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2015-08-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI Said to Examine Whether Hillary Clinton E-Mail Was Backed Up

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 You know... on the off chance... Caida.org might actually have some traffic traces that might contain email/partial-messages (from-to) her server

Just saying... and its an University & Industry sponsored R&D site...

Posted by 3dc 2015-08-15 01:21|| 2015-08-15 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 and yes it was an evil thought on my part...
Haven't chatted with them since just before 9-11

Posted by 3dc 2015-08-15 01:24|| 2015-08-15 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Platte River irony anyone ?

New IT Threat!

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This new threat is hidden in malicious ads on popular websites. The hackers display these ads through legit ad networks. End-users visit a major site like Huffington Post, CBS Sports, or Match.com and check out an ad by clicking on it. Clicking that one link is enough to get confronted with a full screen that announces all assets on the computer or worse company network have been encrypted. They are effectively looking for a Bitcoin ransom.

In order to prepare for this and other malicious attacks, we recommend the following…

1. Offsite Backups are key – and historical ones in case the current one is compromised. We recommend true business continuity so if the attack occurs you can be back up quick.
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2. Patch the Operating System and third party apps as soon as possible.

3. Invest in a new Security Device with UTM Unified Threat Manager (most business class firewalls come with it standard) and/or a good Proxy to block ads centrally rather than machine by machine. (If you are off the network (at home), you should use an AdBlocker plugin for each browser.

4. Pay for a VTA – Vulnerability Threat Assessment so a certified Security company can assess your current environment for weaknesses and holes and recommend immediate solutions to protect you and your business.

5. And most important-Awareness! Educate your employees on what to look for, to avoid, and how to perform safe computer behavior.
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Be careful out there!

Once again, who are these people....really? And who paid for their services ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-15 02:15|| 2015-08-15 02:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm pretty sure the only 'intelligence' agencies on the planet who don't have her emails is the agencies of the Justice Department.

Maybe the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, or ISIS can dump us a copy... If we ask real nice.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-08-15 02:20|| 2015-08-15 02:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump could buy them from the Ruskies or ChiComs...

Posted by 3dc 2015-08-15 03:15|| 2015-08-15 03:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Happy to know we have a Brooding Castle to fall back on.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-15 03:28|| 2015-08-15 03:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Might check with NSA as well as the ChiComs, Russkies and ISIS.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-08-15 07:42|| 2015-08-15 07:42|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 Happy to know we have a Brooding Castle to fall back on.
Posted by: Shipman

with a moat, and sharks with frigging laser beams on their heads

Posted by Frank G 2015-08-15 08:49|| 2015-08-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#9 At seeing the sharks with their shutters,
The Saracen siege-captain shudders.
The grand old rag flutters
O'er gargoyles on gutters
And she-goats with gats in their udders.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-15 10:10|| 2015-08-15 10:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Bravo, Zenobia F!

Posted by trailing wife 2015-08-15 11:42|| 2015-08-15 11:42|| Front Page Top

#11 A Lone Ranger post from yesterday.

#5 Something in the story does not add up. To "strip" the TS/SI/TK/NOFORN markings from a document, you fist have to have received the document. Which one of Clinton's aides had the clearance necessary to even RECEIVE the material in the first place?
Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-08-14 22:23|| 2015-08-14 22:23||

There are a few methods in which this could have been accomplished. Yes Ranger, ultimately, someone would have had to have had access to a 'High Side" JWICS (Top Secret box).

1. Printing the TS traffic, removing or blotting out the classification markings, scanning the sanitized paper copy, and saving it to a file on an UNCLAS box for forwarding is one method.

2. A second method would be to copy the TS data from JWICS to a thumb drive or disc, sanitize, then transfer to an UNCLAS box for forwarding.

3. For 'selected personnel,' an electron transfer capability (between boxes) does exist.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-15 11:54|| 2015-08-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile, in Chappaqua, New York:

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-08-15 12:09|| 2015-08-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 https://youtu.be/Prls6Iz3B3E

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-08-15 12:09|| 2015-08-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14

Trump could buy them from the Ruskies or ChiComs...

Very publicly making the offer would make him very difficult to defeat in the primary.

Posted by Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division 2015-08-15 14:23|| 2015-08-15 14:23|| Front Page Top

#15

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-08-15 20:00|| 2015-08-15 20:00|| Front Page Top

#16 3. For 'selected personnel,' an electron transfer capability (between boxes) does exist.

I would very surprised if that happened or exists. More likely scenario is someone printed off the TS/SCI stuff and scanned it on the low side. Occam's razor and all.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2015-08-15 20:57|| 2015-08-15 20:57|| Front Page Top

#17

Posted by 2015-08-15 21:19|| 2015-08-15 21:19|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-08-15 21:37|| 2015-08-15 21:37|| Front Page Top

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