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[Blue_Tires]

Russia 'tried to hack MH17 inquiry system'

The Hague (AFP) - Russian spies likely tried to hack into the Dutch Safety Board's computer systems to access a sensitive final report into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, experts said Friday.

The cyberattacks were revealed by security experts Trend Micro which blamed a shadowy group dubbed Operation Pawn Storm, "an active economic and political cyber-espionage operation" that has targeted the White House and NATO in the past.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch board, which led the investigation into how Malaysia Airlines flight came down in July 2014 over war-torn Ukraine, confirmed the board had detected the attacks.

But there was "no evidence" that anyone "was successful in the attempt," spokeswoman Sara Vernooij told AFP.

She declined however to reveal "how and by whom" the attacks were carried out.

Trend Micro Friday blamed Operation Pawn Storm for a "cyber-espionage operation before and after" the publication on October 13 of the board's detailed report.

The "coordinated attack from several sides was launched to gain unauthorised access to sensitive material of the investigation conducted by Dutch, Malaysian, Australian, Belgian, and Ukrainian authorities," the Tokyo-based company said in a statement.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/russia-tried-hack-mh17-inquiry-system-143651319.html


I'm old enough to remember when Robert Parry was constantly accusing the U.S. of trying to subvert the investigation

[Rex]

1. Some of the stuff he dug up on the RWing is great material.

The Reagan administration pulled right-wing media executives Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife into a CIA-organized “perception management” operation which aimed Cold War-style propaganda at the American people in the 1980s, according to declassified U.S. government records.

Although some records relating to Murdoch remain classified, several documents that have been released indicate that he and billionaire Scaife were considered sources of financial and other support for President Ronald Reagan’s hard-line Central American policies, including the CIA’s covert war in Nicaragua.

A driving force behind creation of Reagan’s extraordinary propaganda bureaucracy was CIA Director William Casey who dispatched the CIA’s top covert action specialist, Walter Raymond Jr., to the National Security Council to oversee the project. According to the documents, Murdoch was brought into the operation in 1983 – when he was still an Australian citizen and his media empire was much smaller than it is today.

http://www.alternet.org/world/how-rupert-murdochs-media-empire-benefited-selling-reagans-cia-propaganda

[newfie11]

2. Could have been US or Russia!

Who the hell knows what the CIA is doing. Not sure anyone controls them.

[Blue_Tires]

3. LOL...kick

So Robert Parry's wingnuttery on MH17 can get a hundred replies, and I can't get a half-dozen?

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. You mad, bro?

[Blue_Tires]

7. Why in the name of Christ would I ever be mad?

Despite the hate from DU, I was indisputably correct about MH17 from the start, and my two favorite teams are playing in the fall classic...

I merely thought DUers would enjoy discussing this story as much as they have Parry's agitprop...You know, since my story is actually real and whatnot

[SidDithers]

5. DU rec...

Parry is nothing more than a Putin stenographer.

But the Putin bootlickers sure do love him.

Sid

[ismnotwasm]

6. K&R

Not surprising.