Photo: A lone file desk and a lone computer.
I found the photo to be as interesting as the story. A lone file desk and a lone computer. This time all was lost. All is lost.
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Missed signals and slow responses let Russia mount a hacking effort to influence the election. A NYT investigation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0
By ERIC LIPTON, DAVID E. SANGER and SCOTT SHANEDEC. 13, 2016
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A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.
The F.B.I. knew it well: ...............................
Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.
“I had no way of differentiating the call I....................................
It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history. What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump..................................
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