Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:
Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.
Better fight with bits than blood.
Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood.
Or, less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the country? Or power? <snip>
Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope
it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up.
In at least one of the several, it was a phishing attack. In another case, someone responded slowly to a query... and had a typo saying the *reverse* of what they meant to say.
mark
On 01/09/2017 01:51 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:
Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.
Better fight with bits than blood.
Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood.
Or, less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the country? Or power?
<snip> > Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up.
In at least one of the several, it was a phishing attack. ....
Though not being a professional cyber spy, still I don't see how it's possible at all to determine the source of the hack. Once someone's machine succumbs to a phish, the attacker could install something like tor which would conceal all hacker traffic with the hacked machine. Indeed, a professional could, further, set up a chain or web of such compromised machines, each connected to the other via tor to further hide the hacker's home... if that would even be necessary (?).
Moreover, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2jD4SF9gFE and others also provide enlightening expert details about the software allegedly used in the hack, maintaining it was a couple years old, not even the latest versions available "off the shelf" on the dark web, hardly software which would be used by a state agent.
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