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The Georgia governor hopeful is attacking the run-of-the-mill security research that keeps the internet safe. Continue reading Brian Kemp Is Weaponizing Good Cybersecurity in an Authoritarian Ploy Against Democrats
The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US – a risky move, some say. Continue reading US military given the power to hack back/defend forward
This is the 79th episode of the Shared Security Podcast sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and&… Continue reading The Shared Security Podcast Episode 79 – Election Hacking and Vulnerable Voting Machines
Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release. Continue reading NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
Reality Winner, a 26-… Continue reading NSA Leaker ‘Reality Winner’ Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison
The DNC thought it was getting hacked again, but it was just a false alarm set off by a security test. It’s a sign that the organization is taking its cybersecurity seriously. Continue reading The DNC False Alarm Hack Is Good Cybersecurity, Bad PR
Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States’ Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium,… Continue reading Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election
Respondents in a survey from Venafi said they believe voting machines, encrypted communications from polling stations and databases that store voter registration data are all vulnerable. Continue reading ThreatList: Almost All Security Pros Believe Election Systems Are at Risk
It took him less than 10 minutes to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website. Continue reading 11-year-old hacker changes election results
The same outfit of Russian hackers that launched cyberattacks against U.S. targets in the 2016 presidential election appears to have targeted Sen. Claire McCaskill, a critic of Moscow and red-state Democrat who faces a tough reelection bid. The news, first reported by the Daily Beast, makes the Missouri senator the first to be named in 2018 as a target of Russian hackers. There are at least two others. Last week, Microsoft executive Tom Burt said that earlier this year, hackers associated with the GRU, the Russian intelligence agency behind cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns during the 2016 presidential election, used spearphishing and fake Microsoft domains to target three candidates in the 2018 midterm elections. Burt said that the unnamed candidates “might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as from an election standpoint.” McCaskill fits the bill on both counts. She serves as the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Government […]
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