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Attkisson releases video of computer hacking, 2012 Benghazi files deletion
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson released video Friday of her Benghazi files being systematically deleted from her computer in 2012, alleging that government agencies were responsible for the crime.
Just the Benghazi files, not her recipes, her love notes, or her pictures of her trip to Vancouver.
Politico released cellphone video that Ms. Attkisson took in the moments after she lost control of the machine. "I'm not touching it. It's just deleting everything. I'm not touching it. Stop! Stop!" she says in the video as sections of her work disappears.
That's pretty daggone interesting. We had the very same thing happen on Rantburg. It was in 2002 or 2003 -- getting old, can't remember things anymore. What was I saying? -- and I sat there and watched an entire day of the 'Burg disappear one by one. That was in the days the database was Microsoft Access and I didn't do regular backups. I ended up restoring the articles from a copy I had open. We only had the front page back then.
A firm hired by CBS to examine Ms. Attkisson's computer in 2013 concluded that it had been tampered with by an unknown third party.
That was the impetus for Rantburg to switch databases. Close examination showed we had missing records here and there. I switched from Access to Borland and the problem continued. Then I tried switching to Oracle, which wasn't suitable because of the way it handles text files. Then the whole thing traveled to MySQL and we switched from Windows Server to Debian. I knew squat about Linux at the time; I'd worked with Unix before, but that was before there was a www. But that was the point where we quit losing records.
"A cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News has determined through forensic analysis that Sharyl Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012," CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said in June, The Washington Post reported. "Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson's accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data," she added.
Bet she was using a windows system. There used to be a fairly simple hack to get into the Windows folder and retrieve the passwords -- we're talkin' script kiddie simple. It's in a book I had that I threw away years ago. Once they had her login and password they could Remote Desktop and she could say goodbye to her data.
The award-winning news hound left CBS in March after almost 20 years, citing a bias at the paper regarding stories critical of the White House.

In her new book "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington," the news hound said she had her computer checked out by a source she refers to as "Number One." The individual concluded that what was done to her computer was "worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn't have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America."
Posted by: Fred 2014-11-02
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