How Russia hacked the Democrats email

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

... in cyberwar, you will not read about any response in any media source until much later after the retaliatory strike occurs. No bombs will drop, no shots will be fired, no lives will be lost.

... No Commander in Chief will telegraph to his opponent when the strike will occur.

... there are elements of this, the greatest cyber attack on the USA ever, that could be designed to distract President Biden from his agenda. President Biden has decades of experience in how to handle foreign affairs and has already guaranteed a proportional, retaliatory strike will occur

... those who chose to dwell on the past are distracted from focussing on the future.

If there's no hurry for Biden to do anything then there's no hurry for an outgoing president to do anything. So, why are you being so vocal for Trump not taking swift action? Me thinks you are being hypocritical and need to pipe down. We know you hate Trump. We get it but don't try to piss on my foot and tell me it's raining.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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If there's no hurry for Biden to do anything then there's no hurry for an outgoing president to do anything. So, why are you being so vocal for Trump not taking swift action? Me thinks you are being hypocritical and need to pipe down. We know you hate Trump. We get it but don't try to piss on my foot and tell me it's raining.

... me thinks you have a chip on your shoulder. This indicates wood higher up.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

... me thinks you have a chip on your shoulder. This indicates wood higher up.

Tell me again why you've been calling for Trump to do something but say that there's no hurry at all for Biden to do anything? Me thinks you have a million dollar mouth and a 10-cent brain. lol

[slimslob]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

... me thinks you have a chip on your shoulder. This indicates wood higher up.

...me knows that you do. Get some professional for your hatred of President Trump and other conservatives as well.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Microsoft said it identified more than 40 of its customers that installed trojanized versions of the SolarWinds Orion platform and where hackers escalated intrusions with additional, second-stage payloads.

The OS maker said it was able to discover these intrusions using data collected by Microsoft Defender antivirus product, a free antivirus product built into all Windows installations.

Microsoft also said the attack is ongoing, with the hackers trying to compromise new companies still, despite the incident being public and actively investigated.

"It's certain that the number and location of victims will keep growing,"

[slimslob]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Tell me again why you've been calling for Trump to do something but say that there's no hurry at all for Biden to do anything? Me thinks you have a million dollar mouth and a 10-cent brain. lol

And how does he know that President Trump is not doing anything. Any activity currently being taken, or planned to be taken, by any government body to detect and defend against cyber attacks would be a matter of national security.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Tell me again why you've been calling for Trump to do something but say that there's no hurry at all for Biden to do anything? Me thinks you have a million dollar mouth and a 10-cent brain. lol

President Trump, please do something! A couple of tweets do not count. Stop trying to deflect by saying it was the Chinese who might have attacked disguised as the Russians.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

President Trump, please do something! A couple of tweets do not count. .

You want a do-over? Fine. Tell me that you were wrong and I'll let you slide. Cool?

[slimslob]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Microsoft said it identified more than 40 of its customers that installed trojanized versions of the SolarWinds Orion platform and where hackers escalated intrusions with additional, second-stage payloads.

The OS maker said it was able to discover these intrusions using data collected by Microsoft Defender antivirus product, a free antivirus product built into all Windows installations.

Microsoft also said the attack is ongoing, with the hackers trying to compromise new companies still, despite the incident being public and actively investigated.

"It's certain that the number and location of victims will keep growing,"

The problem with depending on Windows Defender does not always keep your computer safe. It and a number of the big name suites do not always detect newly released PUPs, Potentially Unwanted Programs. Also every person that I personally know that got hit with ransomware were depending on Defender to protect them.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

...me knows that you do. Get some professional for your hatred of President Trump and other conservatives as well.

A record number of US citizens voted one term Trump out of office as in "Your fired!"

If the Republicans did not control the Senate, Trump would have been removed from the highest office in the land before he could finish his only term as President.

The 2nd largest political party in Canada is called the Conservatives. A major British political party is called the Conservatives. The US version of conservatism is so far to the right, it often functions as a cover name co-opted by wacko extremism.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

A record number of US citizens voted one term Trump out of office as in "Your fired!"

If the Republicans did not control the Senate, Trump would have been removed from the highest office in the land before he could finish his only term as President.

The 2nd largest political party in Canada is called the Conservatives. A major British political party is called the Conservatives. The US version of conservatism is so far to the right, it often functions as a cover name co-opted by wacko extremism.

Riots. Arson. Violence.


That was all done by the side you support, dem fanboy.

And it's "You're fired".

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Riots. Arson. Violence.


That was all done by the side you support, dem fanboy.

And it's "You're fired".

... let me know when you can add something of value to a discussion about the largest cyber attack on the US in history.

[slimslob]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

A record number of US citizens voted one term Trump out of office as in "Your fired!"

An interesting thing about that, a record number of votes were cast for the loosing candidate. In fact President Trump received enough vote to have won every previous Presidential election.

Another interesting thing, in most Democrat controlled counties and states that were more votes cast than there were registered voters. In some places as much as 25% more. And why did so many ballots only have votes for President and not for any of the down ticket candidates or propositions?

Proven yet or not there must have been some type of voting fraud.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Law enforcement take down three bulletproof VPN providers

The three VPN services provided safe haven for cybercriminals to carry out ransomware attacks, web skimming operations, spear-phishing, and account takeovers.

Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have seized this week the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims.

According to the US Department of Justice and Europol, the three companies' servers were often used to mask the real identities of ransomware gangs, web skimmer (Magecart) groups, online phishers, and hackers involved in account takeovers, allowing them to operate from behind a proxy network up to five layers deep.


Law enforcement described the three as "bulletproof hosting services," a term typically used to describe web companies that don't take down criminal content, despite repeated requests.

"A bulletproof hoster's activities may include ignoring or fabricating excuses in response to abuse complaints made by their customer's victims; moving their customer accounts and/or data from one IP address, server, or country to another to help them evade detection; and not maintaining logs (so that none are available for review by law enforcement)," the DOJ said today.

Servers were seized this week across five countries where the three VPN providers had hosted content. Europol said it plans to analyze the collected information and start cases to identify and take action against some of the services' users.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: How Russia hacked the Democrats email

Biden says U.S. will 'respond in kind' for SolarWinds hack blamed on Russia


Biden says U.S. will 'respond in kind' for hacking blamed on Russia

President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration will retaliate for a massive cyberattack that targeted U.S. government agencies and is believed to have been carried out by Russian hackers.

“When I learn the extent of the damage and in fact who is formally responsible, they can be assured that we will respond. And probably respond in kind. There’s many options, which I will not discuss now,” Biden said during a press conference with reporters that followed his remarks on the coronavirus pandemic, cybersecurity and the upcoming Christmas holiday.

Pressed by a reporter about what sort of responses were being considered, Biden declined to provide detail, saying it was against norms to outline potential attacks on enemies in such a public forum.

In the attack, the hackers used advanced techniques to target government and corporate networks, including those of IT management company SolarWinds, to steal sensitive information. U.S. officials maintain that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) would need weeks, if not months, to determine the scale and scope of the damage.

U.S. officials maintain that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) would need weeks, if not months, to determine the scale and scope of the damage.

During his address, Biden noted that both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and outgoing Attorney General William Barr blamed Russia for the cyberattack. He also chided President Trump, who has spent the bulk of his lame-duck period tweeting about supposed election interference.

Trump acknowledged the attack last week, accusing the media of exaggerating its severity while casting doubt that Russia was behind it.

“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.”

Hours earlier, however, Pompeo said of the attack, “We can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians.”

Biden believes the White House should make an “official attribution” that Russia was behind the attack.

“This attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security,” he said. “The truth is this: The Trump administration failed to prioritize cybersecurity.”

The rebuke over Trump’s handling of the attack was perhaps the sharpest criticism Biden has leveled at the president since the election. “This assault happened on Donald Trump’s watch, when he wasn’t watching,” Biden added.

The president-elect pledged that his administration will prioritize cybersecurity and seemed resigned to the notion that it was, like the pandemic, one more challenge that he would inherit when he is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

“His failure will land at my doorstep,” Biden said of Trump.