CIA: Senate briefed in September on Russian efforts to deliver a Trump victory

[Berkut]

 You so mad! You rage and scream. LOLZ.

[The Minsky Moment]

Just tears.  Tears of exhaustion.  Very tiring keeping up with the serial incompetence and blunders of this self-satirizing excuse of a presidential transition. 

[The Brain]

Things will soon settle down.

[Eddie Teach]

One hopes.

[CountDeMoney]

Minsky's tears will dry real fast during the rapid succession of about, oh 16 or so 600kt detonations over midtown Manhattan during the Bigly Bargain Chip Crisis of 2019.

[The Minsky Moment]

Yeah but it will be worth it if next Olympics they announce the national team from "Taiwan" instead of "Chinese Taipei".  That's a cause worth dying for, right there.

[derspiess]

Wow, so the breach was caused by Podesta responding to a phishing email?   Dumbass.

[Ed Anger]

Wow, so the breach was caused by Podesta responding to a phishing email?   Dumbass.

Old people. 

[CountDeMoney]

Wow, so the breach was caused by Podesta responding to a phishing email?   Dumbass.

By far, still the easiest, most efficient way to hack.  Oooh, a holiday eCard!

[Ed Anger]

Wow, so the breach was caused by Podesta responding to a phishing email?   Dumbass.

By far, still the easiest, most efficient way to hack.  Oooh, a holiday eCard!

MY AUNT IS TRYING TO HAXX0R MY COMPUTER!

[DGuller]

I've read that a security guy tried to warn him by writing that the e-mail was illegitimate, but accidentally misspelled it as legitimate.

It boggles the mind how many things all had to come together to bring us this catastrophe.  Not to say that there wasn't plenty of incompetence by many parties that opened us up to it, but we could have still gotten away with it if it's wasn't for catastrophically bad luck.

[Ed Anger]

"We" comrade? I KNEW IT. DG IS IN ON IT! GRAB HIM!

[11B4V]

[CountDeMoney]

Good grief.

Politics
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.

By ERIC LIPTON, DAVID E. SANGER and SCOTT SHANE
DEC. 13, 2016

WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.

His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named "the Dukes," a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.

The F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the government's best-protected networks.

Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for "the Dukes" and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn't certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.

"I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call," Mr. Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The New York Times, that detailed his contact with the F.B.I.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html

[derspiess]

I like good deals on printer ink, but hell.