LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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You are aware, or should be of the massive cyber attack that started on Friday.

The malicious software, or malware, was apparently stolen from the National Security Administration’s arsenal of cyberweapons and put to use by unknown hackers. It began proliferating quickly on Friday, and by Sunday, the attack had afflicted 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, according to Europol, the European Union’s police agency.

Security experts described the attacks as the digital equivalent of a perfect storm. They began with a simple phishing email, similar to the one Russian hackers used in the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other targets last year.


They then quickly spread through victims’ systems using a hacking method that the N.S.A. is believed to have developed as part of its arsenal of cyberweapons. And finally, they encrypted the computer systems of the victims, locking them out of critical data, including patient records in Britain.

THE REASON JOHN PODESTAS EMAIL WAS HACKED IS HIS UTTER STUPIDITY AND CARELESSNESS. THAT ENABLED THE HACKERS TO HACK THE DNC SYSTEM! PODESTA THEN SENT CLINTON AN EMAIL AND THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK.
SO BLAME ALL THE EMAIL PROBLEMS ON STUPID JOHN PODESTA! BUT IF PODESTA HAD BEEN AN HONEST MAN THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY IMMICRAMITING EVIDENCE FOUND!


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The subject line warns, "Someone has your password" and the body of the message says "someone" in Ukraine tried, but was stopped, from signing into Podesta's account.

"You should change your password immediately," the email warns. The words "CHANGE PASSWORD" then appear -- inviting Podesta to click on them -- as a way to do just that.

But the address did not link to a secure Google web page, instead directing the user blindly via bit.ly, a service used to shorten or conceal web addresses.

According to the cyber security company SecureWorks, the link used in the Podesta email was clicked two times. If his information was entered into a form on the landing site -- potentially run by a hacker -- the floodgates could have opened right there.

Podesta was not the only Clinton campaign staffer targeted, SecureWorks found.

"We saw 108 email addresses targeted and we know that 20 of the links that were sent to those individuals were clicked," Phil Burdette, a senior security researcher at the firm, told CNN on Friday. There were 213 similar bit.ly links created, he said, but because there were duplicates it is likely the same accounts received multiple phishing messages.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/phishing-email-hack-john-podesta-hillary-clinton-wikileaks/index.html