On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 6:34:27 PM AEDT Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
For example, large numbers of e-mails relevant to the Hillary Clinton campaign were sucked down from Clinton Campaign head John Podesta -- but not in any clever or surprising fashion _at all_. Instead, it turns out that Podesta was relying on GMail(!), and got suckered into clicking on a phishing link that gave his GMail access credentials to the computer criminals.
I mention this because many people think the recent blow-ups resulted from a Putin state-intelligence plot to break into major USA political institutions' sensitive computer networks. The truth appears to be rather less dramatic and rather more pathetic.
Why do you think that an attack on low hanging fruit can't be state sponsored? Like any other attacker they will use the quickest and easiest ways to achieve their goals. The fact that an unsophisticated attack could be performed by many people and organisations and makes the origin more difficult to determine could be convenient for them. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/