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NYT: Obama WH Rushed to Preserve Russian Hacking Intel


waving flag disclaimerAuthored by NEWSMAX Wednesday, 01 Mar 2017 09:19 PM

URL of the original posting site: http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/hacking-intelligence-White-House-administration/2017/03/01/id/776413/

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White House officials scrambled in the final days of the Obama administration to spread information across the government about Russian meddling in the election — and possible contacts between Trump associates and Russians, The New York Times reported.

The effort was to thwart any future meddling, and to leave a “clear trail of intelligence for government investigators,” the Times reported.leading-propaganda-generator

According to the Times, the information included that from American allies, including the British and the Dutch, describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president Vladimir Putin – and Trump associates, the Times reported, citing three unnamed former American officials.

Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates, the Times reported.

According to the Times, some people in the Obama White House worried the intelligence could be covered up or destroyed — or its sources exposed — once power changed hands. The Times reported the push by intelligence agencies aimed to process as much raw intelligence as possible into analyses, and to keep the reports at a relatively low level of classification to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the government — and, in some cases, among European allies.

“This allowed the upload of as much intelligence as possible to Intellipedia, a secret wiki used by American intelligence analysts to share information,” the Times reported.words-of-a-leftist-propagandist

White House spokesman Sean Spicer responded, “The only new piece of information that has come to light is that political appointees in the Obama administration have sought to create a false narrative to make an excuse for their own defeat in the election.” “There continues to be no there, there.”

The FBI is conducting an investigation into Russia meddling in the election, and separately, the House and Senate intelligence committees are conducting their own probes.

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Trump after intel briefing: Hacking did not impact election outcome


waving flagAuthored By Katie Bo Williams – 01/06/17

URL of the original posting site: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313089-trump-after-briefing-hacking-did-not-impact-election-outcome

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Cyberattacks by foreign nations had “absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election,” President-elect Donald Trump said in a statement following a briefing by senior intelligence officials on their assessment that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

While Trump conceded that “Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee,” he stopped short of saying that he believes Russia was the perpetrator of the DNC breach — or that it was an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

“There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful,” Trump said in the statement.

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Trump called the meeting “constructive,” noting that he has “tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation.”

Trump’s reaction to the briefing has been hotly watched as a barometer for whether he will accept the overwhelming conclusion of the intelligence community that Moscow attempted to interfere in the 2016 election. Trump has repeatedly rejected that assessment, treating any such reports as an attack on the legitimacy of his victory. He called the furor over the hacks a “witch hunt” carried out by defeated Democrats in an interview with The New York Times on Friday morning.

He has been outspokenly critical of the intelligence community’s findings, tweeting, “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”

In a series of tweets this week, he accused intelligence officials of delaying the briefing until Friday in order to build a case against Russia — an allegation rejected by other officials. Trump also appeared to side with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who released stolen emails believed to have been hacked by Russia. Trump noted Assange’s assertions that the emails did not come from Russia, while claiming that anyone could have hacked the DNC.

Senior intelligence officials have said publicly that there is no way to judge the impact of the hacks on the final vote tally. Trump noted in his statement that there was no tampering with physical voting machines.

“They didn’t change any vote tallies,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers Thursday.

“We have no way of gauging the impact that — certainly the intelligence community can’t — the choices that the electorate made. There’s no way for us to gauge,” Clapper said.

Trump’s statement also called for the U.S. to do more to combat cyberattacks, saying that he will appoint a team to provide “a plan” within 90 days of his inauguration.

“The methods, tools and tactics we use to keep America safe should not be a public discussion that will benefit those who seek to do us harm,” he said.

The White House is imminently expected to release a declassified version of a recently completed intelligence report into Russian interference. President Obama received the full, classified version of the document Thursday and the so-called Gang of Eight in Congress reviewed it Friday. The public version could be released as soon as Friday afternoon.

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT? Iranians Charged with Cyber Attacks on U.S. Banks


waving flagPosted on March 24, 2016

URL of the original posting site: http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/caught-in-the-act-iranians-charged-with-cyber-attacks-on-u-s-banks

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ObamaIranian-Flag-WORD-ARTThese are the people we’ve made a deal with? Who scream ‘death to America’ and hack our banks. Wow.

Seven Iranian computer experts linked to the government in Tehran were charged Thursday with cyber attacks against American banks and a dam in New York.

The FBI released mug shots of the alleged hackers named in the indictment as the charges were announced at a news conference in Washington, D.C. They worked for private security companies that have performed work for the Iranian government, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, officials said. But U.S. officials stopped short of accusing Iranian authorities or intelligence of being behind the attacks.

FBI Director James Comey said the suspects may be out of reach while they are in Iran — but the indictments should have them looking over their shoulder if they travel. “The world is small and our memories are long,” Comey said. “We never say never.”yeah right

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Researchers Question Obama’s Claim That North Korea Hacked Sony


by Edwin Mora 27 Dec 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/12/27/researchers-question-obamas-claim-that-north-korea-hacked-sony/

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Evidence released by the Obama administration pointing to North Korea as the culprit behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is hardly conclusive,  a number of private security researchers told The New York Times.

Last week, both President Obama and the FBI accused North Korea of hacking Sony’s computer systems.

Obama said he would take action, pledging a “proportional response” a few hours before North Korea’s Internet went offline.

North Korea denies any involvement in the Sony hack, called Obama “a monkey” and accused the U.S. of shutting down its Internet.

Breitbart News reports that “computational linguists at Taia Global, a group of cyber security consultants, performed a linguistic analysis of online messages from the Guardians of Peace, and concluded that, based on translation errors and phrasing, the group is more likely Russian than Korean.”com01

The Obama administration alleges that the cyberattack against Sony was in retaliation for “The Interview,” a comedy film depicting a satirical plot to assassinate Kim Jong-Un, North Korea’s leader.

“Security researchers remain skeptical, with some even likening the government’s claims to those of the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war,” reports The New York Times.

The article adds:

“Fueling their suspicions is the fact that the government based its findings, in large part, on evidence that it will not release, citing the ‘need to protect sensitive sources and methods.’ The government has never publicly acknowledged doing so, but the National Security Agency has begun a major effort to penetrate North Korean computer networks.”com01

Security researchers suggest more proof is necessary to make a conclusive determination on who was behind the cyberattack.

“Essentially, we are being left in a position where we are expected to just take agency promises at face value,” Marc Rogers, a security researcher at CloudFlare, a top mobile security company, wrote in a Dec. 24 post for The Daily Beast. “In the current climate, that is a big ask.”

“Mr. Rogers, who doubles as the director of security operations for DefCon, an annual hacker convention, and others like Bruce Schneier, a prominent cryptographer and blogger, have been mining the meager evidence that has been publicly circulated, and argue that it is hardly conclusive,” notes the Times.

The article points out that some private security researchers do support the government’s claims.

“CrowdStrike, a California security firm that has been tracking the same group that attacked Sony since 2006, believes they are located in North Korea and have been hacking targets in South Korea for years,” reports the Times.New Cold War

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