Posted on 06/14/2013 2:40:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Shortly after the news broke that the Department of Justice had been secretly monitoring the phones and email accounts of Associated Press and Fox News reporters (and the parents of Fox News Correspondent James Rosen), CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson said her computer seemed like it had been compromised. Turns out, it was:
"A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkissons computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkissons accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.Attkisson has lead the way in exposing and covering Operation Fast and Furious, Solyndra and Benghazi.
This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.
CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.
She said in an interview Friday that she was outraged by the breach, which did not appear to be aimed at extracting personal financial information.
This wasnt any ordinary malware of a phishing attempt, that is, an effort to gain personal information, she said. I assume someone wanted to see what I was working on.
The privacy and security of every American citizen in his own home, not to mention the work of a journalist, is sacrosanct. The idea that an unknown party could come into your home electronically is upsetting and disturbing. .?.?. People should be disturbed that a reporter would be spied on and intimidated this way. I do feel that this was an attempt to make me feel intimidated.
Slimestein suffers from terminal ignorance.
Possibly true, but she may have been hacked / cracked when connected to a public site that allows device discovery. Probably not - probably was an "inside job" from a SysAdmin who opened her computer to an outside agent - directed by CBS cronies of ObaMao.
If an employee is on the corporate LAN, then their computer's IP address should not be routable - therefore, external devices cannot discover or gain access to the computer1. Certain OS features or specialized software can be used to connect from the Internet through a firewall to a PC (on the private corporate network), but it's turned off by any corporate admin worth their salt.
1 A firewall takes the corporate public IP address used to connect to the Internet and obfuscates it on the private side by issuing a non-routable IP address to all connected devices in order to route traffic between the private and public (Internet) domains. It's called NAT - Network Address Translation - gives devices on the corporate side an IP address in the 192.xxx.xxx.xxx range.
It probably is generalized. They intercept everything on the Internet before showing up at communication vendor servers. From The Washington Post - A Story of Surveillance
The technician, who was about to retire, handed him some wiring diagrams."That was my 'aha!' moment," Klein said. "They're sending the entire Internet to the secret room."
The diagram showed splitters, glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies. One fed into the secret room, the other proceeded to its destination, he said.
"This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style," he said. "The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's."
One of Klein's documents listed links to 16 entities
I think that she was born with a demon for a brain.
LLS
Its the Commie way
Next step is 2 bullets to the head
That’s how Putin plays the game, the CPUSA in charge of the WH is sending a message
ALL Democrats are demon-possessed...how else could you support abortion and the sodomite agenda? Demon-possessed...period.
“CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.
and after we determine the political affiliations of the intruder, we will decide whether to pursue this, or not.
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