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Imagine going to war over a cyber attack.

Wtf?

Imagine going to war over a cyber attack.

Wtf? Originally Posted by Strokey_McDingDong

I imagine if the US responds, it will be with sanctions, and, maybe, retaliatory cyber attacks.

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I imagine if the US responds, it will be with sanctions, and, maybe, retaliatory cyber attacks. Originally Posted by pfunkdenver

I agree. However, I would continue to investigate to see just how deep this attack went and Whether the Reich knew the operation was live.

Fucking clown in the White House thinks he just has to turn his phone off and on again and The inter webs will come back good as new.

The thought of being everybody’s bitch in terms of cyber warfare/defense, is repulsive. It’s like losing Olympic basketball.

We make this shit. We should have the best hardware and software in the world and be the best in the world at using it.


But Russians?

Just nuck them

Big T gots this!

There's private sector techies that would jump in if the feds or dod invited them and waived the play nice rules.

Indeed. But have they?

Has Trump done ANYTHING to thwart Russian aggression in cyberspace?

Again. He thinks the internet is where his phone’s magic powers come from.

The fucker isn’t just an arrogant narcissist, but dumb as a fucking toadstool.

Why are you ostriches so shoulders deep in the sand on this one?

Is it that you fear tanks and ships more than software and chips? Think like dinosaurs and wind up sharing their fate.

As usual - yr and DPST's ignore Biden crime family selling out to Comrade Xi - Yet the Russia conspiracy still lives in the faithful to the DPST LSM propaganda machine of the DNC and Comrade Xi!.

Learn to think independently, DPST's!!!

As usual - yr and DPST's ignore Biden crime family selling out to Comrade Xi - Yet the Russia conspiracy still lives in the faithful to the DPST LSM propaganda machine of the DNC and Comrade Xi!.

Learn to think independently, DPST's!!! Originally Posted by oeb11

As usual, our reigning DOTY refuses to address the topic of the thread.

Deflect. Deny. Dodge. Duck. Duplicate.

5 Ds of DOTY-ery.

Why not post something cogent and constructive? Like answering my challenges to your banal post. You aren’t even trying, good sir.

Or... just keep melting down like a loyal littleTrumpist.

From what I can tell, there was some kind of vaguely defined cyber attack and they are presuming it came from Russia ...

Is there more information on this? It doesn't really make any sense to me. So, there was a massive cyber attack but I can't seem to find much information about it.

H I M was watching too much porn LOL.

Idk. Wtf is a massive cyber attack? I'm not really getting it. How can a cyber attack infiltrate the entire government and fortune 500 companies, and what does a cyber attack do?

From what I can tell, there was some kind of vaguely defined cyber attack and they are presuming it came from Russia ...

Is there more information on this? It doesn't really make any sense to me. So, there was a massive cyber attack but I can't seem to find much information about it.

H I M was watching too much porn LOL.

Idk. Wtf is a massive cyber attack? I'm not really getting it. How can a cyber attack infiltrate the entire government and fortune 500 companies, and what does a cyber attack do? Originally Posted by Strokey_McDingDong

Seems like you're behind the curve on this news cycle Strokey McLegalEagle


This presser was so damning that Trump lost his shit again!


From Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, and the biggest Trump loyalist still standing upright.


https://www.npr.org/2020/12/19/94831...ds-cyberattack


Pompeo Says Russia 'Pretty Clearly' Behind Cyberattack, Prompting Pushback From Trump

Colin Dwyer Twitter
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen here during a conference earlier this month in Atlanta, told the Mark Levin Show that Russia was "pretty clearly" behind a massive hack that breached multiple government agencies.
Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images


Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET

Since news of the SolarWinds hack surfaced nearly a week ago, high-ranking Trump administration officials had remained largely silent about the cyberattack that involved at least half a dozen federal agencies. On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke that silence, becoming the most prominent administration official to blame Russia for the attack.
"This was a very significant effort," Pompeo told the The Mark Levin Show, "and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity."


"We're still unpacking precisely what it is, and I'm sure some of it will remain classified," Pompeo said. "But suffice it to say, there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems and, it now appears, the systems of private companies and governments across the world, as well."


Pompeo's comments represented the farthest the Trump administration has been willing to go so far in publicly attributing the hack to Russia.


President Trump, who went nearly a week without mentioning the suspected attack, appeared to suggest Saturday that Russia may not be the culprit.He tweeted that the attack is "far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality."

"I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of ... discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!)," Trump said.


And he repeated his baseless assertion that electoral fraud cost him the presidential election — a claim that he has not backed up with evidence, and that multiple members of his own administration have outright dismissed.




SolarWinds, the IT company whose product was targeted in the hack, said that nearly 18,000 of its customers received a software update tainted with malware, beginning in March. The malicious code operated as a kind of Trojan horse, enabling hackers to stealthily access the systems of the affected agencies and companies.


The cyberattack operated undetected for months and reportedly hit multiple government agencies, including the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security.


The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday acknowledged that the hack "poses a grave risk" to federal, state and local governments across the country — but refrained from directly attributing blame.


Unlike Trump, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have made it clear that they believe the Kremlin is behind what they are calling a "significant, sophisticated, and ongoing cybersecurity intrusion."


Russia, for its part, has denied playing a role in the operation.


In a joint statement on Thursday, the two highest-ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the attack "has the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation." In their statement, Sens. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., called upon the U.S. government to "do everything possible to counter it" — something several other lawmakers have criticized the Trump administration for not doing.


"An incident of this magnitude and lasting impact requires an engaged and public response by the U.S. government, led by a President who understands the significance of this intrusion and who is actively marshaling a domestic remediation strategy and an international response," Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice-chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement released Friday.



"It is extremely troubling that the President does not appear to be acknowledging, much less acting upon, the gravity of this situation," he added.



The criticism has come not just from Democrats, but from members of Trump's own party, as well. One day before Warner's statement, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah also called out what he called "inexcusable silence and inaction from the White House."


"The cyber hack," he said, "is like Russian bombers have been repeatedly flying undetected over our entire country."


Asked about the criticism, Pompeo suggested that Trump had maintained his silence so as not to interfere with investigations into the incident.


"I saw this in my time running the world's premier espionage service at the CIA. There are many things that you you'd very much love to say, 'Well, I'm going to call that out,' " the secretary of state said. "But a wiser course of action to protect the American people is to calmly go about your business and defend freedom."

They infiltrated and took control of systems if I understand correctly. Trump says it’s no big deal and he can’t see why Russia would do this. He did claim it could be China. And that Dominion machines were hacked. Pompeo said it’s Russia, but what would he know.

So, I am hearing a lot that this hack is extremely dangerous and we should all be very scared, but I still don't understand what exactly we should be worrying about. Are the hackers going to detonate our nuclear bombs? Are they going crash the stock market? It's very vague and I'm not sure why all media outlets are not adequately explaining what is actually going on.

So far one reporter mentioned that the hackers will send spam emails and change numbers in important data, which is pretty vague and still doesn't express the breadth of this cyber attack.