White House hacked (Russia involved?)

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White House hacked (Russia involved?) : http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/10/29/white-house-computer-hacks-russia/18104231/

The White House is confirming cyber attacks on unclassified computer networks, and people are pointing the finger of suspicion at Russia.
"The White House has detected some activity of concern on the White House network," said spokesman Josh Earnest, and is seeking to learn the source of hack attacks.

While security firms have accused Russia of involvement in similar attacks, Earnest said it would be "unwise" for him to speculate on culprits because an investigation is ongoing.
There is no evidence that hackers breached classified files, administration officials said.
"Our computers and systems have not been damaged, though some elements of the unclassified network have been affected," the White House said. "The temporary outages and loss of connectivity for our users is solely the result of measures we have taken to defend our networks."
At least one suspect is being discussed in the public domain.
From The Washington Post: "Recent reports by security firms have identified cyber-espionage campaigns by Russian hackers thought to be working for the government. Targets have included NATO, the Ukrainian government and U.S. defense contractors. Russia is regarded by U.S. officials as being in the top tier of states with cyber-capabilities."
In recent weeks, White House officials have said that computer systems have been down, and e-mail has been slow. On Oct. 19, the White House e-mailed one statement through an alternate route, saying it was "due to system delays."
Earnest said the situation has ted some "inconveniences," but did not affect the work of the White House staff.
Information analysts said they were not surprised by the hack attack on the White House, and warned that all governments need to be on guard.
"Foreign government-sponsored hackers are a very real threat to public and private sector IT networks," said Gerry Grealish of the cloud security provider Perspecsys. "Today's cyber attacks are better funded, more aggressive and sophisticated, and can come from a myriad of external and internal sources."

 

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White House officials said the hackers did not damage any of the systems when they breached the unclassified network, and to date, there is no evidence that the classified network was hacked. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Read the comments on WashingtonPost.com : http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...df2fa0-5ef7-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html

Examples:

.. All emails coming from West Africa should be quarantined for 21 days in case they have viruses. ..

.. We're already at cyber war. Kapersky has a great realtime map of the attacks:
http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/

jfschumaker
6:00 PM GMT+0100
The day after FireEye reports that the Russian government is hacking computer systems worldwide, we find out that one of their targets is the White House unclassified system. Nothing is off limits: governments, banks, businesses, news organizations, anything where the Russians think they can steal something useful. Of course, the Chinese are even more prolific in their penetration attempts, just a little less adept. The ultimate problem with this sort of intensive hacking is that it might eventually lead to a fracturing of the Internet itself, with entire sections of the world being isolated from the rest of the Internet. This is already happening to a certain extent in Russia and China, where the Internet has been placed under increasing restrictions. Given the fact that Russia and China will never cooperate with efforts to stop state-sponsored hacking, it is probably only a matter of time before the West will have to put similar measures into effect. One would hope that the reason why such restrictions have not been enacted already is that the USG believes that it benefits more from an open Internet than its adversaries. Without any real evidence to show that this is so, however, one wonders if the USG isn't just suffering from its usual case of bureaucratic inertia. We take for granted our rather recently acquired ability to communicate with nearly anyone around the world instantaneously. But I remember a time, before the Internet and before personal computers, and definitely before iPhones and Androids, when it would take an hour or more to place a call from Moscow to the United States, due to the shortage of KGB operators. I wonder if we are on the verge of a step backwards toward such an era.

 

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These are 2 countries, that if full out nuclear war breaks out your all coming down with us.