Cyber Security
Thursday 14 September 2017
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Sergey Kislyak
Former Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
“I have worked for years in the American (relations) field, and I can responsibly say that we did everything, simply everything, to maintain normal cooperation.”
Read more...Russia’s own actions endangering global security caused the deterioration of relations with the United States as well as with other countries. The conditions for lifting sanctions and returning to “normal” cooperation have been clearly presented to Russia but Moscow ignores its obligation to help maintain global security. -
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Aleksei Podberezkin
Head of Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO
“No missile program of North Korea threatens the U.S. now. And it will be a while before it does. Theoretically, one of its missiles could reach the continental U.S. in two-three years… The DPRK does not have any unique technologies, there can’t be any… Only big states are able to develop military technologies. [North] Korea is not one of them.”
Read more...In fact, North Korea has demonstrated both capacity and intent to develop nuclear and missile programs and systems that threaten the U.S. and its allies. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Press Secretary
“I know nothing about this, this is the first time I’ve heard about it.” [in reply to a query about then-President Barack Obama directly addressing President Putin on Russia’s alleged hacking attacks on the U.S.]
Read more...President Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, denies any knowledge of a phone call between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, in which the U.S. President addressed his Russian counterpart on the subject of alleged Russian cyber-attacks and interference in the 2016 presidential elections. Unfortunately for Peskov, he had briefed journalists on this very phone call less than six months earlier. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Press secretary, Kremlin
“We would be extremely grateful if this research group sent us the information and we were able to check it. So far this information is little more than anonymous fake news based on nothing but fantasy.”
Read more...After the Japan-headquartered security software company Trend Micro reported the discovery of an organized hacking campaign linked to Russia and targeting French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin called the accusations “fake news.” A fact-check, however, points to a hacking group linked to Russian intelligence and accused of being behind similar attacks on the U.S. Democratic Party and the World Anti-Doping Agency. -
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German Klimenko
Russian presidential adviser on internet issues
“Our country must be prepared that it will be cut off from the worldwide internet -- the high likelihood of 'tectonic shifts' in our relations with the West (is) in the direction of deterioration."
Read more...Alluding to possible threats from the West, Russia’s top tech envoy expressed fears that Russia's internet could be “cut off.” A Polygraph.info fact check shows that while a foreign cyber attack would be crippling, an effective closure of the nation’s internet access is an implausible scenario. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Presidential spokesman
“It is an ordinary communication line that heads of states use for phone conversations.”
Read more...Commenting after an NBC News report that U.S. President Barack Obama used "the so-called Red Phone" to warn President Vladimir Putin over interfering in the U.S. election process, a Kremlin spokesman said it is "an ordinary communication line." But history shows it is a special line used in crisis. -
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
“We have not seen a single fact, a single proof."
Read more...The Russian Foreign Minister says the U.S. has offered no proof that the Kremlin hacked into Democratic Party computers. The U.S. says it does have proof but have not made the details public. -
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Dmitry Peskov
President Vladimir Putin's Spokesperson
"We can say unequivocally that any involvement of official Moscow, the Russian government, or any Russian secret services in such actions is out of the question. It is completely ruled out.”
Read more...Russia claims they were not involved in the hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency that leaked confidential medical records of Olympic athletes. The agency says it traced the IP address to the Russian military intelligence agency.
