Source: Clinton email server logs show no breach

[Dem2]

By JOSH GERSTEIN 03/03/16 10:11 PM EST

Logs for Hillary Clinton's email server turned over to the FBI by a former aide to Clinton show no evidence of suspicious foreign traffic indicating hacking from abroad, a person familiar with the investigation said.

The records were provided to the FBI by former Clinton information technology staffer Bryan Pagliano, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Pagliano worked at the State Department but was also involved in setting up the server at Clinton's Chappaqua, N.Y. home.


The New York Times first reported Thursday that the logs show no indication of foreign hacking.

The FBI has been investigating since last summer whether sensitive information in Clinton's account was compromised by foreign intelligence services, hackers or others. An FBI spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/source-clinton-email-server-logs-show-no-breach-220232#ixzz41u3tn7UJ

[jeff47]

1. Because malware writes to syslog.

"Installing Malware"
"Compromising Databases"
"Uploading all data to China"

[Dem2]

2. I just noticed someone else posted this story while I was posting it.

I saw your post there.

Copy/Paste.

[jeff47]

5. Did you expect the same story to suddenly create a different reality?

One of the key steps in developing your malware is to avoid having it show up in logs. Because there's a giant pile of tools that grep logs looking for odd things.

So you write your software such that it does not show up in the logs.

[Dem2]

6. Guess we'll never know then

If the FBI doesn't see it, and we can assume they have good tools, then it's over as far as this part of the investigation goes.

[jeff47]

7. I'm sure the FBI actually sees it or not.

But they don't see it via log files.

They see it by looking at every single file on that server's disks, and every byte in the firmware.

Like the "marked retroactively!!" defense, this story is a leak relying on lack of knowledge among the readers.

[Dem2]

10. "this story is a leak relying on lack of knowledge among the readers."

You're now classifying 80% of what is considered "news" these days, in my opinion obviously.

I scream at the TV a lot.

[jfern]

3. Two issues

One, a breach can happened without it showing up in the logs. And two, the e-mails were all sent plaintext over the Internet, in which random 3rd party servers had top secret classified information passing through them.

[ucrdem]

4. Apart from the Sanders campaign that is . . .

I'm starting to understand why she kept her server in her garage

[MaggieD]

8. Of course not

I think that was the real reason she used a private server. The State Department server has been hacked several times. I know she can't say that because she can't discuss the problems with government security. But I think that was one of the reasons she did what she did.

[2pooped2pop]

11. ...

[Paulie]

9. You have to enable logging, size the log retention

And then store them off the box before they rotate. Otherwise they are gone.

Any other IOC? What about firewall logs?

[The Midway Rebel]

12. Oh, there she goes. Dodging bullets again.

[oasis]

13. Top DU investigators have not yet released their findings.

America anxiously awaits.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Hacker 101, taught back when 2600 was in print--Leave No Footprints!

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System logs can be edited like any other file, using developer tools, leaving no footprints.


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[bigwillq]

15. Good.

I hope so.
I am all for investigations to learn the truth-whatever it may be.