Have any of you caught the new Wiki leaks dump?
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I get what you are saying. State actors are absolutely exploiting every security whole they can find, but know that it is just as bad in the criminal space as well.
Right they should have let Apple know that there was a major flaw in either the code or what ever and had them do an update so Americans and other where protected from criminals but instead they exploited it to their benefit and left us open to cyber crimes. IMO that is chicken poo.
You did....at least I think so. I'm commenting that excessive surveillance of American citizens is neither new or limited to either party's presidential administrations or as far as has been shown so far, the present one.
The best thing he could do to blow up the "uniparty" is declassify everything he can on everything he can including any intelligence that may have been collected on Russia, himself, his associates, release his tax returns and all information on NSA programs, post them on a public crowdsourcing server and let the chips fall where they may.
Presently he isn't being any more or less transparent than the "uniparty" with the American people.
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Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and the democrats they all did it IMO. This is a game all these governments play they don't care about us only getting more power.
And the Republicans before the Democrats too?
That position I could get behind....in fact, that's what I believe.
Yes them as well. One reason I think the media is walking a tight line because if they get the public against the media except for certain outlets then they control the news and can get away with anything.
So, the CIA has video and audio thru all of these devices to be able to blackmail every government official in Washington.
Allegedly.
Based upon allegations of someone that hasn't been a part of the operations for 15+ years.
Not denying it is possible or evaluating the likelihood (which frankly seems pretty high to me), just noting your statement of fact hasn't been conclusively established.
I almost typed my comment in blue, but scary if they had that capability, it could really be misused.
Smart TV's, Cell Phones, modern car audio with bluetooth, GPS, fitness trackers, Alexa, PC audio and video, wifi video doorbells, thermostats, garage door openers, security cameras, connected cars... all technically hackable and usable for surveillance.
If you can connect to the Internet you are vulnerable to hacking. They are going to get in easier than lone hackers. The government is working as individual groups. The NSA will collect all data that goes across the Internet. The FBI, CIA each have thier own "Internet and tech experts". Some are probably better than others.
Here is what I do. Just to Jerusalem them around I will go to sites I normally wouldn't. Most of us hide in the crowd. As long as you don't give them some reason to dig in you you have nothing to worry about. Which is sad because you shouldn't have to worry in the first place.
Here is what I do. Just to Jerusalem them around I will go to sites I normally wouldn't. Most of us hide in the crowd. As long as you don't give them some reason to dig in you you have nothing to worry about. Which is sad because you shouldn't have to worry in the first place.
oh just wait til you piss them off and they start crafting a trademark case against you.
100k in legal fees later it won't be funny
Kim Dotcom's is an intriguing source statement. Anyone can say anything but on the subject of hacking, he's an expert. And saying this as though it's a factual statement is interesting.
no need to apologize
my post was not meant as serious admonishment i was just going with the theme and it didn't translate well via text
cheers
Must be some truth to this.... or does the FBI now go n wild goose chases.
WikiLeaks’ reveal of CIA hacking trove has feds on mole hunt
By Cody Derespina
Published March 08, 2017
FoxNews.com
Manning. Snowden. Whose name is next to be added to the notorious list of government leakers?
The CIA is trying to answer that question right now.
A day after WikiLeaks released what it alleged to be the “entire hacking capacity of the CIA,” the focus Wednesday began shifting to just who gave the stunning surveillance information to the anti-secrecy website.
“There is heavy s--- coming down,” said a veteran cyber contractor for the intelligence community who previously worked in the breached unit, the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.
WIKILEAKS RELEASES 'ENTIRE HACKING CAPACITY' OF CIA
The contractor told Fox News that CCI has long maintained an internal database of information -- accessible to anyone with proper credentials or security clearance -- that seemed to be dumped in total to WikiLeaks. In its news release on the disclosure, WikiLeaks said CCI had more than 5,000 registered users, a number alternatively referred to as “absurd” and “a bit high” by security experts who spoke to Fox News.
The FBI was currently preparing for a mole hunt, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, though it was unclear if the CIA had officially reported the leak to the Justice Department. The CIA declined comment to Fox News.
When the FBI does start its likely probe, however, experts said there’s a typical incident response playbook they would use to narrow down the massive pool of suspects.
“They’re going to try to do some forensic work because those documents probably have been changed [over time], so that enables them to narrow down the period to when they were taken,” said Alex Yampolskiy, the CEO of SecurityScorecard. “Once you say ‘this seems like it was a snapshot from this particular time,’ then they can look at audit logs of who had access to the document during that time frame.”
Yampolskiy said analysts would likely target the most sensitive documents that were revealed during their forensic work, as only those with a higher security clearance would have had access to them – again, shrinking the group of suspects.
Once a core group is established, investigators would institute behavioral profiling.
“They’ll run certain types of analytics – what websites did they access? What are the emails? How many people are still working there?” Yampolskiy said.
Regardless of the results of the inquiry, Brian Vecci, a technological evangelist for cybersecurity company Veronis, said the secret trove revealed by WikiLeaks illustrates the pervasive issue of another “major data breach of a major government organization tasked with security.”
“What’s clear to me -- and this is true of pretty much every big data breach -- the preventive controls were broken, or the detective controls were broken,” Vecci said. “Meaning, either too many people had access to the information, or the people that had access weren’t being recorded and analyzed. Or both.”
Last year SecurityScorecard ranked 18 industries by their cybersecurity performance. Information services, construction and food ranked 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Government was dead last.
But there was a twist, Yampolskiy said.
“The CIA was specifically one of the top performers in the government,” he said. “An ‘A’ letter grade.”
Fox News’ James Rosen contributed to this report.
WikiLeaks’ reveal of CIA hacking trove has feds on mole hunt
By Cody Derespina
Published March 08, 2017
FoxNews.com
Manning. Snowden. Whose name is next to be added to the notorious list of government leakers?
The CIA is trying to answer that question right now.
A day after WikiLeaks released what it alleged to be the “entire hacking capacity of the CIA,” the focus Wednesday began shifting to just who gave the stunning surveillance information to the anti-secrecy website.
“There is heavy s--- coming down,” said a veteran cyber contractor for the intelligence community who previously worked in the breached unit, the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.
WIKILEAKS RELEASES 'ENTIRE HACKING CAPACITY' OF CIA
The contractor told Fox News that CCI has long maintained an internal database of information -- accessible to anyone with proper credentials or security clearance -- that seemed to be dumped in total to WikiLeaks. In its news release on the disclosure, WikiLeaks said CCI had more than 5,000 registered users, a number alternatively referred to as “absurd” and “a bit high” by security experts who spoke to Fox News.
The FBI was currently preparing for a mole hunt, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, though it was unclear if the CIA had officially reported the leak to the Justice Department. The CIA declined comment to Fox News.
When the FBI does start its likely probe, however, experts said there’s a typical incident response playbook they would use to narrow down the massive pool of suspects.
“They’re going to try to do some forensic work because those documents probably have been changed [over time], so that enables them to narrow down the period to when they were taken,” said Alex Yampolskiy, the CEO of SecurityScorecard. “Once you say ‘this seems like it was a snapshot from this particular time,’ then they can look at audit logs of who had access to the document during that time frame.”
Yampolskiy said analysts would likely target the most sensitive documents that were revealed during their forensic work, as only those with a higher security clearance would have had access to them – again, shrinking the group of suspects.
Once a core group is established, investigators would institute behavioral profiling.
“They’ll run certain types of analytics – what websites did they access? What are the emails? How many people are still working there?” Yampolskiy said.
Regardless of the results of the inquiry, Brian Vecci, a technological evangelist for cybersecurity company Veronis, said the secret trove revealed by WikiLeaks illustrates the pervasive issue of another “major data breach of a major government organization tasked with security.”
“What’s clear to me -- and this is true of pretty much every big data breach -- the preventive controls were broken, or the detective controls were broken,” Vecci said. “Meaning, either too many people had access to the information, or the people that had access weren’t being recorded and analyzed. Or both.”
Last year SecurityScorecard ranked 18 industries by their cybersecurity performance. Information services, construction and food ranked 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Government was dead last.
But there was a twist, Yampolskiy said.
“The CIA was specifically one of the top performers in the government,” he said. “An ‘A’ letter grade.”
Fox News’ James Rosen contributed to this report.
I wonder if there is a corresponding mole hunt for those who have leaked Trump's conversations with Mexico, Australia and elsewhere.
i love fake tears
he's the classic pompous ass character that goes down in any revenge situation
And all of the cameras and wifi connectivity that are coming out on cars now
I know I am in the minority by a long way, its probably because I worked for the Government for over 20 years and have had access to very highly classified material, but, I am more upset at Wikileaks than I am the CIA. We will never know if this stuff is legit or not, but there are reason we have secrets and need to protect them........
Yeah, screw all the reasons for exposing a police state.
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