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A Secret Service agent inserted a USB drive infected with malware into his laptop [title truncated]
Business Insider ^
| April 8, 2019
| liza Relman
Posted on 04/08/2019 5:00:39 PM PDT by edwinland
A US Secret Service agent inserted a USB drive infected with "malicious malware" into his laptop after the hardware was confiscated from a Chinese woman who was arrested late last month after attempting to gain entry to President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Agent Samuel Ivanovich testified in court on Monday that he put the thumb drive into his own computer, and it began installing files in a "very out-of-the-ordinary" way. He quickly stopped his analysis of the drive, the Miami Herald reported.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 20190330; china; florida; malware; maralago; maralagospy; secretservice; securitybreach; ssagent; thumbdrive; usss; yujingzhang
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This could be the reason the woman was practically begging to get arrested specifically by the secret service, it could have resulted in a serious breach of Trump's advance team and security protection details and may be the reason Trump fired the Secret Service director.
Google "Stuxnet"
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:00:39 PM PDT
by
edwinland
To: edwinland
Smart move.
Promote him to Director!
/s
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:03:25 PM PDT
by
chris37
(Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
To: edwinland
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:04:20 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: edwinland
“Samuel Ivanovich”
Russians. Again!
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:05:15 PM PDT
by
Liberty Ship
("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
To: chris37
He actually thought it would be a good idea to test it out on his laptop. There are no words.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:06:36 PM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: Liberty Ship
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:07:08 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
Must’ve thought it contained the next Avengers’ movie.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:07:42 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:08:40 PM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: dinodino
Why did my screen turn blue?
To: a fool in paradise
haha that was well played!
To: edwinland
Makes me wish for the days when these clowns just cavorted with hookers. Then, they could only infect themselves with a virus.
To: a fool in paradise
Maybe it was pee porn video of russian escorts peeing on a bed with Trump in the room?? /s
To: edwinland
I am sure Agent Ivanovich disabled his network connection, etc., before turning his laptop into a strictly useless ‘test device’ that would never see any real Secret Service business activity again.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:15:21 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: edwinland
Something doesn’t sound right. Her cover story is TOO thin to be a rel spy.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:16:02 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
As long as it was isolated from other networks...
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:17:13 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
To: edwinland
To: edwinland
I have worked with the SS regarding a hack on a bank. Not the most skilled bunch.
Having said that, at some point in time, it is necessary to see what is on the USB ... by a forensic investigator and using special tools on hardened and isolated laptops.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:19:33 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
To: Blood of Tyrants
"Something doesn’t sound right. Her cover story is TOO thin to be a real spy.
Does she work for Huawei?
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:21:19 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
As long as it was his laptop, with no connection to the bureau.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:27:47 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
He actually thought it would be a good idea to test it out on his laptop. There are no words.
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posted on
04/08/2019 5:29:26 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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