SolarWinds Hackers Accessed DOJ Emails, But there's No Indication They Reached Classified Systems (cnbc.com) 44
Hackers who tapped into government networks through SolarWinds software potentially accessed about 3% of the Justice Department's email accounts, but there's no indication they accessed classified systems, a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. From a report: The DOJ Office of the Chief Information Officer learned of the hack the day of Christmas Eve, according to the statement, where agents accessed the Department's Microsoft Office 365 email environment. "As part of the ongoing technical analysis, the department has determined that the activity constitutes a major incident under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, and is taking the steps consistent with that determination," the spokesperson said. "The department will continue to notify the appropriate federal agencies, Congress, and the public as warranted."
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Too many voters treat politics like a sports game (doesn't matter as long as my team wins, and the other side is evil not nuanced).
The politicians are doing the song and dance that the voters want. Think of it as if Buzzfeed fell off the web and into politics. Or rather, perhaps the other way around.
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Your analogy is flawed because USA sports have more integrity than USA politics. I've seen baseball teams brawl, but never seen a team deny the score after the game was final. Cheating is routinely punished in sports, and while we might occasionally disagree with officials I can't recall any noteworthy cases of a zebra being bought. Cheating and buying off the "official" has been flagrant and open in US politics for decades. Maybe FIFA is as corrupt as US poltics, but you generaly don't think of it in t
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Every situation is unprecedented, especially if you want it to be.
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I keep hearing about these "violent leftists"
https://apnews.com/article/us-... [apnews.com]
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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No they don't. But I get it. These are "mostly peaceful" insurrectionists.
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I keep hearing about these "violent leftists"
https://apnews.com/article/us-... [apnews.com]
I'm wondering why these people weren't shot the moment they set foot inside the capitol after pushing past police barriers, let alone trying to get into the House and Senate chambers. They were determined to cause violence and did so. That's more than enough to use force on them.
I guess when you're white, the rules are different. Just like when they damaged the Michigan capitol [detroitnews.com].
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One was. She's dead. The government killed an unarmed protestor.
...who was invading the Capitol Police's final bastion.
Also, I heard from a friend who saw on instagram a statement from an unknown person that the insurrectionist was seen reaching for her waistband, so it's all good.
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Do you have a list of the people killed by leftists? I'll check back.
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Does it look like anyone even attempted to kill or harm members of the government here.
Answer possible a few radicals had pipe bombs.
On the other hand we have BLM protesters setting police precincts on fire with people known to still be inside and making it hard to evacuate those places.
I am not excusing any of this. This was despicable and everyone there who did not leave immediately the moment property damage and unlawful entry started to occur should be arrested and kept in cage like the animals they ar
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Did you see that woman try and climb through the barricaded doors into the senate and get shot in the neck? Maybe she should have complied with law enforcement! https://www.reddit.com/r/Publi... [reddit.com]
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play stupid games - win stupid prizes.
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Do you have a list of the people killed by leftists? I'll check back.
Can we also get the list of unarmed white guys apprehended and killed by cops in broad daylight? And the list of white guys shot in their beds in the middle of the night.
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(Crickets)
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And yet, not buildings have been burned.
Not yet. Here is video of the terrorists destroying government property [9cache.com] as they attempt to foment a coup. Here's a picture of them stealing government property [9cache.com].
Give it a few minutes for more pictures to come through of what these terrorists are doing and see what other excuses you can come up with.
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Forgot to add the Bugaloo who both shot at a police station and burned it [theguardian.com], then bragged about it. You'll note in the story, one of the other right-wing terrorists shot two police officers and killed a third. In addition, the right-wing terrorist group they belong to have killed other people as well as tried to overthrow a state government.
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Nice.
Trump told his morning crowd at the Ellipse that he would go with them to the Capitol, but he didn’t. Instead he sent them off with incendiary rhetoric.
Cue evil smirk as he disappears behind a hidden door.
“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he said. “Let the weak ones get out,” he went on. “This is a time for strength.”
Funny that they think that it's "their" country, not anybody elses.
His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told the crowd, “Let’s have trial by combat.”
Ah. Trump's "Marshal Ney".
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At one point in time, I considered myself a member of the GOP. Fiscal conservatism, faith in God, I bought into it all. The current stuff happening at the Capitol has lost any respect I had for them. We need a 3rd party.
While I considered myself a Republican at one point too, I'm not so sure the warhawks on either side of the isle, have demonstrated anything close to fiscal conservatism in over two decades. Those endless wars sure as hell aren't free, taking both blood and taxpayer dollars.
And NO, the "need" is not another damn party. We need ONE fucking party, to get rid of the bullshit finger-pointing excuses that leave We The People starving for crumbs while corruption feeds the Donor Class.
Fuck two-sided political GA
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There is something wrong with you if you think those are typical Republicans. I see white trash jail birds being disorderly.
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Yeah clearly storming government buildings to interrupt due process is being "disorderly". I mean don't these people have jobs? Even funnier to see some carrying rebel flags.
Make no mistake, had these "disorderly" people been of a darker skin tone the tear gas and rubber bullets would have been flying long ago.
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That's silly to say, some of rioters today were beaten with clubs, gassed and one shot. A white woman taking the lead pill, that's gender and racial equality right there.
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A tender shoot of hope, for sure.
Can we stop with this glass half full nonsense (Score:4, Interesting)
We have:
Case A. Best Case Scenario, someone grabbed a Russian APT from somewhere and took it for a spin.
Case B. This is a Russian hack and it dates from the time the software was in circulation. The software was not updated to a newer one in order not to jeopardise the hack in progress. That means that for two years, the Russians have had GOD level access to the networks of DOJ, CIA, NSA, GCHQ and most NATO government. That is the level of access you get with SolarWinds Orion. It is an NMS which is entitled to query everything, deploy its own agents, update its own agents (apparently without cryptographic verification) and alter system settings at will. The hack appears to be so deep that it reached the selected few machines of the team which has access to the current Microsoft Windows source for the purposes of er.... you better not know. If this has continued for THREE F*CKING YEARS, the idea that "no classified data was harmed in this experiment" is absolutely preposterous.
So which one is it? Case A or Case B. If it is Case A then it is possible that no classified data was accessed. If it is Case B, can we stop putting lipstick on the pig. It is time to kiss it and say the vows.
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So back to my statement. If the Russians h
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Regardless of whether it is "Case A" or "Case B" it is unlikely that classified information was accessed, or at least unlikely that *much* classified information was accessed. US government classified information is not (generally) kept on systems attached to unclassified networks, and classified networks aren't just "firewalled" off unclassified networks, they are air-gapped albeit sometimes with a carefully-controlled "write up" capability.
How badly someone got hit by Solarwinds as a vector for an attac
Terrorists have accessed the U.S. capitol (Score:1, Offtopic)
A group of terrorists have pushed past DC and capitol police [cnn.com] in an attempt to storm the House chamber. Officers have drawn their guns at one of the terrorists who was trying to gain access.
Video from the Senate floor shows a terrorist at the Senate dias. Members of Congress have been evacuated to undisclosed locations. Reports of possible pipe bombs at several locations throughout Washington, D.C. have been reported.
Federal law enforcement officers have been called in to bolster the defenses. One can onl
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You don't understand that the hyped white trash jail birds are literally the ones who hacked the DOJ servers. That's how they knew where the pizza party was, the Russians told them how.
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the Russians told them how.
Yes, they did [businessinsider.com].
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Bro, you gotta chill out. All this stuff is for show.
Any DOJ Breach is a Classified Breach (Score:2)
What an uninformed article!
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No trace. (Score:2)
Misleading Crap (Score:1)
Hackers did not install the SolarWinds software updates. The victims hoisted themselves by their own petards though their own incompetence.