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| Attkisson releases video of computer hacking, 2012 Benghazi files deletion |
| 2014-11-02 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson released video Friday of her Benghazi files being systematically deleted from her computer in 2012, alleging that government agencies were responsible for the crime. Just the Benghazi files, not her recipes, her love notes, or her pictures of her trip to Vancouver. Politico released cellphone video that Ms. Attkisson took in the moments after she lost control of the machine. "I'm not touching it. It's just deleting everything. I'm not touching it. Stop! Stop!" she says in the video as sections of her work disappears. That's pretty daggone interesting. We had the very same thing happen on Rantburg. It was in 2002 or 2003 -- getting old, can't remember things anymore. What was I saying? -- and I sat there and watched an entire day of the 'Burg disappear one by one. That was in the days the database was Microsoft Access and I didn't do regular backups. I ended up restoring the articles from a copy I had open. We only had the front page back then. A firm hired by CBS to examine Ms. Attkisson's computer in 2013 concluded that it had been tampered with by an unknown third party. That was the impetus for Rantburg to switch databases. Close examination showed we had missing records here and there. I switched from Access to Borland and the problem continued. Then I tried switching to Oracle, which wasn't suitable because of the way it handles text files. Then the whole thing traveled to MySQL and we switched from Windows Server to Debian. I knew squat about Linux at the time; I'd worked with Unix before, but that was before there was a www. But that was the point where we quit losing records. "A cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012," CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said in June, The Washington Post reported. "Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data," she added. Bet she was using a windows system. There used to be a fairly simple hack to get into the Windows folder and retrieve the passwords -- we're talkin' script kiddie simple. It's in a book I had that I threw away years ago. Once they had her login and password they could Remote Desktop and she could say goodbye to her data. The award-winning news hound left CBS in March after almost 20 years, citing a bias at the paper regarding stories critical of the White House. In her new book "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington," the news hound said she had her computer checked out by a source she refers to as "Number One." The individual concluded that what was done to her computer was "worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 The only thing Mac ever had going for it was that it wasn't Windows. They weren't as big a target as Windows so they didn't get hacked as much. It doesn't mean they were any better. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2014-11-02 16:59 |
| #6 The hacked machine is a Mac. A MacBook Pro, as seen in this, linked in the original article. Good catch, whoosperie-119! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-02 12:43 |
| #5 Comrades. Please check the Attkisson cell phone video closely. The hacked machine is a Mac. |
| Posted by: whoosperie-119 2014-11-02 12:12 |
| #4 Windows is a gaming platform. |
| Posted by: badanov 2014-11-02 08:18 |
| #3 I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America." Unbelievable yes, but simply add the Attkisson hacking incident to F&F, the Ben Ladin raid, the IRS, Benghazi, Secret Service scandals, Obamacare, the failed U.S. SOFA agreement in Iraq, ISIS, the facilitation of Iranian nuclear development, the recent release of 5 top Taliban from GITMO, Chicken Shi*, amnesty, and everything else that has happened since November of 2008. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-02 02:58 |
| #2 There was an encrypted cloud based virtual OS invented in the City of London for traders in the mid-90s. Stories about it went dark about 1997 so I assume it went live. You booted with a cd or flash drive on any computer (apple, pc, sparc) and the first thing it did is wipe the ram then booted. Then you typed in a long security code and it rebooted as an encrypted image scatter spread across the net. The only decrypted parts were right in front of your eyes on the screen. Each file was diced and sliced and spread across the planet. When you logged off it erased the screen, erased memory, and erased itself. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-11-02 01:02 |
| #1 I refuse to consider M$S Windows a computer operating system. It is just a bunch of execution threads kludged together by the hives (registry) with a thread switching mechanism. This makes it so much easier than Apple, Linux or Plan 9 etc... to hack. I am leery of Android as all its apps are written in Java and Java gives sinful a good name. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-11-02 01:50 |