Russian spies reportedly used SolarWinds hack to steal US counterintelligence details Russia's SVR spy agency made off with information about US counterintelligence investigations in the wake of the SolarWinds hack, according to people familiar with the American government cleanup operation. The alarming snippet was reported by financial newswire Reuters. The SVR was named and shamed in April by Britain and the …
We see all those posts about the Russians breaking into countries worldwide ... so are they so much smarter and better at hacking than the rest of the world? Or are other counties doing the same thing but not getting caught at it because they are smarter and better at hacking than the Russians?
I have a solution to all these problems ... but El Reg is still not giving me a pair of wire-cutters icon to demonstrate Internet Security.
Russians breaking into countries worldwide
If engineers don't have an environment to thrive, they can harbour feelings of envy that can be amplified with right propaganda - for example, it's the fault of the West that they live like that etc.
Those people then can use their talents to channel that anger and hope they can score some extra money and lift themselves and their family.
The talent in the West does not have such incentive to go rogue, because they can make relatively good living.
However, one can fear that increasingly hostile environment for small business, anti-self employment agendas, unfair taxation, increased cost of living may push some people over the edge on the West too.
Engineers see how much wealth is produced with their sweat, but that wealth is not shared back and they may want to knock the chessboard.
The thing is, some people instinctively don't want to be crooks or vandals, even if they are poor. For others, regardless of personal wealth, it is sport, and the more blood the better.
My guess is that you are making excuses to justify either what you do, or what you would like to do if you had the opportunity.
Maybe I'm wrong. Would you care to talk a little more about yourself?
In case you haven't noticed, the whole Russia-Gate fake just blew up. Clinton's campaign lawyer is being indicted for making-up the whole caboose.
Looks like somebody wants to join him in his cell. :-)
You're talking about an indictment brought by Durham, the special prosecutor assigned by Barr (Trump's attorney general), as a parting gift to people trying to hold Trump accountable. I doubt that has blown anything up.
And this has exactly what to do with Solarwinds?
Quote: ".....speaking off the record insisted that the Orion compromise had minimal effect on the UK....."
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Well, there are at least three ways to interpret this claim:
1. It's a lie
2. Foreign snoops don't think that anything in the UK is worth stealing
3. All of the above
Just saying!!
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