President Obama Releases Ridiculous FBI Report on “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity”

Flopping Aces ^ | Dec, 29th, 2016 | Curt

[ez]

Oh yeah. Oops. Need an edit feature.

[doorgunner69]

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[Praxeologue]

Your comments, plus those of your IT colleagues, suggest that the FBI produced this report under duress. The subtext is “duress!”. So Comey makes sure that this will be clear to any technically competent reader. Obama is advised of this, but no one in the bureaucracy will lie for him at this late stage, since he cannot harm them.

[xp38]

Trump is the leader in this image.

[Texas Fossil]

I searched as you suggested and found a “related” article where the NYT quoted this from Russia:

Konstantin Kosachyov, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian Parliament, told Interfax that “this is the agony not even of ‘lame ducks,’ but of ‘political corpses.’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/us/politics/russia-election-hacking-sanctions.html

Of course the NYT is still trying to spin polish this POS scam from OBOZO.

[trebb]

I read the “report.” It could have been cut and pasted from my Norton Antivirus newsletter or the stuff disseminated by my IT Department at work.

Yep - mentions "election" 3 times, none of them with a statement of being hacked, and could've been written about any nation - even us....

[Texas Fossil]

Agree. Trump is certainly not going to let Obozo tie his hands on anything. Nor should he.

FUBO!

[usconservative]

Honestly, as I said on another thread somewhere yesterday I've seen better, more detailed information coming from the FBI, Banking Regulators and cyber-security experts specific to the types of attacks we experience in the banking industry on a daily basis than this "report" contains.

To call it complete garbage and written by an amateur (likely an FBI intern somewhere...) would be an insult to garbage.

It's high time for the Obama Administration to PUT UP OR SHUT UP. Let's see the evidence, or STFU.

If you look at the report rating, TLP: WHITE that simply means it's a "generic" report that's primarily copied and pasted from other documents, most of which comes from Systems Administrator best practices and Cyber-Security 101. Cisco's CISSP, Microsoft's MCSE/Windows System Administrator and beginning Linux manuals contain similar -almost word for word- language in them. So I think my assessment an FBI Intern wrote the document using a standard template is likely spot-on.

One last comment: as you know my oldest son is in the Centennial Honors Program at one of our state's fine universities and is studying Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement with a minor in Criminal Psychology. He's targeting the FBI's Criminal Profiler division and already has some contacts into the FBI. He (oldest son) read the report and dismissed it as "generic" and "garbage" himself. The whole thing was written to be yet another distraction for those who haven't a clue about cyber-security and are easily impressed with some of the language the document contains.

I personally wouldn't bother printing it to wipe my ass with after taking an Obama. But that's just me I suppose.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

Sorry, here’s the link to the pdf:

https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296A_GRIZZLY%20STEPPE-2016-1229.pdf

Regards,
HLB

[LucyT]

The Obama Releases Ridiculous FBI Report on “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity”

Laz wrote:

Ok.

I’m a computer developer with security programming training, specifically, Federal training.

THIS IS INDEED A LAME GARBAGE REPORT.

There is ZERO offered evidence any of this was Russian in origin, and merely details pretty industry-standard best practices and talks about very common attacks.

One particular one popped out at me: XSS. Cross Site Scripting. GOOD GOD, YOU PEOPLE HAVEN’T HARDENED AGAINST SIMPLE SCRIPT-KIDDY ATTACKS??? This attack is the simplest to carry out, and the simplest to defend against.

This ‘report’ is a litany of incompetence and half of the space is taken up with the industry’s ‘best practices’ in defending against attacks.

And not ONE LICK of evidence Russia was involved.

Not ONE LICK.

Thanks, Laz.

[little jeremiah]

Very interested, thanks for posting and pinging.

[Baynative]

"And not ONE LICK of evidence Russia was involved. Not ONE LICK."

Is that the same as "Not a smidgen" ?

[Lazamataz]

Do not lick the smidgen.

You’re welcome.

[Texas Fossil]

thanks

[usconservative]

I read a bunch of it. Looks like a typical “white paper” released by a security contractors to impress upper management types. It appears to say a lot but doesn’t really say that much.

Correct. It was a copy and paste job by an FBI intern. I recognize much of the language from other similar "reports" from various consulting firms and Windows / Linux / Unix Systems Administration & Security 101 books.

The entire report is an F'ing joke. Our "intelligence" agencies claiming the Russians used the most commonly discovered attack, Spearfishing? Seriously? LOL!!

Any script kiddie can do it.

[usconservative]

If I had handed a "report" like that in to my 5th grade teacher she would have made me do it over and given me a 2nd report to do to get a grade on the assignment.

Hand a report like this one to any Private Sector IT Security Manager worth their salt and you'd get laughed at and escorted from the premises.

But in the US Government, this is great stuff! Promotable even!!!

[TigersEye]

I have this funny feeling the FBI didn’t produce this. More like some 0-administration hack who likes to play with Adobe making fake BCs and the like.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

"This report is ‘justification' for (further) *domestic* action."

Well, that didn't take long - hours!

“A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials” and continued “While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation’s electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.”

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509967/posts

Enemies of America.