moreover, she has't actually driven a car sine 1992.

30 posted on 09/30/2015 6:38:09 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: kristinn

Tried my @ss.


31 posted on 09/30/2015 6:38:40 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: kristinn

So her server is/was more secure than the governments?


32 posted on 09/30/2015 6:46:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Izzy Dunne

But she knows she doesn’t drive so there could be no ticket.


33 posted on 09/30/2015 6:51:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Hackers from China and or Russia penetrated the pentagon and OPM and their is even a question as to their ability to gain access to a half witted email server found in the closet of a bathroom?

What a stupid assertion of doubt on this gubbamints part. I'm so pissed that our own leaders would insult our intelligence like this.

34 posted on 09/30/2015 7:05:44 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: kristinn

Idiot hackers. Don’t they read the news? She has not driven a car in over 20 years. If they wanted her to open an attachment, they should have offered a free subscription to a lesbian dating site.


35 posted on 09/30/2015 7:22:27 PM PDT by doug from upland ( never trust DemocRATS with national security)
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To: kristinn
It is totally irrelevant whether or not she clicked on the infected emails. The mere fact that they made it to her mailbox proves the email system was unsecured. Any halfway decent email filter would have caught it. And if 5 made it through that they know about, how many made it that they don't know about.
36 posted on 09/30/2015 8:11:52 PM PDT by Jaxter (Si vis pacem para bellum.)
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To: Greysard
"The fact that she received those emails means little."

In fact it means her server wasn't protected with a good email malware filter.

37 posted on 09/30/2015 8:16:22 PM PDT by Jaxter (Si vis pacem para bellum.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
The hacking of Hillary’s server is the CAUSE of the attack in Benghazi. The bad guys knew ALL of Ambassador Stevens’ security arrangement (or lack of), scheduling, times, dates, personnel..<<

Not quite! No hacking was necessary for the bad guys as their secret mission was to capture and hold the Ambassador hostage for exchange of Gitmo detainees...when the stand down order was ignored by security...the bad guys felt double-crossed and killed the ambassador....So....in order to fulfill the promised release of the Gitmo boys Sec of State had to find another “hostage”...Beau Bergdahl the Traitor...

38 posted on 10/01/2015 1:06:14 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: M-cubed
...when the stand down order was ignored by security...the bad guys felt double-crossed and killed the ambassador...

Not so. The Ambassador died due to smoke inhalation. his death was actually an accident...

39 posted on 10/01/2015 1:52:11 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: kristinn

“It is unclear if she clicked on any attachment and exposed her account.”

Everyone with a computer has experienced this.


40 posted on 10/01/2015 5:33:47 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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