{"id":22495,"date":"2017-01-13T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22495"},"modified":"2017-01-13T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:09:11","slug":"did-the-russians-really-hack-the-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22495","title":{"rendered":"Did the Russians Really Hack the DNC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/01\/13\/did-the-russians-really-hack-the-dnc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Did the Russians Really Hack the DNC?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_88452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88452\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/4994519871_389f291836_z.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/4994519871_389f291836_z.jpg 510x, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/11\/4994519871_389f291836_z-300x191.jpg 300x\" alt=\"Photo by Cliff | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"325\" \/>Photo by Cliff |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Russia, we are told, breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), swiped emails and other documents, and released them to the public, to alter the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>How substantial is the evidence backing these assertions?<\/p>\n<p>Hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate unusual network activity, the security firm Crowdstrike discovered two separate intrusions on DNC servers. Crowdstrike named the two intruders Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, in an allusion to what it felt were Russian sources. According to Crowdstrike, \u201cTheir tradecraft is superb, operational security second to none,\u201d and \u201cboth groups were constantly going back into the environment\u201d to change code and methods and switch command and control channels.<\/p>\n<p>On what basis did Crowdstrike attribute these breaches to Russian intelligence services? The security firm claims that the techniques used were similar to those deployed in past security hacking operations that have been attributed to the same actors, while the profile of previous victims \u201cclosely mirrors the strategic interests of the Russian government. \u00a0Furthermore, it appeared that the intruders were unaware of each other\u2019s presence in the DNC system. \u201cWhile you would virtually never see Western intelligence agencies going after the same target without de-confliction for fear of compromising each other\u2019s operations,\u201d Crowdstrike reports, \u201cin Russia this is not an uncommon scenario.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/01\/13\/did-the-russians-really-hack-the-dnc\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those may be indicators of Russian government culpability. But then again, perhaps not. Regarding the point about separate intruders, each operating independently of the other, that would seem to more likely indicate that the sources have nothing in common.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the Russians Really Hack the DNC? Photo by Cliff |\u00a0CC BY 2.0 Russia, we are told, breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), swiped emails and other documents, and released them to the public, to alter the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. How substantial is the evidence backing these assertions? Hired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14680,14679,14677,2148,694,14678],"class_list":["post-22495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crowdstrike","tag-dnc","tag-gregory-elich","tag-hacking","tag-russia","tag-russian-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22496,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}