Putin said it wasn’t important who conducted the hacking, but “what’s important is that there was material that was released to the public”.
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“Let us make the Far East Russia region a base for exports to Asia and the Pacific region while raising productivity by moving forward with the diversification of Russian industries”, Abe said, noting bilateral cooperation in developing energy resources and between small and medium-sized companies.
“(T) here are so many hackers today…work (ing) with such finesse, planting a trail…masquerading their actions (to appear) those of other hackers…it’s hard to trace…even impossible” to know the source of these attacks. First, there was the case of presidential rival and Republican nominee Donald Trump’s dossier, complied by the DNC, stolen by hackers.
The U.S. presidential nominees have vastly differing approaches to confronting an increasingly aggressive Russian Federation.
“I don’t think they are setting the best example”, he said.
“Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?” Putin told Bloomberg News on Thursday”. The Department of Homeland Security has offered states assistance with securing voting processes, according to StateScoop, and the US Election Assistance Commission, which helps states facilitate voting, is also set to discuss cybersecurity procedures with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in September.
A spate of other recent hacks, mostly targeting Democratic Party organizations but also state electoral systems, have raised alarms among USA intelligence officials that Moscow is trying to influence the American elections.
Putin demurred, saying that he didn’t have a preference, but Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait pushed him. “I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russian Federation has never done this”.
Referring to the preparatory work being carried out by officials, he said: “There was an agreement that we will continue these consultations and the results will be passed on during the visit of the Russian leader to Japan, which will take place. before the end of the year”. “To do that you need to have a finger on the pulse and get the specifics of the domestic political life of the USA”, he said.
In July, the Republican candidate said he would “get along very well” with Putin – who past year said Trump was a “very colourful and talented man”.
“They’re both using shock tactics, just each in their own way”.
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Putin’s claim put a “bit of spark” in oil prices even though the dollar fell today, Coombs said.
