Yup! The NSA Got Hacked

[friendly_iconoclast]

Source: The Atlantic

After a never-before-seen group announced it was in possession of a trove of malware developed by the elite hacking arm of the National Security Agency early this week, professional security researchers began working to try and determine whether the code the group released was truly developed by the NSA.

Working off of hints they found in the code, which was released by a group calling itself the “Shadow Broker,” researchers guessed it was authentic—but new documentation straight from the source appears to confirm the code’s provenance.

According to NSA documents obtained by Edward Snowden and reviewed by The Intercept, several elements in the released code line up with details in the agency’s own manuals and materials.

One manual, for example, instructs agents to use a specific 16-character string, “ace02468bdf13579,” to track a certain strain of government-developed malware as it makes its way through networks. That string shows up character-for-character in one of the leaked hacking tools, “SECONDDATE.”

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/yup-the-nsa-got-hacked/496643/

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Curiouser and curiouser...

[juxtaposed]

1. the hackers got hacked,,,, how ironic

[Warpy]

2. It's like the "Spy vs. Spy" in Mad Magazine 50 years ago

The new warfare will be Hacker vs Hacker. This isn't a bad thing. As long as they focus on each other, maybe they'll leave the rest of us alone.

[juxtaposed]

3. leave the rest of use alone!!! would be good. Spy vs spy was one of my favorites

[cstanleytech]

11. Doesnt sound like they got hacked rather someone who had access to the programs illegally leaked

them.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. "It’s still not clear how the tools leaked from the NSA."

Dumb headline.

[Coyotl]

9. Or if they did! Lame article with nothing but conjecture.

[DURHAM D]

5. They should have been using President Clinton's server. nt

[misterhighwasted]

13. + a million. SEE!!.Told ya!!!

Hillary was the smartest one of all.
They're prob going after her for the server issue because their goons could never hack into it. Spoiled their game is what she did. And they're pissed.

[neohippie]

6. I had read something about this

Where an NSA person had reportedly commented that the tools were indeed theirs but that the initial release to show proof that they had something was not a current set of tools but some older versions of their toolkit and he speculated that they were probably not able to hack the NSA but that these tools probably came from some persons mobile toolkit like a USB drive or laptop, however, he did say that they appeared to be authentic tools just not the most up to date versions.

There's a lot of speculation that this could be a real breach, or disinformation in an effort to find out what players attempt to get the tools, or just someone who sold the tools for whatever reason and so on. It's also interesting to note that he said the NSA was taking the release seriously reacting by trying to determine how the tools could have fallen into the hands of a third party group but of course you have to take all of these theories as to how or why this online auction came about with a grain of salt I suppose

In another story about the same subject there was speculation that Snowden may have released some of these tools in his Wikileaks exchange and that it was more likely that Wikileaks was hacked than the NSA, however all of that could be the NSA trying to diminish the likelihood of the appearance that they were indeed hacked, but hey in a world were smoke and mirrors is everything what can you believe?

[saidsimplesimon]

7. Thank you, friendly

Good to hear expert advise, I'm a DAR who dares to thank Edward Snowden.

Long ago, in a planet far, far away, I was trained on UNIX coding. Today, political speak is what I try to decode.

[Thinkingabout]

8. Misguided energy spent on stealing from others, if their time was well spent

We could have a better world, now we will spend more funds on building prisions.

[Blue_Tires]

10. All this really does is confirm Russian retribution

and consequently Russian involvement in the original DNC/DCCC theft as a result... The real question is do we up the stakes in our reprisal?

FWIW, the NSA didn't get "hacked", a company that does work with them did...

[randome]

12. Yup! The headline is false.

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