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Iran behind cyber-attack on Adelson’s Sands Corp.

Mar 1, 2015 11:43 pm By Robert Spencer

Sheldon AdelsonAdelson is “a leading U.S. supporter of Israel and of Republican political candidates.”

Since Obama is relentlessly courting Iran and making concession after concession to the mullahs, this is unlikely to be taken in the highest circles in Washington as a belligerent act. After all, they hate Adelson, too.

“Iran Behind Cyber-Attack on Adelson’s Sands Corp., Clapper Says,” by Anthony Capaccio, David Lerman, and Chris Strohm, Bloomberg, February 26, 2015 (thanks to Marc):

(Bloomberg) — The top U.S. intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.

Identifying Iran as the perpetrator came more than a year after the Feb. 10, 2014, attack against the world’s largest gambling company, which crippled many of the computer systems that help run the $14 billion operation. Sands’ chairman and chief executive officer and top shareholder is billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a leading U.S. supporter of Israel and of Republican political candidates.

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday that the attack by Iran, followed by the hacking of Sony Corp. by North Korea in November, marked the first destructive cyber-assaults on the U.S. by nation-states. Iran’s role in the attack that crippled operations at several of Sands’ U.S. casinos was reported in December by Bloomberg Businessweek.

“While both of these nations have lesser technical capabilities in comparison to Russia and China, these destructive attacks demonstrate that Iran and North Korea are motivated and unpredictable cyber-actors,” Clapper said.

He also said the cyberthreat from Russia is “more severe than we have previously assessed,” without elaborating.

Computer attacks such as those by Iran and North Korea are more likely to threaten the U.S. in the future than a single massive assault crippling the country’s infrastructure, he said….

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Filed Under: Internet jihad, Iran Tagged With: Las Vegas Sands Corp., Sheldon Adelson


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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 12:21 am

    Adelson should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 12:43 am

    I remain completely baffled by what Obama is trying to achieve with Iran. Or any of his foreign policy, for that matter.

    So far Obama’s policies have made him the most destructive and least successful American President of all time, from a foreign policy perspective. His policies and actions have resulted in a half-dozen governments haven fallen, countries ablaze with Islamic jihadis, smashing, burning and slaughtering, he’s viewed as a joke by Russia’s Putin, the Chinese laugh at him, the Iranian mullahs mock him and gloat over their victory, and even little shits like North Korea’s fat boy don’t hesitate to cyber attack American corporations… and on and on.

    What does he possibly hope to get from Iran? All they ever do is stall and delay and do everything possible to let the time go by so they can continue full steam ahead with their nuclear program. They’re never going to give that up. Now these stories about Obama threatening to order attacks of Israeli forces if they try and take out Iran’s nuclear bomb facilities — true or not, they seem plausible. Is he trying to keep them “on side” with regards to ISIS? They sure as hell don’t need any encouragement from Obama — ISIS will destroy them if they don’t fight back as it is!

    So what is it, Obama? What are you trying to achieve here with Iran? CLEARLY it is nothing in the best interests of the United States. Is it to empower them for some reason? Do you want them to have a nuclear bomb so they can nuke ISIS with the okay of the Iraqi government? Is that it? It’s just baffling.

    • Judi says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 6:23 am

      God post Don. One thing is for sure, the Traitor-in-chief wants to see the demise of Israel. I believe this is his main goal.

      • Spot On says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 8:12 am

        I agree with Israel being B.O. and Iran’s common enemy. We may be hit at the same time Israel is hit by Iran’s nukes if they are allowed to get them,who knows. Iran would certainly do it anonymously. B.O. is anti-Semitic. He don’t appreciate America. Now Iran is attacking one of B.O.’s political donor enemies, Republican Sheldon Adelson (On B.O.’s behalf?). Mr. Adelson also happens to be Jew. Why didn’t they attack one of the other millions of Jews in the US? That sure must help seal the deal with Iran and B.O. to sell us out.

      • Lioness says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 10:15 am

        And the reinstatement of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

    • Angemon says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 10:26 am

      Don McKellar posted:

      “I remain completely baffled by what Obama is trying to achieve with Iran. Or any of his foreign policy, for that matter.”

      I think he’s a wannabe know-it-all megalomaniac who buys hook, line and sinker the theory that there will be peace in the world once every country is at the same level, and he’s working for that goal not by spurring other countries to rise but by bringing down America, and the rest of the Western countries with it.

  3. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 12:58 am

    Obama’s not too keen on helping Adelson’s Sands Corp. but he’s Mullah’n the idea.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mulling

  4. Evagirl says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:55 am

    Well since Adelson has a Sands hotel in Dubai, it would seem to be a good place for anyone who wanted to cause him grief to start. Who would stop them as they formulated their cyber attack?

  5. buckeye says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 4:52 am

    ….”(Bloomberg) — The top U.S. intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.”

    “While both of these nations have lesser technical capabilities in comparison to Russia and China, these destructive attacks demonstrate that Iran and North Korea are motivated and unpredictable cyber-actors,” Clapper said.”….. DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THIS B.S. PROPAGANDA COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE OFFICE OF THE MICROMANAGER-COMMUNITY AGITATOR-IN CHIEF!!

    YEAH, right

  6. BC says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 6:15 am

    Obama’s policy is irresponsible and insane, even if one can trust Iran’s present leaders which is very doubtful, nobody can predict what a future leadership of Iran might be like

  7. Baucent says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:27 am

    What’s Obama up to with Iran? I’ll give that one a go. He has this crazy idea that the ISIS mess can be cleaned up by the Iranians. But he has to give them something to make them come to the party.

  8. Joseph says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    I think that the west should prepare to give the Muslim countries ALL the nukes they want.
    On the receiving end, not the delivery thereof.
    I said “PREPARE” for you know as well as I that this is the path Islam is prepared and WANTS to take.
    Sell your “glass” stocks now because the market is going to be flooded.

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