Russian FSB Officers Arrested

Well, it is not like Radio Free Europe to get a story on hacking and the FSB, but this time they have.  RFE reports that a Russian lawyer has said three people were arrested, two FSB agents and the head of the Kapersky Lab.

" At the time of their arrests in December, Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev were officers with the FSB's Center for Information Security, a leading unit within the FSB involved in cyberactivities.

Pavlov confirmed to RFE/RL the arrest of Mikhailov and Dokuchayev, along with Ruslan Stoyanov, a former employee of the Interior Ministry who had worked for Kaspersky Labs, a well-known private cyber-research company, which announced Stoyanov's arrest last month."

It is not that part of the story that is particularly new.  It is their link with the hacking inside the Democratic National Committee and information being given to an intelligence agency in the U.S. that would be somewhat of a surprise.  I said this was going to happen.  Anytime you do what the White House did to announce that Putin had directed the whole operation, the intelligence services will want to know how the U.S. got that kind of information.  It took awhile (a month until the arrest) but not so long in cyber circles to find these gentlemen.  The are being tried for treason, Ex-President Obama.  So, when you wake up to the story that they have been executed, you can feel good about making the news for one day during the election and getting the two of them killed because of your carelessness with intelligence.  It would not be the first time.