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Russian losses in Ukraine Now At 1 Million Killed Or Wounded
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 9:42 AM
Quote:You are in error, Signym. The attack comes in the wake of the Solarwinds hack by Russia as well as the earlier Russian hack of U.S. electric power companies.
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:No, they didn't.
SignyM:
If Russians did that to us, we'd nuke 'em.
CAPON: We'd nuke 'em if they changed our cable tv guide??? They shut down gas supplies on the east coast ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/05/08/cyber-attack
-shuts-down-vital-fuel-pipeline-to-northeast-us/?sh=33341b4c3599
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 10:37 AM
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Originally posted by second:
Take your complaint to the CEO, not to the voting booth
Don't worry about where my vote is going. I wasn't ever going to vote the way you want me to.
You worry about the tens of millions that are going to vote against you or just stay at home.
Democrats are finished.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 1:33 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You are in error, Signym. The attack comes in the wake of the Solarwinds hack by Russia as well as the earlier Russian hack of U.S. electric power companies.
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:No, they didn't.
SignyM:
If Russians did that to us, we'd nuke 'em.
CAPON: We'd nuke 'em if they changed our cable tv guide??? They shut down gas supplies on the east coast ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/05/08/cyber-attack
-shuts-down-vital-fuel-pipeline-to-northeast-us/?sh=33341b4c3599
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
For a while, Solar Winds was popularly blamed on China. The reality is, nobody knows who hacked Solar Winds. But let me throw another hat into the ring- another nation with a long and extremely capable history of building and using (and selling) hacking tools: Israel, including hacking into Iran's nuclear processing centrifuges and destroying them. No mean feat, since the center wasn't connected to the inet and the hack required detailed knowledge of the exact Sieman's drivers for the centrifuges.
AFA the power grid is concerned, why go thru all of the trouble to take control of a power grid and then NOT USE IT? The longer the malware sits there, the more likely it is to be discovered. This began around 2015, when Russia really could have used leverage against the USA. Maybe this was just a false flag, planted by the NSA so they could blame Russia at will? Anyway, it makes no sense to plant malware that gives you ultimate controland justlet it sit there.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:29 PM
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:No, they didn't.
SignyM:
If Russians did that to us, we'd nuke 'em.
CAPON: We'd nuke 'em if they changed our cable tv guide??? They shut down gas supplies on the east coast ...
Right. Putin - the dictator of Russia - has no control over what happens in Russia. You funny.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:31 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA the power grid is concerned, why go thru all of the trouble to take control of a power grid and then NOT USE IT? The longer the malware sits there, the more likely it is to be discovered. This began around 2015, when Russia really could have used leverage against the USA. Maybe this was just a false flag, planted by the NSA so they could blame Russia at will? Anyway, it makes no sense to plant malware that gives you ultimate controland justlet it sit there.
You really don't understand how malware works, and you definitely don't understand how fcked Putin is. I guess it's good the Russian people can endure almost endless deprivation? Hard to see that as a consolation, but go ahead.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:49 PM
Quote:Nation's Power System Reveals Cyber Attacks on Hundreds of Small Contractors
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
For a while, Solar Winds was popularly blamed on China. The reality is, nobody knows who hacked Solar Winds. But let me throw another hat into the ring- another nation with a long and extremely capable history of building and using (and selling) hacking tools: Israel, including hacking into Iran's nuclear processing centrifuges and destroying them. No mean feat, since the center wasn't connected to the inet and the hack required detailed knowledge of the exact Sieman's drivers for the centrifuges.
AFA the power grid is concerned, why go thru all of the trouble to take control of a power grid and then NOT USE IT? The longer the malware sits there, the more likely it is to be discovered. This began around 2015, when Russia really could have used leverage against the USA. Maybe this was just a false flag, planted by the NSA so they could blame Russia at will? Anyway, it makes no sense to plant malware that gives you ultimate controland justlet it sit there.
Source: WSJ - Rebecca Smith and Rob Barry
Posted on January 11, 2019
The cyberattack on the 15-person company near Salem, Ore., which works with utilities and government agencies, was an early thrust in the worst known hack by a foreign government into the nation’s electric grid. It set off so many alarms that U.S. officials took the unusual step in early 2018 of publicly blaming the Russian government.
A reconstruction of the hack reveals a glaring vulnerability at the heart of the country’s electric system. Rather than strike the utilities head on, the hackers went after the system’s unprotected underbelly—hundreds of contractors and subcontractors like All-Ways who had no reason to be on high alert against foreign agents. From these tiny footholds, the hackers worked their way up the supply chain. Some experts believe two dozen or more utilities ultimately were breached.
The scheme’s success came less from its technical prowess—though the attackers did use some clever tactics—than in how it exploited trusted business relationships using impersonation and trickery.
The hackers planted malware on sites of online publications frequently read by utility engineers. They sent out fake résumés with tainted attachments, pretending to be job seekers. Once they had computer-network credentials, they slipped through hidden portals used by utility technicians, in some cases getting into computer systems that monitor and control electricity flows.
The Wall Street Journal pieced together this account of how the attack unfolded through documents, computer records and interviews with people at the affected companies, current and former government officials and security-industry investigators.
The U.S. government hasn’t named the utilities or other companies that were targeted. The Journal identified small businesses such as Commercial Contractors Inc., in Ridgefield, Wash., and Carlson Testing Inc., in Tigard, Ore., along with big utilities such as the federally owned Bonneville Power Administration and Berkshire Hathaway’s PacifiCorp. Two of the energy companies targeted build systems that supply emergency power to Army bases.
The Russian campaign triggered an effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security to retrace the steps of the attackers and notify possible victims. Some companies were unaware they had been compromised until government investigators came calling, and others didn’t know they had been targeted until contacted by the Journal.
“What Russia has done is prepare the battlefield without pulling the trigger,” says Robert P. Silvers, former assistant secretary for cyber policy at Homeland Security and now a law partner at Paul Hastings LLP.
The press office at the Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. Russia has previously denied targeting critical infrastructure.
In the summer of 2016, U.S. intelli
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 6:14 AM
We count 6x T-72B-series MBT, 14x BMP-1/2 variants, 7x MT-LB, a tugboat & 5+ other armoured vehicles destroyed/abandoned/damaged. Note precise ID is very hard.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1524413089579511808
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 8:33 AM
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Nation's Power System Reveals Cyber Attacks on Hundreds of Small Contractors
Source: WSJ - Rebecca Smith and Rob Barry
Posted on January 11, 2019
The cyberattack on the 15-person company near Salem, Ore., which works with utilities and government agencies, was an early thrust in the worst known hack by a foreign government into the nation’s electric grid. It set off so many alarms that U.S. officials took the unusual step in early 2018 of publicly blaming the Russian government.
Uh huh.
US officials also claimed that Trump was peed on in a Moscow hotel, which made him Putin's slave, even there was no evidence behind it, and it turned out to be a complete fabrication.
US officials also claimed that DNC server files were hacked from abroad, altho examination of the metadata (fast transfer rate, timestamps all ending in even numbers) clearly indicates that it was xfeted locally to a USB stick.
US officials blame a lot of people for a lot of things without any credible evidence whatsoever.
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By the end of this year, Russia will have acquired a large portion of Ukraine and our economy will be on the ropes (and the EU even worse), all of your bullshit, rah-rah-ism and propaganda notwithstanding. Or we (most of the planet) will be a great smoking ruin. And we can thank the neocons for that. That's my prediction, anyway
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 9:46 AM
Quote:Russia didn't hack the USA because you said it didn't, but you do say Russia will win Ukraine and EU/USA will lose. You're getting those ideas from somewhere. What is the psychic's name telepathically linked into your mind? Don't use Nostradamus because he's dead. Who is it?
Originally posted by SignyM:
Uh huh.
Nostradamus predictions for 2022: cannibals, robots and the rise of cryptocurrency
https://nypost.com/2021/12/27/nostradamus-predictions-2022/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:52 PM
Quote:NOPE! That's not what I posted, dummy!! Read my posts again!
SignyM:
Uh huh.
SECOND: Russia didn't hack the USA because you said it didn't,
Quote:Maybe it's because I read more carefully than you.
but you do say Russia will win Ukraine and EU/USA will lose. You're getting those ideas from somewhere.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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