Russian hacking

[Bridog7]

It's a fine example of fake news made up by the CIA and the Washington Post (who suck by the way because they mistreated and misinformed people about Bernie (Egart)) its something that only Hillary's campaign could've made up because they themselves used hacking to cheat Bernie out of the primaries by stealing his voter information and changing the party affiliation of Bernie voters in closed primary states (even forging people's signatures while doing it). They cheated their way to the nomination but couldn't cheat and beat the weakest possible opponent in all of American History. I hope they're proud of breaking this Glass Ceiling they call through means of cheating. And now they're using this Russian hacking fake news story as an excuse for their embarrassing defeat to Trump (McGuire).





We can't rule out if she would've lost to Ben Carson by the way. I mean he's an expert on Syria after all because he went there once

 

[Kyriakos]

You are looking for blaming others for your own negligence. It is well known that Yahoo was hacked at least twice since 2011 with hundreds of thousands of passwords compromised in the first breach, and millions in the second. There are sites such as haveibeenpwned.com that allow you to check whether your account has been compromised, and others that also make available all salted passwords. Its very easy to break those passwords that were weak by brute force, and depending on the site some can be easily decrypted. Your compromised account information has been published and available for anyone with an interest to see in the internet for years now. Anyone could have hacked your account this year, and you can be certain that whomever originally breached yahoo is long past exploiting that data. It's now being reused by petty criminals and fraudsters from all over the world.

I have observed there are indeed proportionally more hack attempts from eastern Europe (anything east of Germany/Austria, really). But you were not a victim of "russian hacking", or any other nationality hacking. You were a victim of your own negligence, criminals that may happen to be based in Russia, and perhaps Yahoo's failures in admitting breaches and properly informing people. I don't know how Yahoo dealt with those breaches, but I recall hearing one former US official who worked in these issues say bad things about Yahoo's handling of those incidents, namely a long delay in disclosing them.

Brute force is an issue, if the site can be made to allow the hacker to just try all variations (i suppose this isn't hard). Eg if you have a password with 8 digits, all of which are latin letters (let's say in english), it means all possible variations there are 26^8= 208827064576, which a program can easily do in a rather brief amount of time.
So i suppose the core anti-hacking mechanism is not in the pass (even if you have more digits including numbers or other characters), but in the server? But adding numbers would mean the hacker needs to actually seriously allocate time.

 

[uppi]

So i suppose the core anti-hacking mechanism is not in the pass (even if you have more digits including numbers or other characters), but in the server?

Both, actually. If the server does not properly secure your password, there is nothing you can do (and because of that you should never give an important password to a server you do not trust).
If the server has a reasonable secure way to store your password, but gets hacked, the security of the password determines whether the attacker gets your password or not. 8 lowercase latin letters is certainly too weak to withstand any serious attack.

 

[Samson]

And how to choose a strong password:

 

[red_elk]

Brute force is an issue, if the site can be made to allow the hacker to just try all variations (i suppose this isn't hard).

What uppi said.

If users data leaked from site, it usually contains usernames and password hashes. Bruteforce (in some cases) can be used to get passwords from hashes offline, without accessing site. Simple short passwords are more vulnerable.

 

[plarq]

And how to choose a strong password:

The historical reason for this kind of password is that the old machine has limited memories and computational resources. Buffers are scarce, and the password verification would not store very long passwords. In fact, for badly designed system, intentionally entering a long password would constitutes a buffer overflow attack.

 

[Vectors]

And how to choose a strong password:

And then ocl-Hashcat-plus version 0.15 came out in 2013

 

[Bootstoots]

About the actual Russian hacking report, people should flip through it. You can read it here.

It's a pretty shoddy effort. Most of it isn't even about the hacking of the DNC/Podesta emails, and around half of it is a bunch of whining about the existence of RT and to a lesser extent smaller sites like Sputniknews. Yes, RT exists and provides Russian government-slanted viewpoints. It also provides a bunch of content from all sorts of dissidents of the right and left, which is most of what I find it useful for. Its coverage was strongly biased against Hillary, unsurprisingly.

There's nothing nefarious about RT - it's just a news site funded by a foreign government. Of course it's going to biased towards its sponsors, much like Radio Free Europe, US-funded NGOs, etc. None of this is a secret. All news sources are propaganda of some sort or another, and you have to watch a bunch of different propaganda to come up with a reasonable approximation of the truth. Anyone who just reads the Washington Post and believes whatever it says is doing it wrong.

The thing that is striking to me is that US intelligence agencies and mainstream media are clearly alarmed about how they no longer have a monopoly on (dis)information - rather than people just believing whatever Dan Rather is saying and what's in Newsweek and the NYT, people are exposed to a whole lot of perspectives. Most of them just create their own bubbles, but the tools are nonetheless out there to find out about the bewildering spectrum of possible opinions, only a tiny sliver of which are ever covered in mainstream US news sources. I think that's a good thing on balance, despite all the Alex Joneses and Breitbarts, but it definitely scares the people who used to control the entire national dialogue.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

...but it definitely scares the people who used to control the entire national dialogue.

This seems to me hold a lot of truth and the fact of it is really the scariest thing I can think of. "People who want to control the nation and its resources (and not just any dialogue)" inspite of democracy are an enemies of democracy and depending on the degree of their ambition enemies of humanity as well - its happenning and its real...

 

[red_elk]

About the actual Russian hacking report, people should flip through it. You can read it here.

It's a pretty shoddy effort.

There are rumors that Russian hackers might modify the report before it was published.

 

[dusters]

Russian hackers once hacked my smart toaster and now it only makes toast with a Gorbatchev stain like burn mark on each piece of toast.

Honestly though, hackers hail from all corners of the world. But not all of them are on the payroll of national governments.

You really made me Lol. TY!!!

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, his stain looks like part of the US, with Florida and stuff around it.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

This is me who hacked you. I am proud of it. Get over it, loser!

A few more hacks and my dearest president comrade Putin will reward me personally!

Btw, I already posted all your nude photos online. I am tolerant towards Russian-speaking gay communities, you know...

 

[Kozmos]

Don't use words that exist in recorded digital forms. Not even if they are from some obscure fiction book.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Urh Not sure if Russian wants to overthrow current Liberal German government for a Right wing nationalist government
What could possibly go wrong ?

Germany investigating unprecedented spread of fake news online
Government focus on false reporting comes amid claims that Russia is trying to influence German election later this year

German government officials have said they are investigating an unprecedented proliferation of fake news items amid reports of Russian efforts to influence the country’s election later this year.

The BfV domestic intelligence agency confirmed that a cyber-attack last December against the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) used the same “attack infrastructure” as a 2015 hack of the German parliament attributed to Russian hacking group APT28.

Last month, BfV said it had seen an “enormous use of financial resources” and the deployment of a wide variety of Russian propaganda tools to carry out disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilising the German government.

German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said: “We take the incidents related to possible hacking attacks against the OSCE very seriously, and we also take other cases very seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ating-spread-fake-news-online-russia-election

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

says Merkel

I bet $10,000 on that Merkel will lose. Losers have their own distinctive rhetorics now.

 

[Agent327]

This is me who hacked you. I am proud of it. Get over it, loser!

A few more hacks and my dearest president comrade Putin will reward me personally!

More likely the Kremlin will deny all knowledge of hacks, and call the whole thing a witch hunt. Oh wait, they already did that...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Urh Not sure if Russian wants to overthrow current Liberal German government for a Right wing nationalist government
What could possibly go wrong ?

Well, I want to overthrow the government*, but the AfD is rumored to receive donations fro Russia, and those guys would be worse than Merkel.




*

Spoiler :

Lieber Verfassungsschutz, das war ein Scherz.

 

[red_elk]

Kirby just said the State Department has proofs of Russian hacking, but they won't be disclosed because they are secret.
I think we should ask Russian hackers to steal and publish those proofs.

 

[MRM]

I bet $10,000 on that Merkel will lose. Losers have their own distinctive rhetorics now.

I bet against you. That is easy money. She can form a coalition with the SPD ( as currently ), FDP and even the green Party is a potential coalition partner. Her party is in polls15% ahead of the second strongest party which is her current coalition partner. And if something happens that make the government look bad, the SPD is affected as well. So it is unfortunately highly unlikely that she won't be reelected.

Government focus on false reporting comes amid claims that Russia is trying to influence German election later this year

"Russia" seems to be the new "the dog ate my homework" excuse