Octopus Overlords

em2nought wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:34 pm

gbasden wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:26 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 2:02 pm I’ve been really busy this week, and have mostly ignored the derp-o-sphere.

Are we back to the “3 million illegal Mexican voters” thing again?

Of course. It fits right in with QAnon, Pizzagate and other right wing nutjob "theories".

#WalkAway

Microsoft has uncovered new hacking attempts by Russia targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections.

The company said Tuesday that a group tied to the Russian government created fake websites that appeared to spoof two American conservative organizations: the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute. Three other fake sites were designed to look as if they belonged to the U.S. Senate.

Microsoft didn’t offer any further description of the fake sites, and the Russian officials dismissed its claims as unfounded.
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Microsoft calls the hacking group Strontium; others call it Fancy Bear or APT28. An indictment from U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller has tied it to Russian’s main intelligence agency, known as the GRU, and to the 2016 email hacking of both the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
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Microsoft has waged a legal battle with Strontium since suing it in a Virginia federal court in summer 2016. The company obtained court approval last year allowing it to seize certain fake domains created by the group. It has so far used the courts to shut down 84 fake websites created by the group, including the most recent six announced Tuesday.

Microsoft has argued in court that by setting up fake but realistic-looking domains, the hackers were misusing Microsoft trademarks and services to hack into targeted computer networks, install malware and steal sensitive emails and other data.

Smith also announced Tuesday that the company is offering free cybersecurity protection to all U.S. political candidates, campaigns and other political organizations, at least so long as they’re already using Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity software. Facebook and Google have also promoted similar tools to combat campaign interference.

malchior wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:50 pm FBI arrests federal contractor named Reality Winner for leaking the May 5th report about election machine phishing campaign.

Reality Winner, 26, had faced up to 10 years in prison, but this was reduced to 63 months under a plea deal.
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Her sentence is reported to be the longest given for passing confidential material to a media outlet.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called out Russian President Vladimir Putin by name for interfering in the 2016 US election, calling it a "direct attack" on US democracy.

"At Vladimir Putin's direction, Moscow launched a brazen, multi-faceted influence campaign to undermine public faith in our democratic process and to distort our presidential election," Nielsen said at George Washington University in Washington. "Although no actual ballots were altered by this campaign, make no mistake: This was a direct attack on our democracy."

Nielsen continued that the administration "will not tolerate" such interference nor "let it happen again."

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:03 pm The 400-pound kid in the basement walks away free again.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:13 pmOf course, we don’t actually know that no ballots were changed.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has tentatively agreed to a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that will head off his upcoming trial, sources familiar with the negotiations tell ABC News.

The deal is expected to be announced in court Friday, but it remains unclear whether Manafort has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors or is simply conceding to a guilty plea, which would allow him to avoid the stress and expense of trial, according to three sources with knowledge of the discussions.

em2nought wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:15 am Surely the left leaning tech giants can come up with some "algorithms" to curtail the Ruskies? They've been honing their skills by blocking/hiding/banning/demonetizing actual American "conservatives", or anyone who says something they don't like.

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:38 am Too bad everyone on the right is so friggin' stupid that they can't build their own social media platforms

em2nought wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:06 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:38 am Too bad everyone on the right is so friggin' stupid that they can't build their own social media platforms

If it wasn't for all that leftist indoctrination during university... Maybe when you purge your tech giants of suspected conservatives, we'll find some talent.

I guess I should be happy that we at least have one media outlet, even though they're a bit soft.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:40 am No red blooded American says "during university"

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:07 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:40 am No red blooded American says "during university"

Lol, awesome.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:20 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:07 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:40 am No red blooded American says "during university"

Lol, awesome.

It's true, during university / at university are socialistic expressions. Ask any Canadian or European. IN AMERICA we go to college. We graduate from College. We we're done, we will have spent our time in college and earned our college degree and will have attended college. Our high school is for college prep. We label degrees Bachelor's and higher from a University (That and the toon degree). But that's it. Everything else, unless you are referring to University by name. College.

Round here, if you say "during university" you may as well say "It was boot the time I got my ring in engineering."

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:20 am
Round here, if you say "during university" you may as well say "It was boot the time I got my ring in engineering."

Freyland wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:02 pm "boot".

Teehee

Jeff V wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:11 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:20 am
Round here, if you say "during university" you may as well say "It was boot the time I got my ring in engineering."

Wait a second...in America, we say "Around." Only the queen's cabana boys use "round" when they mean "around." IMPOSTER!!!!

The office of Russia’s infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia’s information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight...

...The Fontanka.ru news website cited police as saying that an unknown suspect broke the agency’s ground-floor window and threw a Molotov cocktail inside at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.

“I think we’ll be treated very fairly,” President Trump told reporters yesterday, after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. “Everybody understands there was no collusion, there’s no Russia. It was all made up by the Democrats.”

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:15 pm What's Russian for Reichstag?

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:37 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:15 pm What's Russian for Reichstag?

Pretty sure it's "Reichstag."

Anyway, I think this fire was small and contained.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:35 pm Kind of heavy handed for clandestine work if it is (pretty big if), but I like it.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:59 pm

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:35 pm Kind of heavy handed for clandestine work if it is (pretty big if), but I like it.

What's more clandestine than making it look like it's not clandestine?

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:01 pm Putin is experiencing a rare and real drop in popularity because Russia's pension system is collapsing.