WADA Confirms Attack by Russian Cyber Espionage Group

Post by supergirl » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #59

supergirl wrote: post #55

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You didn't get me. In this post they say the attack originated in Russia. I hope you don't think that automatically means the government did it. In any case, wada does not explicitly accuse the government. But still they give that condescending statement, as if Russia now has to become a country without criminals to win trust back. I think it is telling of their bias.

The extent of doping in Russia was far beyond anything seen elsewhere. So yes when you have a complete collapse in trust in a country they will have to earn their way back.

Post by threeseed » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:31 PM UTC

ezhik_ wrote: post #42

bsder wrote: post #22

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> Why the hell US government, US media and pro-US organizations (ex. WADA) says that the Russian government was behind all hacking attacks in the last 6 month (maybe year or even more)? It sounds like a broken joke from 60s... You are likely on solid ground accusing the US government of using Russia as an excuse. When you accuse WADA of being "pro-US"; however, you lose all your credibility.

Probably you should read a data, leaked from WADA about US sportsmen and the drugs they used before talking about my credibility.

Post by tptacek » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:35 PM UTC

supergirl wrote: post #55

conistonwater wrote: post #46

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They are not the organization that conducted the investigation.

You didn't get me. In this post they say the attack originated in Russia. I hope you don't think that automatically means the government did it. In any case, wada does not explicitly accuse the government. But still they give that condescending statement, as if Russia now has to become a country without criminals to win trust back. I think it is telling of their bias.

Post by k-mcgrady » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:36 PM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #60

Taek wrote: post #13

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That is ultimately too pessimistic. Security is a gradient, and there's a lot you can do make yourself both a smaller target, and a harder target. Compartmentalization is one of the strongest defense tools we have. For example, with the icloud leaks an attacker was able to gain access to all the data in a single strike. If it's true that Apple can no longer decrypt user's icloud data, an attacker now needs to hack pe…

Unless I am mistaken iCloud wasn't compromised. There was an issue with allowing brute force attacks which was fixed. But all the publicised hacks were to do with individual accounts being compromised.

Post by threeseed » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #67

threeseed wrote: post #60

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Unless I am mistaken iCloud wasn't compromised. There was an issue with allowing brute force attacks which was fixed. But all the publicised hacks were to do with individual accounts being compromised.

99% sure you're right. It was a mix of brute force and phishing iirc.