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from the the-truth-is-in-the-bits-and-bytes dept.
Dan Wright and Joanne Leon of Shadowproof interview cybersecurity expert Jeffrey Carr about Crowdstrike's controversial claims on successfully identifying Russia as the actor that hacked the Democratic National Committee:
The evidence has always been thin despite U.S. intelligence agencies ultimately supporting the claim.
Carr discusses Crowdstrike's history of bad calls, including having to recently rewrite a report on alleged Russian hacking in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government as well as other cybersecurity experts heavily disputed Crowdstrikes[sic] initial claims.
[...] For firms like Crowdstrike, there's no financial downside in pretending to be able to attribute a hack as the nature of cyber makes it hard to prove or disprove an attribution. Additionally, each report serves as marketing material for future clients.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday April 17 2017, @05:09PM
Wait what, Seth Rich worked for the Russians? It seems not and he was punished and its all over now.
as the nature of cyber makes it hard to prove or disprove an attribution
Uh yeah.