Oh for heaven’s sake, no one is launching nuclear weapons. Mutual assured destruction works because the other side also knows that millions (not billions - no one is nuking the countryside or uninvolved countries) could die.
Never mind that our defense spending is pretty close to what we spent during the peak of the cold war already, let’s be clear here: neither Russia nor China are the USSR. Neither one poses the kind of existential threat that the Soviet Union did.
We’re not going around the world trying to fight ideological wars against Russia or China. We don’t have to. We remain the world’s only superpower.
I’m not sure why you’d consider it jingoistic. Our foreign policy has been limited to economic sanctions which is hardly the aggressive foreign policy that jingoism refers to.
The only mistake WaPo made was saying that the grid itself was attacked. The language they used, at least in the version I saw, never said the hack on this laptop was perpetrated by the Russian government - just that the code itself is associated with a Russian hacking operation.
Further, they updated their article with the proper correction. That’s not fake news. That’s a mistake which they promptly corrected as any ethnical journalistic operation would.
Fake news is the intentional publishing of hoaxes, propaganda, misinformation and disinformation in order to deceive. There was nothing intentional about WaPo’s error.
Two independent security firms came forward evidence of Russian hacking as well as our own intelligence agencies. I can’t come up with a compelling reason why an independent security firm would lie about such a thing - especially considering all they had to lose if they made false allegations.
(stolen from the internets)
###FBI-DHS
- Grizzly Steppe: Russian Malicious Cyberactivity Dec. 29, 2016 (APT 28 is Fancy Bear and APT 29 is Cozy Bear)
###CrowdStrike
- Does a Bear Leak in the Woods? - video Dec. 8, 2016
- Rebooting Watergate: Tapping into the Democratic National Committee Jun. 17, 2016
- Shiny Object? Guccifer 2.0 and the DNC Breach Jun. 29, 2016
- What’s in a Name Server? Jul. 7, 2016
- Guccifer 2.0: the Man, the Myth, the Legend? Jul. 20, 2016
- Guccifer 2.0: All Roads Lead to Russia Jul. 26, 2016
- FANCY BEAR Has an (IT) Itch that They Can’t Scratch Jul. 29, 2016
- Does a BEAR Leak in the Woods? Aug. 12, 2016
- Russian Cyber Operations on Steroids Aug. 19, 2016
- Can a BEAR Fit Down a Rabbit Hole? Sep. 2, 2016
###Reports Connecting Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear to the Russian Government
- CrowdStrike: Use of Fancy Bear Android Malware in Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Units Dec. 22, 2016
- F-Secure: The Dukes: 7 Years of Russian Cyber Espionage Sep. 18, 2015 (The Dukes are Cozy Bear)
- FireEye: HAMMERTOSS: Stealthy Tactics Define a Russian Cyber Threat Group Jul. 29, 2015 (APT 29 is Cozy Bear)
- root9b: APT28 Targets Financial markets: zero day hashes released May 10, 2015 (APT 28 is Fancy Bear)
- FireEye: APT28: A Window into Russia’s Cyber Espionage Operations? Oct. 27, 2014 (APT 28 is Fancy Bear)
- FireEye: Case Study: APT28 Cybergroup Activity 2014 (APT 28 is Fancy Bear)
###Reports on APT 28 (Fancy Bear) and APT 29 (Cozy Bear)
- ESET: En Route with Sednit Part 1: Approaching the Target Oct. 20, 2016 (Sednit is Fancy Bear)
- ESET: En Route with Sednit Part 2: Observing the Comings and Goings Oct. 20, 2016 (Sednit is Fancy Bear)
- ESET: En Route with Sednit Part 3: A Mysterious Downloader Oct. 20, 2016 (Sednit is Fancy Bear)
- Recorded Future: Running for Office: Russian APT Toolkits Revealed Aug. 4, 2016
- Bitdefender: APT28 Under the Scope: A Journey into Exfiltrating Intelligence and Government Information Dec. 2015
- Microsoft: Security Intelligence Report Vol. 19 Jun. 2015 (APT 28/Strontium is Fancy Bear and APT 29 is Cozy Bear)
- Trend Micro: Operation Pawn Storm: Using Decoys to Evade Detection Oct. 22, 2014 (Sednit is Fancy Bear)
