Russians Tried To Hack Biden's Campaign, But He Was Ready

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/10/joe-biden-russia-attempted-hack.html


Posted on Thu, Sep 10th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Russians Tried To Hack Biden’s Campaign, But He Was Ready


Microsoft detected that Russian state hackers were trying to hack a campaign firm working for former vice president Joe Biden.

Reuters reported:

Microsoft Corp recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people briefed on the matter.
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The hacking attempts targeted staff at Washington-based SKDKnickerbocker, a campaign strategy and communications firm working with Biden and other prominent Democrats, over the past two months, the sources said.

A person familiar with SKDK’s response to the attempts said the hackers failed to gain access to the firm’s networks. “They are well-defended, so there has been no breach,” the person said.

The firm that was the Russian target works for the Biden campaign and several other Democratic candidates.

These are the same tactics that the Russians used to help Trump in 2016. The 2016 hacking gave Trump and Putin information on Clinton campaign plans and strategies. It is a different world in 2020. The Biden campaign has learned from the hacks on Hillary Clinton and has done a better job with preemptive defense against Russian attacks.

The Russians are pulling their same old tricks again, and so far haven’t shown anything new that wasn’t in their 2016 playbook.

The difference is that Biden and the Democrats are ready and not surprised by Russia’s attempts to help Trump.

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

But I thought Joe was so "sleepy?"

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I wish they could infect their hack with a tracker.

[Blue_true]

8. I would love to see something like that done. Decoy them into a poison pill site that

eviscerate their ping and silently load it up with destructive viruses.

[crickets]

3. Go, Joe!

Can't wait to see the same level of cyber security be a priority for country again as well.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Go get em Joe..kudos the staff that sleuthed it out!!

[fierywoman]

5. And now if only Florida could smilarly prepare itself against being hacked Nov 3.

[ffr]

6. Don't change that password!!!!!!

The bogus E-mail link is just that, bogus. Fuck that and fuck the Russians!

[paleotn]

7. If I catch you with a thumb drive...

Pack your stuff. If you click on a link in a suspicious email, use the cyanide pill. It's the easier way out. Some folks take data security very seriously. Some don't to their internal regret. The Biden campaign is, thank the gods, in the former category. After 2016, it's a hefty item on the list of expenses, but well worth it.

[Blue_true]

11. I disable the capacity of "internal" computers to share information with

any computer but one on the secure local net. To defeat that a person would have to physically tap into that local net, such a thing is easily detected. Computers that communicate with the outside world can’t communicate with any devices on the local net.

[Liberal In Red State]

9. So one would think that if they are trying to do it again . . . that there was no Russian Hoax as

the orange orangutan claims. Seems to me all the 2016 claims have been verified . . . again . . . and treason should be all that anyone is talking about. The dRump campaign waged war on our electoral process aided and abetted by the Russian government in 2016 and they are trying to do it again. GOP assisting dRump and family are not only complicit but guilty as well. Not that any of this isn’t what we have believed since 2016. We tried to prove it through the Mueller Report only to find out that we were thwarted by Rosenstein limiting the probe. Prosecutors obtained guilty verdicts in the likes of Flynn, Manafort, Stone, etc. . . . to be overturned by Presidential pardons, etc. dRump is guilty as hell of treason and the press is too chickenshit to go after him. Why are they not aggressively pursuing the most pervasive threat to our Republic in its history?

[Tribetime]

10. I bet Sean Hannity had advanced warning of this

Biden catching this just screwed up his show tonight

[warmfeet]

12. Who could have possibly foreseen

such a thing happening.