Hack has been going on for 6 to 9 months and our government is scratching its ass trying to figure it out
Massive Russian Hack against Federal Agenciesi
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Did you watch the video I posted?
I’m not saying Russia are the good guys or that Putin isn’t a prick but do you remember a few years back they had become almost allies? Do you recall that after the fall of the Soviet Union they needed and received aid from the US? Do you realize they are now a relatively small and poor country? Do you know that before she started blaming them for Trumps victory, Hillary Clinton sold them 20% of our enriched uranium?
If I’m China and am hoping to become the worlds only super power, I’m going to point the finger at Russia and put former rivals at each other’s throat so they don’t see me doing my dirty work. Just sayin.
I’m not saying Russia are the good guys or that Putin isn’t a prick but do you remember a few years back they had become almost allies? Do you recall that after the fall of the Soviet Union they needed and received aid from the US? Do you realize they are now a relatively small and poor country? Do you know that before she started blaming them for Trumps victory, Hillary Clinton sold them 20% of our enriched uranium?
If I’m China and am hoping to become the worlds only super power, I’m going to point the finger at Russia and put former rivals at each other’s throat so they don’t see me doing my dirty work. Just sayin.
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There is an old saying in IT. "If it looks like Russia, it's not Russia."
I will say this however, The "Hack" itself was ingenious. They hacked a large software solution provider that hundreds of thousands of companies use. The software itself is monitoring software for computer assets in large compute environments. So there is a master server in the company and then an agent installed on every system the company wants to monitor. The hackers got in the parent company and was injecting malicious code into legitimate automatic software updates. To the customer this looked like a valid update from a trusted source. The hackers even went so far as to put it on the companies software update site. In essense they let Microsoft distribute the hack for them. After that they had free access. I will say this. The federal government may have known about this since last spring but just now made it public. When it comes to espionage if they immediately slam the door then the hacker knows everything he has is valid. But if you pretend not to notice and feed in bogus data for 6 months you can considerably muddy the water. That way when you do slam the door the hacker doesn't know whats good and whats bogus.
I will say this however, The "Hack" itself was ingenious. They hacked a large software solution provider that hundreds of thousands of companies use. The software itself is monitoring software for computer assets in large compute environments. So there is a master server in the company and then an agent installed on every system the company wants to monitor. The hackers got in the parent company and was injecting malicious code into legitimate automatic software updates. To the customer this looked like a valid update from a trusted source. The hackers even went so far as to put it on the companies software update site. In essense they let Microsoft distribute the hack for them. After that they had free access. I will say this. The federal government may have known about this since last spring but just now made it public. When it comes to espionage if they immediately slam the door then the hacker knows everything he has is valid. But if you pretend not to notice and feed in bogus data for 6 months you can considerably muddy the water. That way when you do slam the door the hacker doesn't know whats good and whats bogus.
Yep, yep, and yep - its our intelligence agencies making this hack claim - do you know Russia has a 30 year deal with China to sell them natural gas - the aide we gave Russia was under Boris Yeltsin in the 90's not Putin - none of this back and forth means shit - we have been hacked by the Russians and who ever they ally with as reported by our intelligence agency - this is not some kind of contest - just a news report although i was shocked at the 6 to 9 months duration of the hack