Global Security, Privacy, & Risk Management

Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server Confirmed Hacked by the Chinese! (yes that was clickbait) September 30, 2015

UPDATE– Yesterday I posted this “article” to demonstrate just how easy it is to convince people to click on malicious links.  Even with the end of the article saying that it was a spoof, there were still ~25% of readers (24 out of the first 95) who clicked on the link.   The point was simply to demonstrate that social engineering is alive and well and very easy to conduct.  The idea that Hillary’s private email was ‘secure’ is a preposterous claim.  Thanks for everyone who read this.

While denying that there is any evidence of her private email server being hacked…The Secret Service just released a report that proves Hillary Clinton’s private email server was hacked repeatedly by China, Russia and Iran using a common “spear fishing method’ known as a ‘drive by infection’. This is a common method used by the Chinese, Russians, Iranians and others to initiate an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack. Click here to read the official government report!

OK..if you clicked on the link (I am logging this) it shows just how easy it is to convince someone to invite a hacker. Not trying to embarrass anyone but trying to show how asinine it is to believe that a private email server maintained without any security acontrols can be ‘secure’ from professional, dedicated cyber attackers.  Quite simply…it cannot be adequately secured.   Clinton’s camp has claimed that the Russians tried 5 times to “hack” her email system yet there is “no evidence” it was breached.  Let me shed some light on this situation…it was hacked…repeatedly…by just about everyone.