She’s been the recipient of $2.4 million from the Dept of Homeland Security
snip- Journalists from the on-line investigative news site The Intercept, who said sources used by Foer showed them some of the same material earlier, reached a similar conclusion after consulting with several cybersecurity experts. But this is a conclusion that top cyber-security experts quoted by Foer, including several who monitored the activity of the servers, rejected as nearly impossible after reviewing the evidence.
“I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” said Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. Davis, who won an FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks, said of the Trump-Alfa Bank server links, “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.”
Internet cyber-security pioneer Paul Vixie told Foer, “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.”
The computer logs in question, these cyber-security experts said, suggested that Trump and Alfa had configured something like a digital hotline connecting the two entities, shutting out the rest of the world, and designed to obscure its own existence.
Moreover, “At election-related moments, the traffic peaked,” said Indiana University computer scientist L. Jean Camp. There were many more Domain Name System lookups between them, for example, during the Democratic and GOP national political conventions./snip