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Russians playing a dangerous Chess game with America...

Washington (CNN)—Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.

While the White House has said the breach only affected an unclassified system, that description belies the seriousness of the intrusion. The hackers had access to sensitive information such as real-time non-public details of the president's schedule. While such information is not classified, it is still highly sensitive and prized by foreign intelligence agencies, U.S. officials say.

The White House in October said it noticed suspicious activity in the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. The system has been shut down periodically to allow for security upgrades.

The FBI, Secret Service and U.S. intelligence agencies are all involved in investigating the breach, which they consider among the most sophisticated attacks ever launched against U.S. government systems. ​The intrusion was routed through computers around the world, as hackers often do to hide their tracks, but investigators found tell-tale codes and other markers that they believe point to hackers working for the Russian government.

National Security Council spokesman Mark Stroh didn't confirm the Russian hack, but he did say that "any such activity is something we take very seriously."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGy9TmTKsA

"In this case, as we made clear at the time, we took immediate measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity," he said. "As has been our position, we are not going to comment on [this] article's attribution to specific actors."



Neither the U.S. State Department nor the Russian Embassy immediately responded to a request for comment.

Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, said the White House's use of a separate system for classified information protected sensitive national security-related items from being obtained by hackers.

"We do not believe that our classified systems were compromised," Rhodes told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday.

"We're constantly updating our security measures on our unclassified system, but we're frankly told to act as if we need not put information that's sensitive on that system," he said. "In other words, if you're going to do something classified, you have to do it on one email system, one phone system. Frankly, you have to act as if information could be compromised if it's not on the classified system."

To get to the White House, the hackers first broke into the State Department, investigators believe.

The State Department computer system has been bedeviled by signs that despite efforts to lock them out, the Russian hackers have been able to reenter the system. One official says the Russian hackers have "owned" the State Department system for months and it is not clear the hackers have been fully eradicated from the system.

Related: What is spear fishing?

As in many hacks, investigators believe the White House intrusion began with a phishing email that was launched using a State Department email account that the hackers had taken over, according to the U.S. officials.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in a speech at an FBI cyberconference in January, warned government officials and private businesses to teach employees what "spear phishing" looks like.

"So many times, the Chinese and others get access to our systems just by pretending to be someone else and then asking for access, and someone gives it to them," Clapper said.

The ferocity of the Russian intrusions in recent months caught U.S. officials by surprise, leading to a reassessment of the cybersecurity threat as the U.S. and Russia increasingly confront each other over issues ranging from the Russian aggression in Ukraine to the U.S. military operations in Syria.

The attacks on the State and White House systems is one reason why Clapper told a Senate hearing in February that the "Russian cyberthreat is more severe than we have previously assessed."

The revelations about the State Department hacks also come amid controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business during her time in office. Critics say her private server likely was even less safe than the State system. The Russian breach is believed to have come after Clinton departed State.

But hackers have long made Clinton and her associates targets.

The website The Smoking Gun first reported in 2013 that a hacker known as Guccifer had broken into the AOL email of Sidney Blumenthal, a friend and advisor to the Clintons, and published emails Blumenthal sent to Hillary Clinton's private account. The emails included sensitive memos on foreign policy issues and were the first public revelation of the existence of Hillary Clinton's private email address​ now at the center of controversy: hdr22@clintonemail.com. The address is no longer in use.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/politics/how-russians-hacked-the-wh/index.html

harrysterol:
e too early to the call people names, u no the sleep?

oluwafemi113:
PDP now the opposition

Hmmm! PDP trying to cause confusion in other parties...

There was confusion in Delta State late on Monday as the camp of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Chief O’Tega Emerhor said that Chief Great Ogboru, the candidate of the Labour Party, had stepped down for the APC candidate.

An email from the Director, Media and Political Communication of Emerhor Campaign Organisation, Dr. Fred Oghenesivbe, said Ogboru made the decision in the overall interest of the Urhobo nation.

But the chairman of the Labour Party, Chief Tony Ezeagwu, denied the story saying Ogboru apart from campaigning at Bomadi Local Government Area on Monday, would also be in Asaba on Tuesday to woo voters.

Ezeagwu said the claim of Ogboru’s stepping down was not only mischievous, but a calculated attempt by the Emerhor camp to undermine the LP candidate’s prospect of winning the governorship election.

The email from Oghenesivbe said Ogboru stepped down after the intervention of some powerful Urhobo elders.

He said the Urhobo Progress Union had earlier set up a committee to persuade Ogboru to step down in the interest of the Urhobo nation in particular and Delta State in general.

http://www.punchng.com/news/confusion-in-delta-over-april-11-elections/

Truckpusher:
This Fulani midget should go and sit down after all his fellow Fulani will soon occupy Aso Rock and I'm still waiting for 1$ to equal 1 Naira

Wicked...


APC says NO to Tribalism...


We are all one...

APC Winning!!!


APC has come to stay...

barackodam:
coded01



try and bolden those subtopics and space them to ease reading

Noted!


Hope you are good!

Seun

Mynd44

Lalatisclala

Truckpusher

KingTom

Ishilove

Obinoscopy

Nigeria’s president-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, met with former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, on Tuesday.

This is the first time both leaders would be seen in public after the March 28 presidential election.

Obasanjo played a key role in the emergence of Buhari, as he received the campaign team of the then opposition party at his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta, Ogun State, despite complaints from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Although he did not openly campaign for Buhari, Obasanjo refused to support the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Buhari was in Lagos to campaign for Akinwunmi Ambode, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead Saturday’s election and had since left for Imo State to solicit support for Rochas Okorocha, governor of the state, who is seeking re-election.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/33635-buhari-obj-meet-in-lagos

GodblessNig247:
Let justice take its full course!

I Agree!


APC Reign has come to stay...

RaeMystix:
Thanks my lovey
Yeah!... I had to take a second look at your username, just to confirm. .

How are you?

PDP propaganda...


APC is winning!!!

Seun

Mynd44

Lalatisclala

Truckpusher

KingTom

Ishilove

Obinoscopy

•Protesters, security men block roads

•Banks, offices closed


The plan by the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly to begin the process of impeachment of the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, created a near total lockdown of the state, with protests and security presence crippling activities around the state.

On Tuesday morning, soldiers were on stop and search at the Post Office area of Ikere-Ekiti, while they also retained their presence in Itawure, in Efon Local Government Area, as well as the entry point to Ekiti State from Ikere.

There was also a roadblock mounted by protesters in Igede-Ekiti, while in Oye-Ekiti, the road leading to Ayede, Isan, Oloje and other communities and Kwara State, was also blocked by the protesters, who refused to clear the barricade when journalists requested that they do so.

Vehicles of travellers outside the state were gathering at the Oye roadblock while the angry youths made threats and asked every vehicle to depart.

Meanwhile, in Ado Ekiti, protest marches by different categories of people were witnessed with the protesters chanting against the APC lawmakers in the state.

The state House of Assembly complex remained locked with no activity, except for the heavy security presence provided by policemen and men of the Department of State Security.

Unconfirmed sources told the Nigerian Tribune at the House of Assembly road that some armed political thugs had a confrontation with the security operatives and that some of them were overpowered by the security agents and arrested.

A blue Toyota Hilux van with registration number AA 363 YEK, which had been driven into a ditch, and a demobilised Volkswagen Audi salon car, both at the CBN/Secretariat Road, the sources alleged, were vehicles allegedly brought by the thugs.

Aside Ado Ekiti, protests were also held in major towns like Efon Alaaye, Iworoko, Aisegba, Ikere, Ise, Ogotun Igbemo, against the attempt to boot Fayose out of office, thereby preventing human and vehicular movements for several hours, as all major roads leading to Ekiti were blocked.

Some SSS 3 students sitting for their school certificate examinations by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) outside the capital city could not get vehicles to convey them at the park.

Banks and other commercial concerns in the state were closed and businesses in various parts of the state remained paralysed.

In a related development, the state Head of Service, Dr Gbenga Faseluka and workers in the state, under the auspices of Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), besieged the assembly in protest and warned the lawmakers against plunging the state into violence.

The organised labour, in another statement signed by NLC secretary, Mr Ade Obatoye; TUC secretary, Mr Joseph Adebayo and the JNC secretary, Mr Oladele Ayodeji, enjoined the entire Ekiti workforce to see the present development as “a way of fomenting trouble in the state.”

Also, the people of Igbemo Ekiti, led by Chief Agamago Adetunji, had, during a solidarity visit to the governor, said “we are solidly behind you. Ekiti people elected you to be their leader and no power under the earth can remove you.

“We are praying for you and assuring you that you will win all the 26 assembly seats during Saturday’s polls.”

The deputy governor, Dr Kolapo Olusola, who responded on behalf of the governor, likened the APC lawmakers to the biblical war of Egypt against the people of Israel, while he expressed confidence that the governor would triumph over his enemies.

“This Egyptian war led by APC will be defeated. Governor Fayose did not elect himself, but you put him there. This is just a passage and it will go by the grace of God.

“I want to assure you that we will see no more of this war against an anointed man in few days’ time,” the deputy governor boasted.

he said.

Fayose can’t escape impeachment —Lawmakers

As the crisis between Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers festers, the latter, on Tuesday, in Osogbo, Osun State, said no amount of intimidation and threat from the governor can stop his impending impeachment by the legislature.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday evening in Osogbo, Osun State capital, the majority leader of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Honourable Churchill Adedipe ,said the legislature would pursue the impeachment of the governor to a logical conclusion.

Adedipe, who was flanked by the Speaker of the assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin and other members of G-19 lawmakers, lamented that their move to gain entry into Ekiti on Tuesday was thwarted by military personnel, who, he alleged, took order from the Brigade Commander, 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, General Aliyu Momoh.

According to him, the speaker, Dr Ominrin and other APC lawmakers had already fixed their sitting for Tuesday to continue investigation into allegations of constitutional breaches levelled against Governor Fayose.

Adedipe explained that the vehicle conveying the lawmakers was, however, prevented from entering Ekiti at Itawure, a town about 40 minutes drive to Ado Ekiti, by heavily armed soldiers.

He lamented that “for over two hours, the soldiers prevented us from proceeding to Ado Ekiti,” adding that information reaching some of them from Ado Ekiti indicated that the premises of the assembly had been flooded with thugs.

Adedipe added that “before we decided to move to Ado Ekiti, we wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Police that we were coming to Ado. The treatment meted to us today was actually uncalled for. It is absurd.

“We the 19 lawmakers are saying that you can only delay the cause of justice, you cannot run away from it.

“We are going to ensure the logical conclusion of what we have started. We are calling on Nigerians and Ekiti people to support us and save us from undue attack from Fayose. We would not be deterred.”

Call APC members in Ekiti to order, Adeyeye tells Buhari

MINISTER of State for Works, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, has called on the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to call All Progressives Congress (APC) members in Ekiti State to order, before they truncate democracy in the country.

The minister, who described the APC desperation to seize power in Ekiti State through the backdoor as a dangerous trend, added that the APC members in the Ekiti State House of Assembly were capitalising on Buhari’s victory to cause crisis in the state.

He said the APC should stop behaving like party of bad losers.

“In 1999, Professor Tunde Adeniran of the PDP lost to

Chief Niyi Adebayo, Adeniran congratulated the winner. He did not go to court.

“It was in 2003 that Adebayo lost to Governor Ayodele Fayose that they went to the tribunal.

“Also, when Chief Segun Oni won election in 2007, these same APC people made Ekiti ungovernable for him.

“In 2011 when Fayose contested senatorial election and lost to Senator Babafemi Ojudu, he did not go to court. None of the PDP National Assembly candidates that lost in 2011 went to court.

“Since they lost the governorship to the PDP nine months ago, they have refused to accept defeat. It was as a result of this desperation to steal Ekiti people’s mandate that Chief Omolafe Aderiye was killed.

“Today again, they killed Modupe Olaya in Efon-Alaaye and one wonders why these APC people derive joy in shedding blood of innocent Ekiti sons and daughters.

“Why must there be crisis in Ekiti each time the APC elements lose power to the PDP?

“General Buhari must not let these desperate APC members in Ekiti State drag his name and reputation in the mud by using his name to cause chaos,” he said.

Security men take over routes to Ekiti secretariat, assembly

ARMED security men, on Tuesday, barricaded all roads leading to the Ekiti State secretariat, the building that houses the state House of Assembly.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that civil servants could not get to their offices as they were turned back by the security men.

The workers returned home as they could not confront the combined force of armed policemen and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

The secretariat complex was blocked by armoured tank and other security patrol vehicles.

An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Funsho Adegboye, led a team of security men that took over the secretariat and the House of Assembly complex.

Adegboye advised a group of protesters that converged at the legislative building to return home until peace returned to the state.

He told the labour leaders to caution their members so that the purported peaceful protest would not be hijacked by miscreants.

The Assistant Secretary-General of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Femi Adebo, said members of the union were only out to stage a peaceful protest in support of the present administration.

“Governor Fayose assumed office less than six months ago and we, the civil servants in the state, have not seen anything wrong that could warrant his impeachment.

“Our peaceful protest this morning is to tell the whole world that all those rumours against Fayose are not true.

“The politicians must not incite the state civil servants against the government, they must allow peace to reign in Ekiti,” Adebo said.

The State Head of Service, Dr Gbenga Faseluka, had, before the rally, urged them to ensure that the protest was peaceful.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/33638-impeachment-crisis-criples-ekiti

eyoniggar:
I gork, and its understandable, but he even better sef, it is medically known that after a woman gives birth,
the vagina isnt straffable until after 6 weeks, enough time for Pique to stay in form A big plus this is.

Dr. Eyoniggar I hail oh...

homesteady:
soo happy to be back! Who missed me? everybody!
My subscription got finished since last week, and it was towards end of the month - pocket money go soon finish!

Madrid won 9-1! cheii, there is trouble oh! Well it depends on how barca deals with the trouble!

Mathieu saved our asses! thank GOD! and saw a highlight of the match where Neymar missed a very good chance! issiorite!

Welcome back...

RaeMystix:
#1 and 2 are just the products and lack of proper up bringing; still they aren't as bad as that of #3 . That woman ought to be have been tranquilized on sight, and taken straight to the closest psych ward, cos imagine that # of lbs/kg on that head?. Its simply abnormal.


Just realized.....You quoted me..

I like your sense of judgment...


Although, as for your surprise!

TheGoodJoe:

Our transfer Market policy killed us. I believe Iheanacho would have been an ideal replacement for Yaya Toure if he was given the chance. How come Pellegrini and co. did not fight for Nacho's work permit. They did not even apply. Instead, they sent him to America to train under an MLS team. They signed Lampard who was nothing but a squad player.

Why spend so much on Mangala when we had Rekik who was doing well on loan for PSV. Then Mangala ended up on the bench.

The Mangala money would have gotten Brahimi or Hector Herrera. The transfers did not help the team. And, those guys gave contract extensions to players over 30 yrs.

Unfortunately, this is what we experience oh...


Only if he was a white dude...

Anonimi how far na?

coogar:
you did well.....
nice to know your data analysis is still spot on. which way now, ibime? are you going to join asari dokubo's militia group in the niger-delta?

Wicked!!!

coogar:
@chic2pimp.

have you ever seen this footage on skynews or skysports?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsN6bWZAlI

that's the manchester derby late last year. hooliganism hasn't stopped one bit in english football. british media just hide it from the mainstream so as not to ruin the brand.

Coogar na you hold phone?


Which kan camera phone be that? Palasa!

RaeMystix:
#3 must have mental issues

Honestly is that real?


What about #1?

TheGoodJoe:

That idea is gone. I just hope Pellegrini can pick up from the Manchester Derby and give us a seven game winning streak. But, we have dropped so much points that it seems like a pipe dream.

My broda... Nations Cup actually affected Man City...Since Yaya left everything crumbled...

He should as well shun the idea of winning the EPL...

Odunharry:
liverpool arsenal and united coming to destroy the bridge

Too much of FM isn't good...