>If climate change is real, why are the big banks still making massive, multi-decade loans for beachfront properties?
"If climate change is real…"
Why did that lying prick, Al Gore, buy a $10,000,000 beach front mansion!?!
"The Most Destructive Breach In History": Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt
The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now been revealed that a key component of the malware used by cyber-criminals was actually developed just a short drive from Baltimore - at the NSA, according to the New York Times.
The tool used - called EternalBlue – has been used by hackers in North Korea, Russia and China to "cut a path of destruction around the world", and resulted in billions of dollars in damages.
Now, it has come full circle and is back in the US, wreaking havoc just miles from Washington. In fact, security experts say that attacks using EternalBlue have soared and cyber-criminals are honing in on vulnerable towns and cities, using it to paralyze governments. The NSA's connection to the attacks had previously not been reported and the NSA hasn’t commented about it since an unidentified group leaked the weapon online in April 2017.
The NSA and the FBI still don’t know whether or not it was leaked by foreign spies or US insiders.
The leak has been referred to as “the most destructive and costly N.S.A. breach in history,” by Thomas Rid, a cybersecurity expert at Johns Hopkins University. He continued: “The government has refused to take responsibility, or even to answer the most basic questions. Congressional oversight appears to be failing. The American people deserve an answer.”
An answer that we're sure they won't get.
Commenting on the leak in April 2017, Edward Snowden said that the "NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons; hackers leaked it."
Since the April 2017 leak, foreign intelligence agencies and hackers have used the software to paralyze places like hospitals, airports, rail and shipping operators, ATMs and factories. In the United States, hackers are using the software to hit local governments with outdated infrastructure and few resources to defend themselves.
The software used to be one of the most useful exploits in the NSA's arsenal. Former NSA analysts spent almost a year finding a flaw in Microsoft's software and writing the code to target it. The tool was initially called "EternalBlueScreen" because it had a penchant for crashing computers. In fact, it was so valuable that the agency never even alerted Microsoft to the security flaw and instead, held onto the tool for five years before the breach in 2017 forced them to talk about it.
The May 7 Baltimore attack saw city workers' screens suddenly lock up and a message in broken English demanding $100,000 in Bitcoin ransom. And, as Baltimore has not yet paid the ransom, the city's computers remain handicapped. Without the former NSA tool, the damage wouldn’t of been as bad.
North Korea was the first to allegedly use the tool in 2017 when they attacked the British healthcare system, German railroads and 200,000 additional organizations around the world. Then, Russia reportedly used the tool on Ukraine and companies that did business in the country. The assault cost FedEx more than $400 million and Merck $670 million. Over the past year, Russian hackers have also used it to compromise hotel Wi-Fi networks, while Iranian hackers have used it to hack airlines in the Middle East. Of course, there is no evidence that any of these actors were behind the reported hacks.
Vikram Thakur, Symantec’s director of security response said: “It’s incredible that a tool which was used by intelligence services is now publicly available and so widely used.”
When the tool was leaked in 2017, the NSA finally reached out to Microsoft, who developed a patch - but by then, it was too late and many systems still remained unprotected.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-27/most-destructive-breach-history-hackers-use-nsa-code-grind-baltimore-halt
>James Comey: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that.
Sounds like Slimeball is sacred . . . yeah, he's scared!
Donald Trump Jr. torches Eric Swalwell over "I may be 'another white guy'" tweet
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445721-swalwell-i-may-be-another-white-guy-but-i-know-when-to-pass-the-mic?__twitter_impression=true
>Donald Trump Jr. torches Eric Swalwell over "I may be 'another white guy'" tweet
@ericswalwell: “Hey America, on a scale of 1-100, how cool would it be if I were President?”
America: (pic related)
>God, please don’t punish me for saying that
That POS SwalloWell wants to nuke Americans to take our guns…I think you're safe, Anon!