Washington — The Democratic National Committee is yet again under attack. CNN reported Wednesday that the DNC had alerted the FBI to a hacking attempt targeting the party’s voter database called Votebuilder.
A private security firm and a cloud-server company that hosts websites and other online infrastructure for political groups first alerted the DNC to the potential cyberattack on Tuesday morning. The attack took the form of a fake log-in page, designed to mimic a real DNC page, that could be used to trick individuals with database access to enter usernames and passwords.
A private security firm and a cloud-server company that hosts websites and other online infrastructure for political groups first alerted the DNC to the potential cyberattack on Tuesday morning. The attack took the form of a fake log-in page, designed to mimic a real DNC page, that could be used to trick individuals with database access to enter usernames and passwords.
- 8/22/2018
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — Hackers affiliated with the Russian government have expanded their targets to include the U.S. Senate as well as two American think tanks critical of Russia. The discovery comes from a new report by Microsoft, which says it helped detect this new wave of hacking and is going public for the first time about its efforts to block future cyberattacks.
The two think tanks in question are the Hudson Institute, a hawkish organization that works on anti-corruption reforms in Russia, and the International Republican Institute, whose board of directors includes...
The two think tanks in question are the Hudson Institute, a hawkish organization that works on anti-corruption reforms in Russia, and the International Republican Institute, whose board of directors includes...
- 8/21/2018
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
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