Tag: Hacker

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the country's major political parties were hacked earlier this month alongside the federal parliament by a "sophisticated state actor". The announcement on Monday came 10 days after the launch of a probe into the cybersecurity breach of the parliament's computer network. "Our cyber experts believe that a sophisticated state actor is responsible for this malicious activity," he said. At the time, the Australian Signals Directorate had confirmed it was working with parliament in response to the breach, a move that indicated the possible involvement of sophisticated actors. May polls Australia is expected to hold elections in mid-May, raising concerns that hackers could be trying to influence the outcome of the vote or change the tenor of the debate. Along with Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, Australia is part of the Five Eyes intelligence network, which gives it access to a host of signals and human intelligence to back up any suspicions of state hacking. "Our political institutions represent high-value targets. But we have resilient systems in place to detect compromises and remediate them," said Alastair MacGibbon, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre. He said it was unclear whether the attackers gained access to sensitive data or emails. "We genuinely do not know."

A shocking new report from the New York Times reveals Facebook was sharing a lot more of your information than previously disclosed, even after they promised to stop. Chris Jansing is joined by Politico’s Chief Economic Correspondent Ben White and…

An exhaustive report in the New York Times is laying out everything we know about Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. election and the subsequent investigation. Stephanie Ruhle speaks with one of the New York Times’ reporters – Scott Shane…

A source briefed on the matter confirmed to Fox News the details of the Caller’s reporting. Gohmert also had told Fox News on Tuesday that the emails were obtained by a foreign country’s intelligence, though he declined to name the country in question. But on Wednesday, the FBI sharply disputed the claims, saying it “has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.” In his overnight statement, Gohmert argued it was the ICIG -- not the FBI -- that discovered the breach. “It’s not surprising that the FBI ‘has not found any evidence’ regarding Clinton’s servers being breached,” Gohmert, R-Texas, said. “It was the Obama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General that discovered the breach. It was not the FBI that found it, so their statement was technically correct, but very deceptive in its omission.” The FBI also had referred Fox News to the Justice Department’s Inspector General report, which was released in June, to push back on the Caller's reporting. That report, which examined the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Clinton’s private email server and her handling of classified information, detailed how the FBI conducted an intrusion analysis into the server to look for evidence of a breach. The report notes the FBI “was limited in its intrusion analysis due to the ‘FBI’s inability to recover all server equipment and the lack of complete server data for the relevant time period. “When I asked Peter Strzok about this, he said that he remembered being briefed by the ICIG investigator but did not remember what it was about. Strzok, who served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team until his anti-Trump text messages were discovered, lost his security clearance in July and was fired from the FBI earlier this month.

There are new claims today that Russia is trying to influence the midterm elections. The latest hack attempt is almost identical to 2016, with one very big difference. New York Times digital reporter Sheera Frankel joins Ali Velshi with the…

In the wake of reports confirming the shutdown of 32 fake Facebook accounts and pages associated with a political influence campaign, questions linger regarding the platform’s management and ability to control foreign influence. Jeff Jarvis, Elise Jordan, and Former Senator…

Rep. Eric Swalwell, Democrat from California and House Intelligence Committee member, reacts to options Congress has in response to Russian election interference and the President's comments in, and after, Helsinki: "Doing nothing is not an option to protect the ballot…

Clinton 2016 presidential campaign chairman John Podesta reacts to learning how Russian military operatives stole his emails in a cyber attack meant to hurt Clinton and help candidate Trump. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination…

The Special Counsel indictment of 12 Russian Military operatives for attacking the DNC and Clinton campaign and stealing their Emails puts the USA in a situation best called "Watergate Part 2." Jill Wine-Banks, Joyce Vance and David Corn join Lawrence.…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s charges against 12 members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency accused of hacking related to the 2016 US presidential election are a stark reminder of the ways in which technology can be used to disrupt democratic processes. Speaking at a press conference announcing the charges today, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general (pictured at center above), said the indictment (PDF) didn’t contain allegations that the hacking had actually influenced the outcome of the 2016 election. But it provides plenty of details about just how extensive and well-planned the attack was on targets that included the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, and the Clinton campaign. Here are a few of the things that immediately stand out. Once in, they knew how to get data out: Using malware dubbed X-Agent, the indictment says, the hackers were able to infect computers at the DCCC and gain access to the DNC’s network. They got far more than just e-mails, too—the malware allowed the attackers to snoop on what staffers were typing and take screenshots of their work. They tried their best to cover their tracks … The Russians allegedly used an extensive network of servers to hide their tracks and funded the purchase of computer infrastructure using Bitcoin. Among other things, this enabled the hackers to pay a firm based in Romania to register a domain they used to distribute stolen content. (The indictment says one, unnamed US congressional candidate subsequently reached out to Guccifer to get access to stolen information.) Given the sophistication of the attacks revealed in the indictment, election officials will need all the help they can get.