FBI hacks Microsoft with Texas court approval

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/serv.../upcoming.aspx

It would have only been a seven day ban, but I went over the top with the rudeness and image violations. I had to serve a three month sentence.

Points accumulated for the impudence;- and the image of the dumpster fire posing with the orphan child and family got me a stiff ruling.

Was it worth it? I think so. So . . . where is our good 'ol Nazi buddy?

Oh, sorry. Was that rude? Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

you're missing andymarksman? that nazi???

Minutes before Trump departed office, a mysterious Florida company reportedly took over a slice of the Pentagon's internet space


https://www.businessinsider.com/flor...ump-2021-4?amp

On Twitter on Saturday, the AP posted: "What a Pentagon spokesman could not explain is why the Defense Department chose Global Resource Systems LLC, a company that seems not to have existed until September, to manage the address space."

A Saturday blog post from Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a networking information provider, detailed the "great mystery."

On inauguration day, at 16:57 UTC, or 11:57am in Washington, a message was posted by an "entity that hadn't been heard from in over a decade," Madory wrote.

Russians?

china backed

Opinion: The FBI just got permission to break into private computers without consent so it can fight hackers


https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/stor...rs-11619449844


https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R46536.pdf

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generally makes it illegal to access a computer without authorization. This law, though, does not apply to the government.


Important legal issues remain unresolved with the FBI’s current operation. One is the question of liability. What if, for example, the privately owned computers were damaged in the FBI’s process of removing the malicious code? Another issue is how to balance private property rights against national security needs in cases like this. What is clear, though, is that under this authority the FBI could hack into computers at will, and without the need for a specific search warrant.

Opinion: The FBI just got permission to break into private computers without consent so it can fight hackers Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

Yeah, you don't want me in on that subject. I'll be here all week ranting about cybersecurity practices and government overreach.

Let's just say you should be keeping the VPN on at all times, and not using companies that operate out of 14Eyes countries.

Yeah, you don't want me in on that subject. I'll be here all week ranting about cybersecurity practices and government overreach. Originally Posted by GastonGlock

This is the place to rant. Like your piece I just read on the "election fraud".

Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company


https://arstechnica.com/information-...company/?amp=1

The Defense Department says it still owns the addresses but that it is using a third-party company in a "pilot" project to conduct security research.

It isn't clear why the Defense Department didn't simply announce the address space itself instead of using an obscure outside entity, and it's unclear why the project came "to life in the final moments of the previous administration," he wrote.

But something good might come out of it, Madory added: "We likely won't get all of the answers anytime soon, but we can certainly hope that the DoD uses the threat intel gleaned from the large amounts of background traffic for the benefit of everyone. Maybe they could come to a NANOG conference and present about the troves of erroneous traffic being sent their way."

Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56898711.amp

On Monday, Washington DC's police department said in a statement that it was "aware of unauthorised access on our server", AP news agency reported.

"While we determine the full impact and continue to review activity, we have engaged the FBI to fully investigate this matter," the statement added, without providing further details of the reported breach.

It is not clear if attackers managed to lock police out of their systems during the breach.

there watching Originally Posted by rexdutchman

where watching

where watching Originally Posted by matchingmole

Here watching.

Cybersecurity experts think the anonymity of a small Florida company managing a huge chunk of the internet could be part of the Pentagon's plan — and masking a bigger company


https://www.businessinsider.com/pent...rts-2021-4?amp

A Google spokesperson did not respond to a request to questions about whether the company had any ties to Global Resource Systems.

In contrast, founder of cyber analytics company ExtraHop, Jesse Rothstein, told Insider that Global Resource Systems could still be building up its system and would not necessarily need tremendous telecomputing power for the formerly dormant addresses, though it would still need to have significant financial resources.

Despite the layer of confusion behind the Pentagon's decision, most cybersecurity experts agree that the move to put the dormant addresses to use makes sense.

This makes me wonder if the two are related. The FBI hacking the hackers. Then the hackers hacking America's chemical dependence communication systems.



Cyber attack shuts down U.S. fuel pipeline ‘jugular,’ Biden briefed


https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ck-2021-05-08/

The American Petroleum Institute, a top oil industry trade group, said it was monitoring the situation.

Ben Sasse, a Republican senator from Nebraska and a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the cyberattack was a wakeup call for U.S. lawmakers.

"This is a play that will be run again, and we're not adequately prepared," he said, adding Congress should pass an infrastructure plan that hardens sectors against these attacks.

Colonial previously shut down its gasoline and distillate lines during Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2017. That contributed to tight supplies and gasoline price rises in the United States after the hurricane forced many Gulf refineries to shut down.