Posted on 03/14/2014 9:11:44 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Hackers knocked out the Russian presidency's website several times on Friday and brought down the central bank website, the Kremlin press service said.
"A powerful cyber attack is under way on the (Kremlin) site," a Kremlin spokeswoman said, adding that the attack was continuing and security experts were trying to prevent further disruptions.
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Could just as easily be dissident hackers within Russia itself.
Given some of Putin’s ongoing crackdowns, partiuclalry on free speech there, I would not discount that as a strong possibility.
Attention Mr. Putin: Get one of them new fangled FireEye gadgets and your problems are over. You local Target store can provide a recommendation.
man i like your humor. :)
you are probably correct. wouldn’t surprise me if some are jewish as well.
Hi Mr. Head, I hope you are well. I’ve tried to determine which thread to post this on, and I chose to tag your comment. The following is part of an email I received a few hours ago from a female, Russian doctor. She remembers the Soviet oppression, as is described in the email. I paste it complete with her grammar, spelling, syntax. She wrote:
Friday (14/3)
4 hours ago
“I am shocked.. No..((
” I don,t think they will dare to go so far.. for blocking internet contacts or phone communications.
or..maybe I don,t know that much.. but I don,t believe in such crazy way of development.
” what I do believe and my big fear.. that they can make another isolation of us from inside.. if the West really makes as serious sunctions for somebody from the top of Putin,s regime as visa,s restrictions for them , their family ,who are such patriots in the words and blaming the West all the time,, SoMEHOW prefer to live and save the money in such bad West.. and as they say,,, freezinf of their accounts..
” in this case.. I think they are... being very mean people ( remember the Law of Dima Yakovlev ? ? it was a special pain for me.. !!). they could close the boundaries for everybody.. just as a logical continuation..
” if they- so VIPs and Big bosses here can not travel to West due to the sunctions... why others - just foolish and poor common people , who could not be such successful ( read - to steal so much from the budget and be corrupted) can do that freely..
” Besides.. as you know.. my country is wellknown as a specific place where a life means almost nothing.. and if for such big geopolotical game Russia has to pay... people will pay . common people..
who cares here for the price ? nobody and never.. People will pay for any stupidity of power , for dangerous risks , for anything.”
I had written to her regarding my belief that Putin is committed by ego to take Eastern Ukraine. I’ve read from European sources that he was paying attention to the Maidan beginning in November. Putin is under constant criticism in Russia. Their media suppresses the street revolts there. Putin , I read, seeing the example inside Ukraine, will have 2-3 years unless he solidifies his own power base.
Interesting times we live in today.
Gwjack
Get Snowden working on it. He’ll figure out who did it.
its now said to be “settled””science”.
BUSH Cheney and the Hal I. Burton did it...
Hillary ...er MRS Clinton will blame the whole affair on another YouTube Video
Its the NSA...
I vote Ukranians. Russia has raw power, and natural resources - but Ukraine has always had a lot of very smart people. Having dealt with some in my former career, where the intellectual property coming from Kiev was in some ways more advanced than the US, I think this could be the kind of shot across Russia’s bow that will remind Russia they have weaknesses that can be exploited, and those in the Ukraine will exploit them if pushed.
They’re not “rogue virus writers.”
They are patriots using asymmetrical warfare to stand up to the imperialist bear.
ukainer’s did it
MOSCOW, March 15, 13:33 /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has detected the source of interference in the work of a Russian television satellite. Appropriate services have detected the exact location of the source in Ukraine’s territory, the ministry said, noting the attempt to use radio-electronic war means against a Russian relay satellite was a violation of the International Telecommunication Union's charter of December 22, 1992.
Another pretext for invasion.
It was a Polish radio station that was the justification for Hitler to invade
“Yeah, people may cheer this, but I submit that if we did this it is very, very dangerous and will likely escalate things significantly.”
We didn’t do it.
Russia and Putin have some real enemies. Obama is their sycophant, he wouldn’t allow anyone to hurt his buddy Bad Vlad.
Most likely an inside job.
The Kremlin attacks are the black/grey/white-hat crowd competing to develop a “story” so they will be accepted as a speaker at DefCon-22.
..the product of the fertile minds of slacker hackers?
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