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To: RealVirginia

“How many knuckle dragging morons will question this?”

Russia got Trump elected in 2000. Russia only started hacking things after biden was elected. Thankfully Russia was caught before they could get Trump back into office. Russia loves Trump!

P.S. - I have no idea why Russia loves President Trump so much. I only know what I hear from CNN.

P.P.S. Russia seems to be very withdrawn and isolated today compared to 10 to 20 years ago; I don’t think the USA is priority one anymore. China on the other hand....


22 posted on 12/18/2020 3:43:56 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: 21twelve

RussiaRussiaRussia never ends, Mitt? give it up:

16 Dec: UK Express: Google disclosed ‘cyber attack’ by China was ‘highly sophisticated’ hack on security data
GOOGLE was on the receiving end of an alleged “cyber attack” originating from China, in what was a major breach of its security infrastructure.
By Callum Hoare
Google suffered a global outage this week, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. The US tech company said it was caused by an issue with its authentication tools which manage how users log in to its services. But some, including security expert Will Geddes, feared Gmail – which has more than 1.5 billion global users – may have been sabotaged by hackers.
Speaking after the worldwide crash, Mr Geddes said: “The sky is the limit in terms of what data they could have stolen.”...

Operation Aurora was the name given to a series of cyber attacks believed to have originated in Beijing, China and said to have links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
They began in mid-2009 and were first publicly disclosed by Google in a 2010 blog post...
Operation Aurora reportedly also targeted at least 34 other companies, including Adobe, Juniper, Rackspace, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley, and Yahoo!...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1373272/google-gmail-youtube-down-hack-cyber-attack-china-operation-aurora-security-breach-spt

18 Dec: LiveMint: Chinese hackers targeted millions of Indians with shopping scams: Report
by Abhijit Ahaskar
Cyberpeace Foundation found that domain links created for the scams were registered in China to an entity called Fang Xiao Qing. Domains were registered using Alibaba’s cloud computing platform...
Some of these scam contests used elements from actual sales campaigns used by Amazon India and Flipkart to make them look legitimate and trick users.
For instance, “Big Billion Days Spin the Lucky Wheel” and “Amazon Big Billion Day Sale” surfaced within days of Flipkart announcing its Big Billion Day Sale...

“E-commerce scams are not new but what’s more alarming is the covert cyber warfare Chinese entities are launching in India on a repeated basis,” Vineet Kumar, Founder and President, CyberPeace Foundation said in a statement...
Following the border dispute with China in May- June, such attacks have risen. In June, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma had warned several government agencies, media houses, pharma companies, telecom operators and a large tyre company of a possible cyberattack by Gothic Panda and Stone Panda, two well-known hacking groups with direct affiliation to the China’s PLA (People’s Liberation Army)...
https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/chinese-hackers-targeted-millions-of-indians-with-shopping-scams-report-11608278583471.html


23 posted on 12/18/2020 3:46:29 AM PST by MAGAthon
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