Buh, buh, buh, but..... they were “tracking” the Boston Marathon Bombers before they killed all those people, right?
Eff the FBI
Obama’s FBI has destroyed its own reputation. They must have a complete house cleaning at the top to return professional law men to leadership roles. Start draining the swamp right there.
Ya think that the FBI was hamstrung by the Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch administration and his low achievement quota boys and girls?
My feeling is that the vast majority of the FBI folks loathe this cretin and are looking forward to a leader who lets them do their job.
Looks to me like Crowdstrike gave the conclusion it was paid to give and the FBI didn’t want to do anything which might disturb or contradict that conclusion.
This story needs to be repeated... everywhere possible.
“it sure makes it look like the Obama administration, FBI, and the intelligence community didn’t care about it enough to act until the results of the election embarrassed the White House”.
And where was the uproar two years ago when the Chinese perpetrated a major hack against the government itself? Where was the controversy? Where was the finger-pointing? Where were the retaliations? Where were the editorials?
From WMD to Remember the Maine! Take the information, deduct 50% and put the rest through a mirror.
The Dems suddenly have found ‘Russians under the bed’. A new red scare for a new age, how quaint.
This is after the Russians marched into Georgia and then Hillary gave them the reset button. That aggression did not seem to bother the Dems.
This is after Bill Clinton received $500K for a speech in Russia from a small investment bank - the trouble is that there are no I-banks, it was a front for Putin. No one is upset that Bill took $500K to grease the skids for Uranium One. These crying Dems are hypocrites, and this sudden ant-Russian toughness is too little and too late.
It was FDR who surrendered eastern Europe to those bastards.
Wonder who the new FBI and CIA directors will be?
So like any private company it may provide the conclusion the customer, in this case the DNC, wants.
So it reasonable to say that DNC would be motivation to be able to say the leak was due to an outside hack vs and inside leak?.. the answer is clearly yes
And went in the history has the US Government started an action against a foreign government on the word of a private company?..
Shouldn’t be the other way around? The DNC should ask the AG to have the FBI investigate?
Why do we even need 17 ‘intelligence’ agencies if we outsource the work to private companies that are “pretty good”?
Fire them. Put a bunch of “pretty good” private companies on the on the payroll as contractors do to the work our agencies apparently won’t do.
It would save a fortune in government pensions and benefits
This still misses the point?
Russians hacking the DNS probably did happen. But that doesn’t mean they leaked the info. That was an insider that leaked it.
Hell Russians have been hacking us for damn near ever so this isn’t news. The guy murdered from the DNC is most likely the source of the leak—he was pissed about Bernie being scammed by the DNC.
Both directors of the CIA and FBI need to go and the both restructured (CIA greatly downsized and budget reduced, everything it does is illegal and not in the bill that created it in 1948 anyway.)
Both directors of the CIA and FBI need to go and the both restructured (CIA greatly downsized and budget reduced, everything it does is illegal and not in the bill that created it in 1948 anyway.)
The FBI outsourcing of the server investigation went to a company with a CEO who has a Russian name. Demitri ????
And these are the guys that gave us the information that sent us to war in Iraq.
From:
International Data Group – CSO Info
Salted Hash- Top security news
By Steve Ragan | Senior Staff Writer
News
DNC hacker slams CrowdStrike, publishes opposition memo on Donald Trump
235 page opposition memo is among the recently released cache of files
CSO | Jun 15, 2016 2:07 PM PT
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The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee is seen in Washington, U.S. June 14, 2016. Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to all opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the committee and security researchers said on Tuesday.
A hacker claiming responsibility for the DNC hack that made headlines earlier this week has slammed the security company responsible for the incident response, and leaked several documents compromised during the incident – including a 235-page opposition memo on Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that hackers – believed to be Russian – compromised the Democratic National Committee network and walked off with opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
CrowdStrike, the security firm that was brought in to do incident response, suggested espionage as the likely motive. In fact, later that day, CrowdStrike published reports on two different “APT” groups in Russia, giving them the names Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.
Overall, the Washington Post story actually read more like a promotion for CrowdStrike’s incident response offerings than actual security news.
But the fact is, someone targeted the DNC directly and that is news worth watching. At the same time, many experts felt it was a stretch to hype the incident as some sort of massive international conspiracy.
The hacker claiming responsibility for the DNC attack (using the alias Guccifer 2.0) mocked CrowdStrike’s assessment that he was a sophisticated hacker group, noting that he was pleased the company “appreciated my skills so highly. But in fact, it was easy, very easy.”
“Guccifer may have been the first one who penetrated Hillary Clinton’s and other Democrats’ mail servers. But he certainly wasn’t the last. No wonder any other hacker could easily get access to the DNC’s servers. Shame on CrowdStrike: Do you think I’ve been in the DNC’s networks for almost a year and saved only 2 documents? Do you really believe it?”
As proof, he published the full opposition report on Donald Trump, which describes the GOP presidential candidate having “no core.”
The 235-page memo is essentially a timeline and collection of comments and speeches given by Trump, as well as an overview of his political stance and mindset.
A 2-page memo to the DNC was included in the cache of posted files, which outlines the suggested positioning and public message strategy around the national election and the match-up between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In response to DNC comments that no financial information was accessed during the attack, several donor lists were also published on Wednesday by the hacker, showing millions in financial contributions from Hollywood elites, businesses, trade groups, and unions.
The hacker ended their disclosure with a notice that a bulk of the compromised documents, including memos marked confidential and secret – allegedly taken from Hillary Clinton’s personal email server – were delivered to WikiLeaks.
“The main part of the papers, thousands of files and mails, I gave to WikiLeaks. They will publish them soon. I guess CrowdStrike customers should think twice about company’s competence,” they wrote.
Salted Hash reached out to CrowdStrike for comment, but the company wasn’t able to respond before this article was published. It will be updated with additional details as they become available.
Update:
CrowdStrike didn’t respond to questions directly, but issued the statement below.
“CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016. On June 15, 2016 a blog post to a WordPress site authored by an individual using the moniker Guccifer 2.0 claiming credit for breaching the Democratic National Committee. This blog post presents documents alleged to have originated from the DNC.
“Whether or not this posting is part of a Russian Intelligence disinformation campaign, we are exploring the documents’ authenticity and origin. Regardless, these claims do nothing to lessen our findings relating to the Russian government’s involvement, portions of which we have documented for the public and the greater security community.”
So.... Crowdstrike looks like the pivot man in this circle jerk...
this stoopid has turned every gub mint agency in to dog meat.
NO confidence in any aspect of the federal gub mint.