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Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they werent expecting.The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it existsthe second greatest is that it persists. Every so often were reminded that bad actors wield great skill and have little conscience about the harm they inflict on the worlds digital nervous system. They invent viruses, botnets, and sundry species of malware. Theres good money to be made deflecting these incursions. But a small, tightly-knit community of computer scientists who pursue such worksome at cyber-security firms, some in academia, some with close ties to three-letter federal agenciesis also spurred by a sense of shared idealism and considers itself the benevolent posse that chases off the rogues and rogue states that try to purloin sensitive data and infect the Internet with their bugs. Were the Union of Concerned Nerds, in the wry formulation of the Indiana University computer scientist L. Jean Camp.
In late spring, this community of malware hunters placed itself in a high state of alarm. Word arrived that Russian hackers had infiltrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee, an attack persuasively detailed by the respected cyber-security firm CrowdStrike. The computer scientists posited a logical hypothesis, which they set out to rigorously test: If the Russians were worming their way into the DNC, they might very well be attacking other entities central to the presidential campaign, including Donald Trumps many servers. We wanted to help defend both campaigns, because we wanted to preserve the integrity of the election, says one of the academics, who works at a university that asked him not to speak with reporters because of the sensitive nature of his work.
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In late July, one of these scientistswho asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their datafound what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstancea surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way, he wrote in his notes. He couldnt quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.
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The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasnt the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversationconversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasnt an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
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Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia? (Original Post)
Denzil_DC
Oct 2016
OP
swag
(26,487 posts)1. The graph in the article about 2/3rd the way down is worth a look.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)3. too hot for M$M (GOP approved news) before election. IF he wins, much too hot, after.