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Ongoing Hacker Attack: German Parliament May Need to Replace Whole IT-Infrastructure

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the computers-going-cheap? dept.

sudo rm -rf writes:

Amongst other news outlets, CIO reports on a hacker attack on the German parliament (Bundestag) that occured four weeks ago and is still ongoing:

Trojans introduced to the Bundestag network are still working and are still sending data from the internal network to an unknown destination, several anonymous parliament sources told German publication Der Spiegel.[German]
All software and hardware in the German parliamentary network might need to be replaced[1]. More than four weeks after a cyberattack, the government hasn't managed to erase spyware from the system, according to a news report.

Some MPs have concerns to call experts from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, for help, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process, a possible violation of the principles of Separation of Powers.

[1] Apparently about 20.000 machines are affected

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Sunday June 14 2015, @12:04AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday June 14 2015, @12:04AM (#195919) Journal

    Try to grab your text by opening the "view source" window. Search for something that you wrote. If that fails then do the hacker trick by searching the process or kernel memory for any phrase you wrote. Using "grep" on the browser cache files may also work.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Monday June 15 2015, @12:40AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday June 15 2015, @12:40AM (#196300) Journal

    To grab your post out of memory one could using "fairly substantial blurb of" as a marker:

    a) Go to "View" on the toolbar and then select "View source" in the menu. Then search that window for "fairly substantial blurb of".

    b) Change settings to a proxy server (127.0.0.1 12345) and make something listen on that proxy port and press retry: nc -l -p 12345 | tee dump.html Then search "dump.html" for "fairly substantial blurb of".

    c) Memory method: grep -ai "fairly substantial blurb of" /dev/mem | more (Linux as root)

    d) Cache files: grep -aiR "Ask Toolbar Now Marked" /home/guest/.browser/

    If your lucky pressing the back button MAY work or clear your submission. But the above methods works after you messed up. They ain't pretty but they might save the day.