August 18, 2016
HILLARY HAD THE ONLY SECURE SERVER:
It Looks Like the NSA Was Hacked. (Jeremy Stahl, 8/18/16, Slate)
Information wants to be free.On Saturday, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers sent notices to media outlets about its purported hack of the Equation Group, an organization that was exposed last year by Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab as likely one of the world's most sophisticated hacking collectives. As Foreign Policy wrote, Kaspersky Lab called Equation Group "a threat actor that surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques." Without directly calling Equation Group an NSA organization, Kaspersky linked the group to the intelligence agency and pointed to involvement with the Stuxnet malware software that was widely believed to be a U.S.-Israeli cyberattack against Iran's nuclear program.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 18, 2016 12:31 PM
