Posted on 10/01/2015 1:45:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Russia-linked hackers tried at least five times to trick Hillary Rodham Clinton into infecting her computer systems while she was secretary of state, newly released emails show. It is unclear whether she was fooled into clicking any attachments to expose her account.
Clinton received the virus-riddled emails, disguised as speeding tickets from New York, over four hours early on the morning of Aug. 3, 2011. The emails instructed recipients to print the attached tickets—and opening them would have allowed hackers to take over control of a victim’s computer.
Security researchers who analyzed the malicious software in September 2011 said that infected computers would transmit information from victims to at least three server computers overseas, including one in Russia. That doesn’t necessarily mean Russian intelligence or citizens were responsible.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign, said: “We have no evidence to suggest she replied to this email or that she opened the attachment. As we have said before, there is no evidence that the system was ever breached. All these emails show is that, like millions of other Americans, she received spam.” …
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Smartest woman in the world stored classified documents on an unsecured private server.
Now her latest defense: its just spam.
Government e-mail systems don’t get spam.
No problem (/snix).
That was one of the several hundred State Dept emails found on the Clinton Foundation server.
Clinton crony, Sidney Blumenthal, being paid $350,000 by the Foundation, to (gag) protect the Clinton presidential legacy, helpfully paid the tickets...figuring that would advance his job opportunities in a Hillary WH.
“Clinton crony, Sidney Blumenthal, being paid $350,000 by the Foundation, to (gag) protect the Clinton presidential legacy, helpfully paid the tickets”
A fiend in need, is a fiend indeed!
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