Sources: US Officials Warned DNC Of Hack Months Before The Party Acted

[Purveyor]

Source: CNN

(CNN)Federal investigators tried to warn the Democratic National Committee about a potential intrusion in their computer network months before the party moved to try to fix the problem, US officials briefed on the probe tell CNN.

The revelation raises questions about whether the DNC could have done more to limit the damage done by hackers suspected of working for Russian intelligence.

The DNC brought in consultants from the private security firm CrowdStrike in April. And by the time suspected Russian hackers were kicked out of the DNC network in June, the hackers had been inside for about a year.

A person briefed on the DNC's response says the warning from the FBI and other agencies wasn't specific, and that the extent of the problem wasn't clear when the initial warnings came. DNC officials hired outside help after additional indications surfaced that their systems were compromised.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-dnc-emails-russia/index.html

[jonno99]

1. And they waited until convention week to unleash a shit-storm, great...

[Arazi]

6. They were still hacking into June! Exactly how much faster would they have gotten them?

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Nobody listens to InfSec

[floriduck]

4. Ya, that's quite obvious. But should they have? Or did they hide their collective heads in the

sand hoping a sand storm would blow it away?!

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Of course they should have

But having worked in that field for a bit...


No one listens

[OwlinAZ]

10. What did Hillary know and when did she know it?

Just joking.

[NWCorona]

9. Not until it's too late

[jtuck004]

13. Sure they do. They listen, and then scurry off to cover up what is going on until they

can figure out a strategy to blame someone else for their own actions.

You and I both worked in this.

For those who cannot do, they cannot just ignore, they have to blame.

It beats all that nasty studying and work and stuff the rest of us do to avoid having to do that.

[Loki Liesmith]

14. 100% on target.

It's one reason I'm a data scientist now.

[jtuck004]

15. Yeah, I was moving that direction, had a nice virtual farm going, but I got ill,

and when I went back I wanted to produce something.

So now I am growing worms to produce fertilizer and worms, and working on a small microgreens business. I'll hook up the temp and humidity to my Linux boxes one of these days.

It eventually should pay me and others what we could get elsewhere, and it's kinda nice, 'cause the worms don't have Internet access, so they can't criticize everything I do.

[Mika]

3. How convenient. Now the DNC can call Berners Putinites for complete discrediting campaign.

A southern strategy AND a Cold War strategy to demonize progressives.
Truly. Disgusting. If so.

[Arazi]

5. Astonishing gross willful negligence

[Shandris]

8. So Donald Trump hacked the DNC servers...last June?

That's an interesting take. Had the emails right as he joined the race, huh.

Amazing. That Putin and he would work together so closely, so far ahead of time.

Simply amazing. Incredible, even.

Quite.

[Sgent]

11. Reason enough

for DWS head to roll.

[BunkieBandit]

12. More E-mail issues ? When was e-mail invented 2015 ? The internets. Two years ago ?

Dammit does anyone in our Party know what the hell a secure server is ? I hope whoever replaces DWS knows how to turn the damn thing (computer) on. It would be a giant leap forward, light years ahead of the past leader of the DNC. Damn.

[vinny9698]

16. I am currently studying Network Security

Our professor told us that there is really no 100% security, if they are determined they will break in. The only hope is that you have strong enough security to deter them and make them go after softer targets.