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By Erik Wemple,
June 14, 2013
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.
That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:
“A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.
(Excerpt)
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CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
Now why would the DOJ issue a response regarding the hacking of Ms. Attkisson's computers? I wonder if her phones and those of her family were also tapped too?
By Erik Wemple,
June 14, 2013
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.
That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:
“A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
Now why would the DOJ issue a response regarding the hacking of Ms. Attkisson's computers? I wonder if her phones and those of her family were also tapped too?
Why on earth didn't you post this story breaking news? It certainly would get more activity there.By Erik Wemple,
June 14, 2013
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.
That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:
“A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
Now why would the DOJ issue a response regarding the hacking of Ms. Attkisson's computers? I wonder if her phones and those of her family were also tapped too?
CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson revealed in May that her computer had been compromised. When asked about the situation, CBS News responded with a statement that it was conducting an investigation.That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair:
A cyber security firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012. Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.
This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.
CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.
The Attkisson-computer story surfaced when Attkisson appeared on a Philadelphia radio program amid the news about the Justice Department’s snooping on reporters. WPHT 1210 host Chris Stigall asked Attkisson whether she’d been the victim of any such tactics. She responded, “Well, um, I’m not ready to fully speak publicly about some things that have affected me because I’m trying to be methodical and careful about what I say, but there has been an issue in my house and there’s been an issue with my computers that’s gone on for quite a long time that we’re looking into.”
The CBS News reporter was then asked whether her issue related to the experience of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who’d been the target of Justice Department snooping. She responded: “Well, I don’t know details of his — I only know what I’ve read but I think there could be some relationship between these types of things and what’s happened to me.”
The Justice Department issued this statement not long after Attkisson’s claims:
"To our knowledge, the Justice Department has never compromised Ms. Attkisson’s computers, or otherwise sought any information from or concerning any telephone, computer, or other media device she may own or use."
Why on earth didn't you post this story breaking news? It certainly would get more activity there.
She mentioned that her computers at home were also involved in this.
This was about the time she was reporting on Benghazi. Apparently this was a hack with a high level of sophistication.
So..... who might that be?
Beside the point, why don't you respond to the content, rather than the placement of the article? If the powers that be care to move it to "Breaking News" let them.
The intrusions were detected in December, when Attkisson was reporting almost exclusively on the government’s response to the terrorist attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. The attack on Sept. 11, 2012, killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. Attkisson has previously investigated the Department of Justice’s gun-tracking operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
Attkisson said she had noticed unusual activity in her CBS-issued laptop and her home computer, such as dormant computers spontaneously “waking up” at odd hours. The unusual activity, which also had included disruptions on her home phone line, predate the December 2012 breach that CBS confirmed.
She said in an interview Friday that she was “outraged” by the breach, which did not appear to be aimed at extracting personal financial information.
“This wasn’t any ordinary malware of a phishing attempt,” that is, an effort to gain personal information, she said. “I assume someone wanted to see what I was working on.”
“The privacy and security of every American citizen in his own home, not to mention the work of a journalist, is sacrosanct. The idea that an unknown party could come into your home electronically is upsetting and disturbing. . . . People should be disturbed that a reporter would be spied on and intimidated this way. I do feel that this was an attempt to make me feel intimidated.”
I think it's significant news that her computer was tampered with and this story is not suitable for a partisan debate. let's get this investigated and let the chips fall where they fall. I am not interested playing partisan politics on this story.
The Justice Department has issued a categorical denial that they had anything to do with the breach. But whether or not you’re inclined to believe them, it’s far more likely that Atkisson’s computer was compromised by much more prosaic means, the same way millions of other computers have been hacked — by a virus or a worm that gained access via Atkisson’s own insecure practices.".
CBS News: Multiple Breaches of Sharyl Attkisson's Computer - Little Green Footballs,
Come on Pete, It became partisan when the first shoes were dropped about the spying on the AP and Jim Rosen with Eric Holder the center of the controversy. This is the same issue. Were warrants issued or as I suggested a criminal undercover operation? Shouldn't we call for an in depth investigation covering all three incidents bypassing Holder's stonewalling?
I think it's significant news that her computer was tampered with and this story is not suitable for a partisan debate. let's get this investigated and let the chips fall where they fall. I am not interested playing partisan politics on this story.
I think it's significant news that her computer was tampered with and this story is not suitable for a partisan debate. let's get this investigated and let the chips fall where they fall. I am not interested playing partisan politics on this story.
Of course, with this administration such a denial could mean they had nothing to do with it, but could just as easily mean that they simply chose to provide "the least untruthful answer" regarding their criminal intrusion.The Justice Department has issued a categorical denial that they had anything to do with the breach.
Could be that she was hacked because someone was dying to know who got who on the Secret Santa list... but I sort of doubt itI think the crux of the question is, what did the hacker get out of accessing her computer? From there, perhaps we could make an educated guess as to just who that person was.
LGF thinks it's just a coincidence, then. Well...
It doesn't look like Johnson (of LGF) read the report. The description of the attack doesn't fit a virus or worm.
CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson's computer was hacked by "an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions," confirming Attkisson's previous revelation of the hacking.
CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said that a cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News "has determined through forensic analysis" that "Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012."
Here is what the report said:
Eugene H. Spafford, a Purdue University professor and specialist in computer security, said that Attkisson’s initial statements about computer intrusions left open a wide field of possibilities, from viruses to botnet activity to acquaintances to criminal gangs to the government. The Erik Wemple Blog asked Spafford for his take after looking over the CBS News statement. “The details given are too sparse to really be able to say anything new,” he responded.
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