RE: WikiLeaks publishes searchable database of almost 20,000 emails from DNC.
July 28, 2016 at 12:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2016 at 12:56 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 28, 2016 at 7:52 am)Bella Morte Wrote: I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that it was the Russians who hacked the emails. Julian Assange and other WikiLeaks editors are refusing to name the source.
If it was the Russians, then good for them.
(July 28, 2016 at 12:17 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Yeah, there is no evidence. Some people have speculated that it might be them. One Russian hacker has claimed some credit/blame, but there is no evidence he works for Putin. It's just people using the century old 'ooooh Russia, scary!' tactic. Russia isn't our enemy anymore. What's scary is Hillary antagonizing Russia. I'd much rather have a president who gets along with Russia.
Did you not see my post above?
(July 27, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Well, in this case the accusation seems justified:
Wired.com Wrote:News of the hack of the Democratic National Committee first broke in mid-June. That’s when Crowdstrike, a firm that analyzes threats to network security, revealed that the DNC had called it in to inspect the party’s servers, where it found “two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network.” Crowdstrike released a comprehensive report of its findings on June 14, which accompanied a Washington Post article detailing the attacks. One of the hacking groups, Crowdstrike found, had access to the DNC servers for almost a year.
A day after that report, someone calling themselves Guccifer 2.0 (an allusion to notorious hacker Guccifer) claimed claimed responsibility for the hack in a blog post. Through the blog and an accompanying Twitter account, Guccifer 2.0 refuted Crowdstrike’s claims that this was a Russian operation, instead calling himself a “lone hacker.” He also claimed to have handed much of the DNC bounty to Wikileaks.
The following week, two cybersecurity firms, Fidelis Cybersecurity and Mandiant, independently corroborated Crowdstrike’s assessment that Russian hackers infiltrated DNC networks, having found that the two groups that hacked into the DNC used malware and methods identical to those used in other attacks attributed to the same Russian hacking groups.
But some of the most compelling evidence linking the DNC breach to Russia was found at the beginning of July by Thomas Rid, a professor at King’s College in London, who discovered an identical command-and-control address hardcoded into the DNC malware that was also found on malware used to hack the German Parliament in 2015. According to German security officials, the malware originated from Russian military intelligence. An identical SSL certificate was also found in both breaches.
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/heres-know...-dnc-hack/
No doubt Russia would prefer a Trump Presidency, given his diffidence about our NATO commitments.
Hope that helps. Read the entire article at the provided link.
You can say "there's no evidence" all you want, but that is factually incorrect.