Category Archives: DNC Hack

The Declassified Report on Russia’s Election Hacking Says Nothing New

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The big, albeit unclassified, report on Russian hacking operations against the US is short on details, and doesn’t add anything new. Continue reading The Declassified Report on Russia’s Election Hacking Says Nothing New→

What Hack? Burlington Electric Speaks Out

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Burlington Electric Department general manager Neale Lunderville speaks out about last week’s incident and response to reports the electric grid had been hacked. Continue reading What Hack? Burlington Electric Speaks Out→

The Download on the DNC Hack

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with questions from readers asking why I haven’t written much about two stories that have consumed the news media of late: The alleged Russian hacking attacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and, more recently, the discovery of malware on a laptop at a Vermont power utility that has been attributed to Russian hacker groups. I’ve avoided covering these stories mainly because I don’t have any original reporting to add to them, and because I generally avoid chasing the story of the day — preferring instead to focus on producing original journalism on cybercrime and computer security. Continue reading The Download on the DNC Hack→

Wikileaks Gets DDoSed after Leaking 8,200 DNC Emails One Day before U.S. Election

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With just two days before the presidential election, WikiLeaks late Sunday night published a new trove of emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The most recent dump of more than 8,000 emails came after the whistleblowing site, on a daily basis over last four weeks, has already leaked over 50,000 emails stolen from the key figure in the DNC – Hillary Clinton’s

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