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While the news just about who is responsible continues to change, one thing that can be confirmed; the Democratic National Committee’s server were hacked, and only time will tell what was and what was not stolen or accessed by hackers.
Initial reports that the DNC servers were hacked by Russian state sponsored hackers have now come into question, as have the validity of both several DNC spokespeople, and also the statements made by the cyber security firm brought in to assess and secure the DNC’s networks.
On Thursday, evidence was cited by committee officials that the hackers had primarily been concerned with accessing and stealing the files relating to all the Democratic research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The DNC went to some pains to make the case that no financial, donor or personal information appears had been accessed or stolen, which gave rise to the credible notion that the hack was more in tune with traditional espionage rather than the work of freelance cyber criminals.
The Russian government were quick to deny any involvement on a national level:
“I completely rule out a possibility that the government or the government bodies have been involved in this,” Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the Reuters news agency in Moscow.
Controversially, it now also seems that hackers had access to the DNC computer network for about a dozen months. According to the DNC, the hackers have all been expelled thanks to the work of cyber experts CrowdStrike.
“The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with,” DNC official, Mrs Wasserman Schultz, said. “When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately.”
However, it has now become apparent that not all is as it seems. Someone now claiming to the be the hacker has surfaced under the moniker Guccifer2, and perhaps the Russian government has little or nothing to do with the hack at all.
What now has transpired is that hackers might in fact just be one hacker:
“DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said no financial documents were compromised. Nonsense! Just look through the Democratic Party lists of donors!”
“Shame on CrowdStrike: Do you think I’ve been in the DNC’s networks for almost a year and saved only 2 documents? Do you really believe it?”
Only time will tell if Guccifer2 was behind the original hack or not, and if he was the only one…
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Facebook seems to be the social media platform that everyone loves to hate, yet everyone seems to use it. At least that’s the way it feels every time a new click bait headline floats around, insisting that Facebook is going to start charging a user fee, start selling the pictures of your four-year-old son, and every other iteration of a “news” article about the big bad platform.
Backing up, Facebook launched the Messenger app some time ago, and there was intense pressure to make users switch to sending messages in the mobile app version through the new app instead of going to the mobile site and clicking the little message balloon. Messenger was designed to help both users and the team whose job it is to magically make your every thought reach its intended recipient–for free.
Now, Facebook has launched a new app, Moments, and it’s got social media users up in arms once again. The headlines claim that Facebook is going to delete your photos if you don’t “switch” them over to the new Moments app, but again, that’s not actually the case.
Some time ago, Facebook allowed an opt-in feature for instant upload from your smartphone’s camera roll to a private album on your Facebook account. This basically amounted to free, unlimited cloud storage for your pictures, letting you snap a photo, shift it over to a private album, then delete it off your phone in order to free up space. The idea was that you could turn those photos into a Facebook or Instagram post later, as well as download them, send them over to a photo sharing site, order prints, or more.
Unfortunately, as we all know from our own camera phone behaviour, a lot of those photos never went anywhere else. Facebook has been footing the bill for storing its billion-plus users’ photos, and getting nothing from it. They’ve ever so politely asked that their users either sync these photos to the servers that power Moments, or delete them if they have no plans to do anything with them. Anyone who fails to courteously do so will find that the unsynced photos will disappear by July 7th.
It’s interesting how many people have taken the stance that this is yet another attempt by Facebook to “force” users to download their newest app. It begs the question: has social media become such a part of our lives that we see a company’s attempt to streamline its own free service as an infringement on our rights?
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