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To: Hostage; ColdOne
CrowdStrike was started by McAffee scumbags in 2012. They are called scumbags because they wrote viruses for which they terrorized their customer base to buy anti-virus software to guard against the viruses they wrote.
Link?

38 posted on 06/25/2017 12:27:27 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Look at the team at the Crowdstrike website. Look at Kurtz and Alperovich. Look at LinkedIn and other search engine results.

You will find it easily.


40 posted on 06/25/2017 12:29:46 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Just the high points, ever link contains additional info...

Alperovitch is a founder of CrowdStrike
https://www.crowdstrike.com/about-us/ (see video)

$100M of funding for CrowdStrike is from Warburg Pincus.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/warburg-pincus#/entity
http://www.warburgpincus.com/investments/crowdstrike/

$56M from Accel
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crowdstrike#/entity

$100M from Google

Timothy Geithner is President of Warburg Pincus
http://www.warburgpincus.com/people/industry/executive-management/

Geithner was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under Bill Clinton.

At the Wikipedia page for Geithner is a photo of Geithner and SoS Hillary Clinton. They co-chaired the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meeting in Washington in 2009 and in Beijing in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-China_Strategic_and_Economic_Dialogue

There are seven members of CrowdStrike Board of Directors, two of whom are also Board members at Warburg Pincus: Cary Davis and Joseph Landy.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/board-of-directors/

CrowdStrike is heavily funded by Warburg Pincus and 30% of it’s Board members are from Warburg Pincus, a company lead by Clinton associate Timothy Geithner. And CrowdStrike just so happens to be the promoter of the Russia-hacked-the-DNC narrative.

Since Alperovitch’s financiers and directors are associated with Clinton his disinterest might reasonably be questioned.

(Jun 14, 2016) DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) said, “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately.” - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

Why CrowdStrike?

From the same article: CrowdStrike is not sure how the hackers got in. The firm suspects they may have targeted DNC employees with “spearphishing” emails. These are communications that appear legitimate — often made to look like they came from a colleague or someone trusted — but that contain links or attachments that when clicked on deploy malicious software that enables a hacker to gain access to a computer. “But we don’t have hard evidence,” Alperovitch said.

Crowdstrike/Alperovitch bases his claim partly on the claims of a Russian blogger. The blogger claims that Ukrainian military units were targeted via malware inserted onto Ukrainian tablet computers, the malware provided to Russia the location of Ukrainian troops. As “evidence” the blogger cites a 2016 International Institute for Strategic Studies report of a sharp reduction of Ukrainian D-30 howitzers between 2013 and 2015. Ukraine denies any large loss of D-30 howitzers. Alperovitch claims this same malware was used to breach the DNC email system. The malware has been available for years prior to the DNC breach. http://www.voanews.com/a/skeptics-doubt-ukraine-hack-link-to-dnc-cyberattack/3649234.html URL for the blog post mentioned in the VOA article http://thesaker.is/ukrainian-army-losses-in-ato-anti-terrorist-operation-according-to-the-iisss-military-balance/

In Crowdstrike’s report Alperovitch refers to APT 28 and APT 29 as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear”. Why does Alperovtich refer to APT 28 and APT 29 as “Fancy Bear” and “Cozy Bear”? Why use these colorful names rather than the accepted technical names? (APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat). Is he selling an idea, supporting a narrative?

Alperovitch told the PBS NewsHour: “And when you think about, well, who would be interested in targeting Ukraine artillerymen in eastern Ukraine? Who has interest in hacking the Democratic Party? [The] Russia government comes to mind” - http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

Why does Alperovitch think Russia has an interest in hacking the Democrat Party?

What are Alperovitch’s biases?

Think Tank: Cyber Firm at Center of Russian Hacking Charges Misread Data - One of the IISS researchers who produced the data said that while the think tank had dramatically lowered its estimates of Ukrainian artillery assets and howitzers in 2013, it did so as part of a “reassessment” and reallocation of units to airborne forces. “No, we have never attributed this reduction to combat losses,” the IISS researcher said, explaining that most of the reallocation occurred prior to the two-year period that CrowdStrike cites in its report. “The vast majority of the reduction actually occurs ... before Crimea/Donbass,” he added, referring to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. - http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

CrowdStrike Rewrites Part of Disputed Russian Hacking Report - CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3539028/posts?page=1 http://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-russian-hacking-report/3781411.html

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https://www.crowdstrike.com/george-kurtz/

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
SUITE SUITE E-519
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

George Kurtz, Director, Executive Officer
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

Donald Gregg Marston, Executive Officer, CFO
30251 GOLDEN LANTERN
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIFORNIA 92677

Patrick Severson, Director
450 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017

Total Offering Amount: $26,000,000
Total Amount Sold: $10,250,000
Total Remaining to be Sold: $15,750,000

Clarification of Response (if Necessary):
$500,000 worth of sale is being covered through a share exchange

total number of investors who already have invested in the offering: 6

Signed: Donald Gregg Marston, 2011-12-02

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000153552711000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

7/13/2015 - CrowdStrike landed a $100 million Series C investment round. The round was led by Google Capital with Rackspace, which happens to be one of the company’s customers also investing. Existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus also participated. Today’s investment brings the total to-date to $156 million. The company was launched by former executives from McAfee in 2011. Its most recent funding was a $30 million round in September, 2013.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/13/security-company-crowdstrike-scores-100m-led-by-google-capital/

9/8/2013 - CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners. Founding investor Warbug Pincus also participated in the funding. The company was founded by former McAffee CTO George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch, who was previously vice president of advanced threat research, also at McAfee.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/crowdstrike-raises-30m-for-data-security-platform-built-to-put-adversaries-on-the-defensive/

8/21/2013 - Patrick Severson has quietly stepped down as a managing director with private equity firm Warburg Pincus, Fortune has learned.

Severson originally joined Warburg Pincus in 2001 to focus on software and healthcare technology investments. Deals included Nuance Communications (nuan), CrowdStrike, iParadigms, Spigot and Telcordia.

http://fortune.com/2013/08/21/exclusive-tech-investor-leaves-warburg-pincus/

Crowdstrike/Alperovitch is closely associated with and heavily funded by Clinton colleague Timothy Geithner.

The DNC refused to allow the gov to investigate. The gov relied on Crowdstrike/Alperovitch claims that Russia hacked the DNC email system.

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Alperovitch is a Russian expatriate and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council policy research center in Washington. - http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/dmitri-alperovitch

Victor Pinchuk sits on the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. He has donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-charity-tapped-foreign-friends-1426818602

The Atlantic Council of the United States and Burisma Group, an independent gas producer in Ukraine, have announced a cooperative agreement. Atlantic Council will develop programs with Burisma’s support to strengthen transatlantic relations, including a focus on energy security and related issues. - http://burisma.com/en/news/the-atlantic-council-of-the-united-states-and-burisma-group-sign-cooperative-agreement/

Hunter Biden - Director - Appointed: April 2014 (Vice President Joe Biden’s son) - http://burisma.com/en/director/xanter-bajden/

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63 posted on 06/25/2017 3:25:44 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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