Sharyl Attkisson on being hacked: My computers turned themselves on/off in the middle of the night

Hotair ^ | 06/17/2013 | AllahPundit

[Egon]

Wake-on-LAN?

[Dallas59]

Boohoo. You get what you vote for lady and your political organization, “CBS” gets what it deserves.

[TADSLOS]

“Good Morning, Dave...”

[JennysCool]

a computer might “wake up” automatically due to Windows Update

Actually, I consider Windows Update a form of hacking!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Boohoo. You get what you vote for lady

Did she vote for Obama?

[Sopater]

It seems like every story that I see on this issue is from some news agency that ISN’T CBS. What’s up with that? CBS should be all over this.

[2banana]

You left them (unencrypted) hooked up to the internet???

[Sopater]

They would have needed to gain physical access to the machine and installed some sort of remote power switch, I assume.

I believe that if someone can access the BIOS, they can set the computer to come on automatically at a set time every day if they like.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are discovering that the beast they helped create makes a terrible taskmaster.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

How do you know whom she voted for?

It’s notable that Sharyl Attkisson was one of the only—if not THE only—mainstream media reporter outside FOX doing any investigative reporting on either F&F or Benghazi, so I wouldn’t be so quick to heap scorn on her.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Happened to us years ago (dial-up modem days). Got hacked and someone programmed the machine to dial some number in Africa at 4AM and begin forwarding emails. Little problem in that the early morning one-hour call to Senegal stuck out like a sore thumb on our phone bill.

[Stentor]

Sleep well Sharyl. I’m sure it was only hackers. No black bags were involved. I know the Clinton’s would never hire a private eye. Cough Terry Lenzer cough.

[Raycpa]

She may have been suspicious in general and then even normal stuff would look suspicious.

[LyinLibs]

[Old Yeller]

Who you gonna call?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

To hit it with a WOL magic packet, you need to access the network with another system.

How may other systems on that subnet are compromised?

All of them?

[Billthedrill]

It’s notable that Sharyl Attkisson was one of the only—if not THE only—mainstream media reporter outside FOX doing any investigative reporting on either F&F or Benghazi...

Yeah...a pure coinky-dinky, no doubt. The media are like battered wives - he does this to them and they swoon over him anyway.

[cookcounty]

"You get what you vote for lady and your political organization, “CBS” gets what it deserves."

Knowing what we know it is UNLIKELY that Atkkisson voted for Obama. She was #1 in the nation on reporting on Fast and Furious and was pretty aggressive on Benghazi as well (which is probably why she was hacked).

[upchuck]

You got it, most likely.