Michael Isikoff
Born
in Syosset, NY, The United States
January 01, 1952
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Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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2018
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
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2006
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Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story
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1999
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“But, the source explained, this fit Putin’s larger strategic vision: “to destroy NATO, destroy the European Union, and seriously harm the United States.”
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
“One day in September 2015, FBI agent Adrian Hawkins placed a call to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., and asked to speak to the person in charge of technology. He was routed to the DNC help desk, which transferred the call to Yared Tamene, a young IT specialist with The MIS Department, a consulting firm hired by the DNC. After identifying himself, Hawkins told Tamene that he had reason to believe that at least one computer on the DNC’s network was compromised. He asked if the DNC was aware of this and what it was doing. Tamene had nothing to do with cybersecurity and knew little about the subject. He was a mid-level network administrator; his basic IT duties for the DNC were to set up computer accounts for employees and be on call to deal with any problems. When he got the call, Tamene was wary. Was this a joke or, worse, a dirty trick? He asked Hawkins if he could prove he was an FBI agent, and, as Tamene later wrote in a memo, “he did not provide me with an adequate response.… At this point, I had no way of differentiating the call I received from a prank call.” Hawkins, though, was real. He was a well-regarded agent in the FBI’s cyber squad. And he was following a legitimate lead in a case that would come to affect a presidential election. Earlier in the year, U.S. cyber warriors intercepted a target list of about thirty U.S. government agencies, think tanks, and several political organizations designated for cyberattacks by a group of hackers known as APT 29. APT stood for Advanced Persistent Threat—technojargon for a sophisticated set of actors who penetrate networks, insert viruses, and extract data over prolonged periods of time.”
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
“In one of the meetings, Clapper said that he was worried that Russia might respond with cyberattacks against America’s critical infrastructure—and possibly shut down the electrical grid.”
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
― Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
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