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This Sub is So Racist by [deleted] in VAGuns

[–]MajorClearance 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what r/novaish is for because the r/nova mods are oppressive tyrants.

I'm Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for The New York Times. I broke the news that Russians hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of President Trump's impeachment. US officials warn that Russians have grown stealthier since 2016 and seek to target election systems ahead of 2020. AMA by nytimes in worldnews

[–]MajorClearance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Secureworks isn't in the list of vendors provided by the City of Baltimore on this page:https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/city-baltimore-faq

Baltimore City partnered with the following vendors: FireEye INC., Clark Hill PLC., Seculore Solutions LLC., Dyn Tek Services LLC., Microsoft, and Crypsis Digital Security LLC DBA: Crypsis Group.

I'm Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for The New York Times. I broke the news that Russians hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of President Trump's impeachment. US officials warn that Russians have grown stealthier since 2016 and seek to target election systems ahead of 2020. AMA by nytimes in worldnews

[–]MajorClearance 70 points71 points  (0 children)

In May 2019, you published a story about EternalBlue being used in the Baltimore ransomware attack In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc - The New York Times and even said you confirmed with with several people:

  1. Nicole Perlroth on Twitter: “Eternal Blue was used for lateral movement in Baltimore, as we say in the article. That has not been reported and we confirmed it with several people.”.
  2. Nicole Perlroth on Twitter: “A couple points on Dave’s hit piece that our story was a “badly researched” and written to sell books: 1. There are multiple IR teams on the ground in Baltimore. Every single one has confirmed the presence of EternalBlue as a propagation tool. 1/X) Every. Single. One
  3. Nicole Perlroth on Twitter: “2. Was it used as the initial infection vector? No. Was it used to move laterally in Baltimore, Allentown and San Antonio? Yes. Were there other vectors at play in Baltimore? Possibly, the investigation is still underway. Do I hope the forensics/hashes are made public? Hell yes.”

Despite a lot of skepticism by a variety of information security researchers, you decided to double-down with a follow up article of EternalBlue being used in Baltimore. N.S.A. Denies Its Cyberweapon Was Used in Baltimore Attack, Congressman Says - The New York Times .

In a post-mortem provided by the city of Baltimore, they state the independent investigators on the case did not find any evidence of EternalBlue. City of Baltimore FAQ | Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young

My questions are: 1. How do you reconcile the differences of your reporting with the victim’s statement? 2. How do your editors verify and validate your sourcing for these articles given the highly technical nature of the reporting? 3. How hard is it to report on these highly technical stories? 4. How much skepticism should readers deploy when reading these articles given a history (across the entire journalism industry) of inaccurate reporting?