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CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
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Posted on 06/14/2013 7:58:50 AM PDT by sunmars

CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.

That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:

“A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: attkisson; attkissoncomputer; benghazi; cbs; cbsnews; cracking; fastandfurious; govtabuse; hacking; impeachnow; irs; sharylattkisson
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To: maggief

This is going to get very interesting,Fast and Furious scared the crap out of Holder and he used any means to find out who was leaking.


21 posted on 06/14/2013 8:18:01 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Seems unlikely CBS would need to do this. They probably have access to her backups and would get whatever data they wanted off of those a lot easier.


22 posted on 06/14/2013 8:19:06 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: maggief
"This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.”"

If CBS News' contractor was able to discover the unauthorized access, it would appear that "all possible indications" were not in fact removed.

23 posted on 06/14/2013 8:19:21 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: sunmars

Now they feel violated. Had they done their jod in 2008 rather than get in bed with zer0 this would not have happened


24 posted on 06/14/2013 8:19:28 AM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: SE Mom

If I was a company, i’d be getting the whole place checked out, who knows who has been running round your business.


25 posted on 06/14/2013 8:19:29 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: sunmars

Perhaps she wasn’t repeating the WH talking points correctly?

Pray for America to Wake Up


26 posted on 06/14/2013 8:21:56 AM PDT by bray (Stop tolerating beheading!)
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To: sunmars

"Sasha! Malia! Come check out these pictures I got off of Sharyl Attkisson's computer! Oooooh!"


27 posted on 06/14/2013 8:23:55 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: sunmars
sunmars ~:" If I was a company, i’d be getting the whole place checked out, who knows who has been running round your business."

and I would start at the company servers


28 posted on 06/14/2013 8:24:59 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: maggief
"This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity,..."

Apparently not well enough.

29 posted on 06/14/2013 8:25:48 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: sunmars

Puts CBS in a bad spot - they don’t want to hurt the corrupt one(s) they love... Could democrats be using the FBI and Homeland Security for spying on ‘extremists (their political opponents)? Bet your life on it. Even if it’s technically in a different office - we know where the expertise came from...


30 posted on 06/14/2013 8:27:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why don't Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners? - Coulter)
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To: sunmars

Were I Sharyl Atkisson, I’d have two computers: one online and one not, with a stick as the go-between. They could know what I’m looking at, but not what I’m saying about it. That would preclude them from having their damage control strategy ready before I published.


31 posted on 06/14/2013 8:28:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: butterdezillion

I owe you a public apology. You’ve made claims for a long time that your personal computers were being hacked and I rolled my eyes about it. Most people’s computer troubles are of their own making. I assumed that was the case with you, butter. I apologize. This CBS revelation together with the NSA email collection leads me to believe that your computer problems could very well be malicious in nature. So I apologize to you for doubting you and rolling my eyes.

Tex


32 posted on 06/14/2013 8:29:24 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: sunmars

Ha Ha! To use all those Snowden hit pieces they’ve already written up or not to. What a dilemma for CBS.


33 posted on 06/14/2013 8:30:13 AM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: Carry_Okie

and now you see why they want everyone to upload their stuff onto this Cloud thing.......not a chance i ever will.


34 posted on 06/14/2013 8:30:31 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: AppyPappy

WH will send all the news that’s fits their prints to owners of obami-fones!


35 posted on 06/14/2013 8:32:39 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: sunmars
and now you see why they want everyone to upload their stuff onto this Cloud thing.......not a chance i ever will.

Some software will soon be unavailable except via the cloud. Adobe is going there now. I hope it flops.

36 posted on 06/14/2013 8:32:59 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: sunmars

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html

Don’t be so sure. .looks as though many companies are in cahoots with them
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37 posted on 06/14/2013 8:34:55 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: maggief

Hmmmmm......unknown my ass. This administration is completely out of control....yet no one does a thing...not a darn thing!


38 posted on 06/14/2013 8:36:43 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: sunmars

Well, how silly! We already know that nobody did it and that nobody knows nothin’ and that nobody authorized it. Blah, blah


39 posted on 06/14/2013 8:37:43 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: sunmars

It’s obvious that Obama’s thugs did this. Yet again, if the Bush administration had done this, the Left would be screaming like Banshees about a constitutional crisis. If they don’t start screaming so now, it’s time to protest at their TV station affiliates all over the U.S. to show them that the angry mob is gathering.


40 posted on 06/14/2013 8:38:52 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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