Ukrainian Officials' Phones Targeted By Hackers (reuters.com) 34
The phones of Ukrainian officials have been targeted by hackers as Russia pursues its invasion of Ukraine, a senior cybersecurity official said Monday. Reuters: Victor Zhora, the deputy head of Ukraine's State Special Communications Service, said that phones being used by the country's public servants had come under sustained targeting. "We see a lot of attempts to hack Ukrainian officials' phones, mainly with the spreading of malware," Zhora told journalists at an online news conference meant to mark the 100 days since Russian forces poured across the border. Zhora said his service had, so far, not seen any evidence that Ukrainian devices had been compromised. The hacking of government leaders' devices crept up the international agenda following a cascade of revelations last year around the how phones used by presidents, ministers, and other government officials had been targeted or compromised.
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Putin has shown he'll keep on eating others' land if nobody opposes him. He'll next try Nato countries if he keeps getting the keys to doors, at which stage we are then pulled in directly.
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They are a fledgling democracy. Democracies need to stick together or else be eaten by dictators. Didn't we have similar discussions 60+ years ago as the Soviet Union was gobbling up countries?
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On 22 February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Viktor Yanukovych. That was only 8 years ago. What did anyone expect from The US in 1784, especially compared to all the countries in The World at the time? The US was still getting help from France in 1783 [wikipedia.org] who were Britain's enemy also. The US also received support from The Dutch Republ
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Which has nothing to do with the current situation. Don't forget we're getting out of a 20-year war in Afghanistan over "terrorism" that did absolutely nothing despite trillions of dollars and bipartisan support.
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Unlike Afg, we don't have troops there.
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As a foreigner myself, seeing Biden's Democrats called "leftists" is confusing. They're further right than the conservative party in my country.
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Just so you know, you aren't being downvoted for posting a provocative, antiestablishment political opinion. Most likely it's because you are factually incorrect.
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Just so you know, you aren't being downvoted for posting a provocative, antiestablishment political opinion. Most likely it's because you are factually incorrect.
To borrow a phrase, they weren't even wrong. It's simply their typical deflection, claiming it's those other people doing the bad thing while in reality, they're the ones doing the deed.
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You may also of heard of the Southern Strategy? That was how Nixon used American racism to win the presidency in 1968.
Tell me again about ignorance.
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Still are, actually.
The Ds try to tell you that the parties swapped positions. What actually happened is they moved the goal posts.
R voters were always about civil rights as letting everybody support themselves and the government being color-blind, as MLK Jr. promoted. The D establishment and media tried to redefine "supporting civil rights" as stealing from the "privileged" classes to give handouts to the "downtrodden", buying votes
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We've heard of Russian Generals being targeted by the use of insecure communications and cell phones. I guess Russia is now figuring out that two can play the game?
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We've heard of Russian Generals being targeted by the use of insecure communications and cell phones. I guess Russia is now figuring out that two can play the game?
Russia has been targetting Ukrainian officials since day one. It's why they sent several hit squads after Zelensky [dailymail.co.uk] during the early days of the invasion and, in the case of Hostomel, killed the mayor of the city [cnn.com]. A few other officials in towns and cities have been targeted, either imprisoned or killed. This is nothing new.
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I'm still waiting for Putin to fall over dead from cancer. [newsweek.com] Or did he survive a coup [businessinsider.com] or something like that? I can never get this propaganda straight. We need scary poppins [youtube.com] to tell us what's real!!!
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Ukraine has been a mess for longer than that. The Yanukovych government was a bunch of corrupt, populist goons trying to feather their own nests. There hasnâ(TM)t been a Ukraine government that wasnâ(TM)t driven primarily by self-interest in at least twenty years.
I do believe US sabre rattling and talk of "containing" Russia hasn't helped. Russia will look out for their own interests. They want access to ice-free ports, they want a market for their gas and oil, they want a buffer against the n
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I'm not one to blindly trust the US government but so far it seems like you're just doing a piss-poor job of muddying the waters with a little whataboutism thrown in. So where's the evidence of these claims?
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We were never told about those because there's no sign that any of them happened, accept in what seem to be Russian bot postings.
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In Vietnam the downed American pilots were treated as "war criminals" and exposed to many propaganda efforts as well as advanced torture. One time the prisoners knew they were going to be marched out and one got hopeful talking about a possible parade for their release . As they were marched through the village, the locals beat the crap out of them in a gauntlet and they were hurt badly and marched back to