How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

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Source: cnn





How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

By Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN

Updated 5:55 PM ET, Tue April 7, 2015

Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.

While the White House has said the breach only ever affected an unclassified system, that description belies the seriousness of the intrusion. The hackers had access to sensitive information such as real-time non-public details of the president's schedule. While such information is not classified, it is still highly sensitive and prized by foreign intelligence agencies, U.S. officials say.

The White House in October said it noticed suspicious activity in the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. The system has been shut down periodically to allow for security upgrades.

The FBI, Secret Service and U.S. intelligence agencies are all involved in investigating the breach, which they consider among the most sophisticated attacks ever launched against U.S. government systems. ​The intrusion was routed through computers around the world, as hackers often do to hide their tracks, but investigators found tell-tale codes and other markers that they believe point to hackers working for the Russian government. A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment. Neither the U.S. State Department or the Russian immediately embassy responded to a request for comment....................

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Fucking PUTIN? That disgusting fucking cockroach...He is jonesing for a war where

he can do what W did, play army with his army.

W invaded Iraq AFTER he was told there was no WMD, that his intel source, "curveball" was lying, but he invaded anyway for political reasons AND because he wanted to watch a war on TV.

He wanted to PLAY war.

Therefore, the LAST thing we need when dealing with the Russian version of that little sadistic murdering fuck, is a conservative teaparty moron in the WH.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC

or suffer the consequences

[DeSwiss]

3. That's what Hils would do.

- Ain't it?

[Earth_First]

2. Just another day in the high stakes game of government surveillance... nt

[DeSwiss]

4. This is rich.

- The ''Shadow-USA'' has had it's tentacles up into everybody's business for decades, and they want to scream now!?!?! WTF!?!?! I wouldn't doubt that the NSA has Putin's cellphone bugged like they had Merkle's.

Don't be an idiot and fall for the warmonger's pitch, again.

[Glassunion]

5. I'm sure the hack was easy given Whitehouse security lately.

[Cryptoad]

6. ummmm

In all those Files of which he didn't know what was in them,,,,,Comrade Snowden, could well be all kinds of configs and decryption data.......

[imthevicar]

7. This 3 min of hate is All apart

Of Demonizing the Competition. Through the Hegelian Dialectic! Problem-Reaction Solution. Create a Problem, Control the reaction, (Crikies that was easy to get done in this group of Putin Haters.) Then Present the solution to the Problem they Created. IOW, SUCKERS!