Posted on 01/04/2017 5:28:54 PM PST by Cheerio
The FBI did not look over the Democratic National Committee's servers before issuing a report that Russia had hacked the organization, according to a report published Wednesday evening. Other than the FBI, no federal agency has conducted an investigation into the DNC's email server since the incident was uncovered six months ago.
"The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington (DC) Field Office, the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation, but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers," said Eric Walker, the DNC's deputy communications director, according to the report.
Instead, Director James Comey's agency has relied on third-party tech security company Crowdstrike to confirm the DNC's servers were hacked, a U.S. official said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I PRAY Triumph FIRES EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THESE PEOPLE!!!!
It was a carefully researched political decision and accusation and is not reliant on any inappropriate facts or truths.
wow.
insulation is not just for walls anymore people.
Again, reality smashes the lying mediots and their fake news from the Compost and Ny Slimes.
The FBI outsourced the investigation??? LOL. Not even Hollywood could make up this fantasy story. Nobody wants their fingerprints on this steaming pile. It’s like a sick game of hot potato.
Co-Founder and CTO
Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., leading its Intelligence, Technology and CrowdStrike Labs teams. A renowned computer security researcher, he is a thought-leader on cybersecurity policies and state tradecraft.
Prior to founding CrowdStrike, Dmitri was a Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, where he led company’s global Internet threat intelligence analysis and investigations. In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names.
In 2013, Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being selected as MIT Technology Review’s “Young Innovators under 35” (TR35), an award previously won by such technology luminaries as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Jonathan Ive. Alperovitch was named Foreign Policy Magazine’s Leading Global Thinker for 2013, an award shared with Secretary of State John Kerry, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. He was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security in 2011 and recognized in 2013 as one Washingtonian’s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity.
With more than a decade of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of eighteen patented technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention. Alperovitch holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/dmitri-alperovitch/
So a Russian spook creates the story?
Maybe Comey's afraid to take on the 'intelligence services'...
wow.
insulation is not just for walls anymore people.
Yep. CYA big time. When the Federal Bureau of INVESTIGATION is outsourcing the “investigation” the jig is up. LOL.
The HARDWARE did it?
Same company that made the laughable claim about SONY being hacked by North Korea.
contributions to the federal information security in 2011
contributions to the federal information security in 2011
Why don’t we have a private investigative firm replace the FBI?
what jurisdiction does the FBI have to investigate the DNC??
Crowd strike is the company the DNC contracted over the summer.
I never saw this until today. It’s a crazy story from October about a dating site taking on Assange.
Buried in it is the name crowdstrike.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article110904727.html
Now I understand why Trump’s briefing got postponed.
Somebody got a whiff that this report was coming out tonight, and they’re all scurrying around like roaches when the lights are turned on.
I smell weasels.
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