Cybersecurity Expert Is Convinced Russia Was Behind DNC Hacking
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January 4, 20174:59 AM ET
Donald Trump has said the source of the Democratic Party hack is hard to prove. Cybersecurity expert Matt Tait was initially skeptical, but tells David Greene he is sure now the culprit was Russia.
Ouch - when a couple of hours ago the realization i had drifted into a Donald Trump declared position on the email leak some synapses actually puked .. that noted, in an earlier one by the originally skeptic Matt Tait of the above, he said
Schneier on Security Blog > Russian Hack of the DNC Amazingly enough, the preponderance of the evidence points to Russia as the source of the DNC leak. I was going to summarize the evidence, but Thomas Rid did a great job here. Much of that is based on June's forensic analysis by Crowdstrike, which I wrote about here. More analysis here. Jack Goldsmith discusses the political implications. The FBI is investigating. It's not unreasonable to expect the NSA has some additional intelligence on this attack, similarly to what they had on the North Korea attack on Sony. EDITED TO ADD (7/27): More on the FBI's investigation. Another summary of the evidence pointing to Russia. Posted on July 26, 2016 at 1:40 PM https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/russian_hack_of.html