Thread: Trump administration hits Iranian hacker network with sanctions, indictments

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Interestingly, I have no recollection of having endured any cybersecurity "violations", visited upon me, by either Iran, North Korea, Russia or China. Then again, I only know, what I've actually experienced, eh ?........

You only know what you see.

^I thought we all just blamed Microsoft Windows 10, and rebuilt our PC's.

Originally Posted by OhOh

^I thought we all just blamed Microsoft Windows 10, and rebuilt our PC's.

Now there's a thought. Thanks, OhOh. I'll check with Bill, on the next round of golf, re: what's next on the drawing board? Cheers!

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Of course,............as such, you're absolutely right, as usual, sir!

I get the impression a fucking ten year old could probably hack your PC and you wouldn't know it.

sanctions for hacking networks ?? =

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I get the impression a fucking ten year old could probably hack your PC and you wouldn't know it.

ol' harry getting all frothy

Originally Posted by Neo

sanctions for hacking networks ?? =

Remember they've got Stuxnet now.

Originally Posted by Neo

ol' harry getting all frothy

Silly boy. Frothy is when you run around calling people names because they've made you look foolish - again.

For context....

After fleeing to Hong Kong, Edward Snowden told the South China Morning Post that the NSA had led more than 61,000 hacking operations worldwide, including many in Hong Kong and mainland China.

He said targets in Hong Kong included the Chinese University, public officials and businesses.

"We hack network backbones - like huge internet routers, basically - that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," Mr Snowden was quoted as saying.
EU offices 'bugged'

Claims emerged on 29 June that the NSA had also spied on European Union offices in the US and Europe,

.....leaked NSA documents showing that the US had spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the 27-member bloc's UN office in New York.

The paper added that it had been shown the "top secret" files by Edward Snowden.

One document dated September 2010 explicitly named the EU representation at the UN as a "location target", Der Spiegel wrote.

The files allegedly suggested that the NSA had also conducted an electronic eavesdropping operation in a building in Brussels, where the EU Council of Ministers and the European Council were located.

It is not known what information US spies might have obtained. But observers say details of European positions on trade and military matters could be useful to those involved in US-EU negotiations.
Merkel phone calls 'intercepted'

The German government summoned the US ambassador on 24 October - a very unusual step - after German media reported that the NSA had eavesdropped on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.

The allegations dominated an EU summit, with Mrs Merkel demanding a full explanation and warning that trust between allies could be undermined. She discussed the matter by phone with US President Barack Obama. He assured her that her calls were not being monitored now and that it would not happen in future. But the White House did not deny bugging her phone in the past.

...experts think the NSA has hardware level backdoors built into Intel and AMD processors. Steve Blank, recognised as one of Silicon Valleys leading experts, says that he would be extremely surprised if the American NSA does not have backdoors built into Intel and AMD chips. His reason is that the NSA finds “hacking” through backdoors significantly more simple than trying to crack encryption. For example trying to crack AES 256 bit encryption would require the power of 10 million suns to crack at the current TDP of processors. Steve Blank therefore claims that because cracking encryption is so infeasible the NSA uses hardware level backdoors instead. Steve Blank said that these suspicions arose when he saw the NSA could access Microsoft emails in their pre-encryption state and so he knew there was another way in.

The revelation also supports concerns raised by several US senators during the renewal of the Fisa Amendments Act in December 2012, who warned about the scale of surveillance the law might enable, and shortcomings in the safeguards it introduces.

When the FAA was first enacted, defenders of the statute argued that a significant check on abuse would be the NSA's inability to obtain electronic communications without the consent of the telecom and internet companies that control the data. But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers.

A chart prepared by the NSA, contained within the top-secret document obtained by the Guardian, underscores the breadth of the data it is able to obtain: email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP (Skype, for example) chats, file transfers, social networking details, and more.

The National Security Agency director, Mike Rogers, on Monday sought to calm a chorus of doubts about the government’s plans to maintain built-in access to data held by US technology companies, saying such “backdoors” would not be harmful to privacy, would not fatally compromise encryption and would not ruin international markets for US technology products.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Typical of US governments - do as we say, not as we do.

Indeed.
It's usually neglected to include the U.S. [the good guys] and their associated allies as primary instigators and originators, per this subject matter.
Always them - the invented boogieman - not the beloved Anglo/American empire that sheds evil and problems upon the world.

The louder and most often these things are repeated, over and again, the more the fantasies can be justified.


Speaking of int'l covert hacking and cybersecurity issues - what has become of the clandestine Anonymous Group?
Declaring to subvert [here and there] the manipulating and suppressive establishments worldwide years back - occasionally noted and hearing from them, yet nothing substantial. All talk of a twisted rhetorical manner?

I'm of the suspicious cynical circle that believe the Anonymous folks were nothing short of distraction, false flag, wag the dog scenarios own and operated by THEM in their attempts to be clever with their side-show.

To date, the mysterious Anonymous faction has seemed to be more of an apologist/defender of those in which they originally had deep issues with and promoted payback towards.

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Ha! Here's another news flash, especiallyfor the "know-it all" posters to the forum. Fyi ~ TB is one U.S. (multinik) citizen, who's much too busy w/ minding his own business,..........to care.

Thus, if any entity considers TB_to be important enough, for them to waste their valuable time and resources, w/ hacking his PC, then TB says: "have @ it", and thanks, for the complimenting recognition. Capisce?


P.S. ~ Harrybarracuda, sir!....... Eye sincerely extend (especially to likes of you), my heartiest sympathy. So,...have a nice person's day, sir,.........for a change. Ok? Cheers!

Have you got Tourettes or is it just epilepsy?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Have you got Tourettes or is it just epilepsy?

Not afflicted w/ Epilepsy, for sure. However, the jury has yet to return a verdict, re: the Tourettes syndrome?

However, I thank you, just the same sir, for caring enough to ask. Cheerio!