FBI warns states, says foreign hackers targeted election systems - one cyber breach so far
 
 
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The FBI issued a recent warning to state election officials to beef up their cybersecurity measures after foreign hackers broke into one state’s election system and targeted another.
 
The FBI confirmed to Fox News on Monday it issued a “flash” alert on Aug. 18, urging states to contact their Board of Elections if they suspect a breach.
 
In the flash alert from its cyber division, the FBI said it was investigating a pair of incidents and giving states specific signs to look out for to determine if their system had been hacked.
 
The FBI did not say which state was hacked or which one was targeted but says eight computers were involved.
 
Yahoo News, which first reported the story, identified the targeted states as Arizona and Illinois.
 
The FBI's Aug. 18 warning came after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson held a conference call with various state election officials to discuss cybersecurity issues.
 
 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/29/fbi-warns-states-says-foreign-hackers-targeted-election-systems.html (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/29/fbi-warns-states-says-foreign-hackers-targeted-election-systems.html)

Could this merely be an attempt to provide cover for actual hacking by the DNC aka FBI, IRS, etc.?

you think anything hooked to the internet is safe and secure?  reality shows it isn't. 

So you are claiming criminals can steal from everyone at anytime with no problem?

pretty much.  if your identity and personal information hasn't been stolen it's just because they haven't gotten around to you yet.

Then you are claiming Hackers have full access to all US Government documents and information!

Then ISIS knows our every move before we make it?

I don't know about ISIS but I'm sure most organized and advance countries with lots of resources like China, Russia, Israel, etc. know lots of stuff about the workings of our government and military. 

Right! (Sarcasm)

This is why the State Dept. does not allow home servers for government business....

Could this merely be an attempt to provide cover for actual hacking by the DNC aka FBI, IRS, etc.?

0bama INCORRECTLY accused the Russians of hacking into the DNC... and now 0bama's agencies are doing it again.

They have absolutely no proof it was the Russians.

they don't allow them anymore is what you mean.  up until recently there wasn't no prohibition on them was there?

here you go xyz -

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.

“It doesn’t strain credulity to look to the Russians,” says Morgan Marquis-Boire, a malware expert with CitizenLab. “This is not the first time that Russian hackers has been behind intrusions in US government, and it seems unlikely that it will be the last.” Last year Russian hackers were able to breach White House and State Department email servers, gleaning information even from President Obama’s Blackberry.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/heres-know-russia-dnc-hack/

vit, you base your fake sources on a gamer? Always knew you can't hack reality!


Chris Kohler. I have been writing professionally about videogames for 20 years. I am currently Games Editor at WIRED, for which I have written since ...

these aren't gamer companies xyz.  What are you blabbering about?


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.

And yet the Election Machines themselves are NOT hooked up to the internet.

Only the Sec of State Websites, which report the results are on servers.

Even though hackers might mess with THOSE sites,
the Sec of State can always change them back to the original info,
which would show who won and who lost.

Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval for her work as U.S. secretary of state, an internal government watchdog said on Wednesday.

The long-awaited report by the State Department inspector general was the first official audit of the controversial arrangement to be made public.

The report concluded that Clinton would not have been allowed to use the server in her home had she asked the department officials in charge of information security. The report said that staff who later raised concerns were told to keep quiet. Several suspected hacking attempts in 2011 were never reported to department information security officials, in breach of department rules, it said.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0YG21Z

The Security Consulting team here at Fidelis specializes in investigations of critical security incidents by advanced threat actors. Last week, after Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the intrusion into the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) servers, we were provided with the malware samples from the CrowdStrike investigation. We performed an independent review of the malware and other data (filenames, file sizes, IP addresses) in order to validate and provide our perspective on the reporting done by CrowdStrike.  This blog post provides a summary of our findings.

http://www.threatgeek.com/2016/06/dnc_update.html

Even though hackers might mess with THOSE sites,
the Sec of State can always change them back to the original info,
which would show who won and who lost!

How many Sec of States do we have that are democrats??????

Brian Varner, a security researcher at Symantec, said the electronic voting machine is another frontier for hackers.

Varner also cited multiple vulnerabilities in the way voter results are delivered. In one scenario, he described how a hacker could intercept the signals from an electronic voting machine connected to the Internet, similar to how hackers could intercept a user's data when he or she connects to WiFi at a coffee shop.

"We don't know what the transport network looks like between this machine and the actual database server that's aggregating the votes and then sending it up for live broadcast," he said.


http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/09/technology/voting-machine-hack-election/

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.

vit is showing his stupidity again!

Where does it say the Russians hacked Illinois and Arizona election data?  Where?   

you can't follow a thread can you xyz?

Wvit, you are a hypocrite!

The long-awaited report by the State Department inspector general was the first official audit of the controversial arrangement to be made public.

The report concluded that Clinton would not have been allowed to use the server in her home had she asked the department officials in charge of information security. The report said that staff who later raised concerns were told to keep quiet. Several suspected hacking attempts in 2011 were never reported to department information security officials, in breach of department rules, it said.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0YG21Z (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0YG21Z)

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found breaches in Illinois and Arizona's voter registration databases and is urging states to increase computer security ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, according to a U.S. official familiar with the probe.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that investigators were also seeking evidence of whether other states may have been targeted.

The FBI warning in an Aug. 18 flash alert from the agency's Cyber Division did not identify the intruders or the two states targeted.


vit would have us send troops and go to war with Russia... and there is no evidence, not even from the FBI that Russia is involved!

I didn't say that xyz.  All I've said was that nothing hooked up to the internet can be guaranteed secure.  I'm not sure where you got the war with Russia nuttiness.

Xyz and DVD are OBVIOUSLY insane...

Does vit really think it's OK to blame Russia for hacking us, even though the FBI doesn't have evidence....... and let Russia get away with controlling America's destiny?

no, it's not OK for the Russians to be hacking us.  But what are we going to do.  We can't whine too much about it since I'm sure we are doing the very same thing to them.

 Iranian hackers conducted a coordinated cyber attack on dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in lost business, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that for the first time accused individuals tied to another country of trying to disrupt critical infrastructure.



It said the seven accused were believed to have been working on behalf of Iran's government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Those named live in Iran and the Iranian government is not expected to extradite them.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-cyber-idUSKCN0WQ1JF

Wvit, you are a hypocrite!

lol you should see wvit in action on Topix~!

They know him for an idiot as well!

 
A secret NSA map obtained exclusively by NBC News shows the Chinese government (http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/22/17058583-exclusive-corporate-victims-of-chinese-hackers-speak-out)'s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the U.S economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as well as the U.S. government and military.


                                       The map uses red dots to mark more than 600 corporate, private or government "Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage" that were attacked over a five-year period, with clusters in America's industrial centers.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/exclusive-secret-nsa-map-shows-china-cyber-attacks-us-targets-n401211

Russia has ramped up cyber attacks against the United States to an unprecedented level since President Obama imposed sanctions last year on President Putin's government over its intervention in Ukraine.

The emboldened attacks are hitting the highest levels of the U.S. government, according to reports (http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/238127-white-house-state-dept-cyberattacks-linked), in what former officials call a “dramatic” shift in strategy.

The efforts are also targeting a wide array of U.S. businesses, pilfering intellectual property in an attempt to level the playing field for Russian industries hurt by sanctions.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/238518-russias-cyberattacks-grow-more-brazen



Even the Liberal New Republic (tm) has admitted that Mitt Romney (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116840/mitt-romney-and-russia-putin-and-ukraine) was right about the Russians and their ambitions.

And he was. Why did Barack Obama blow it? Let's revisit (http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-22-2012-the-third-obama-romney-presidential-debate) the final 2012 presidential debate, the moment Romney explained himself and the president went for the lulz.


Here's Obama.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/03/why_obama_got_russia_wrong_and_romney_got_it_right.html

Stuxnet


Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm believed to be a jointly built American-Israeli cyberweapon.  Although neither state has confirmed this openly, anonymous US officials speaking to The Washington Post claimed the worm was developed during the Bush administration to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program with what would seem like a long series of unfortunate accidents.

Stuxnet specifically targets programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which allow the automation of electromechanical processes such as those used to control machinery on factory assembly lines, amusement rides, or centrifuges for separating nuclear material. Exploiting four zero-day flaws, Stuxnet functions by targeting machines using the Microsoft Windows operating system and networks, then seeking out Siemens Step7 software. Stuxnet reportedly compromised Iranian PLCs, collecting information on industrial systems and causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Hack infects Russian government computers


Hackers struck the Russian government this weekend, reports said.

Following data breaches on the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic Party servers that sources blamed on the regime of Vladimir Putin, a computer virus infected the networks of at least 20 Russian governmental organizations, officials with the country’s intelligence service told the BBC Saturday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service did not say who they believe penetrated Russian networks but revealed the hack was “planned and made professionally” and also targeted defense companies and infrastructure, the report said.

Meanwhile, the US National Security Agency’s elite hacking unit is likely tracking Russian-government cyber-spies to determine if they are responsible for the breach at the Democratic National Committee, ABC News reported.

Federal intelligence officials said the NSA is able to “hack back” suspected organizations after an attack.

The Obama administration has not publicly attributed the cyber attacks to Russia, which has denied involvement.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/hack-infects-russian-government-computers/

Even the Liberal New Republic (tm) has admitted that Mitt Romney (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116840/mitt-romney-and-russia-putin-and-ukraine) was right about the Russians and their ambitions.

And he was. Why did Barack Obama blow it? Let's revisit (http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-22-2012-the-third-obama-romney-presidential-debate) the final 2012 presidential debate, the moment Romney explained himself and the president went for the lulz.


Here's Obama.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/03/why_obama_got_russia_wrong_and_romney_got_it_right.html (http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/03/why_obama_got_russia_wrong_and_romney_got_it_right.html)

what did he blow?  you never really say anything sweaty.   Haven't we been hurting the Russians with sanctions pretty much throughout the Obama administration?


International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis


Ukraine-/Russia-related Sanctions

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/ukraine.aspx

Sanctions are only as good as their effect!

Given Russia's seemingly limitless aggression, the sanctions are NOT effective!

Even the Liberal New Republic (tm) has admitted that Mitt Romney (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116840/mitt-romney-and-russia-putin-and-ukraine) was right about the Russians and their ambitions.

And he was. Why did Barack Obama blow it? Let's revisit (http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-22-2012-the-third-obama-romney-presidential-debate) the final 2012 presidential debate, the moment Romney explained himself and the president went for the lulz.


Links provided for wvit...  (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/rolleyes.gif)


Also for wvit:

Obama and his Lulz during the 2012 debate with Romney over Russia:

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=lulz+meaning&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003