Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:07:25 +0000
A group of researchers found that the software to count votes was a “total disaster.“
Read moreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 17:33:53 +0000
There are clues that the Kremlin hacked the French presidential candidate. But not yet enough to draw a conclusion. The post Don’t Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet appeared first on WIRED.
Read moreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 23:32:40 +0000
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron confirms it’s been the target of a successful hacking operation. The post Hackers Hit Macron With Huge Email Leak Ahead of French Election appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:02:00 -0700
A Russian man long connected with sending spam emails has been arrested and is being held in Spain, with a law enforcement source contradicting news reports saying he was involved with a computer virus linked to President Donald Trump’s recent election victory.
The arrest of Piotr Levashov at the Barcelona airport on Friday was not tied to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, said the source, who is close to the investigation. That contradicts news reports from Agence France-Presse (AFP) and other news outlets, which said Levashov’s wife, Maria Levachova, was told his arrest was connected to Trump’s election.
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Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:13:00 -0700
The Russian government used “thousands” of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, according to one lawmaker.
Disinformation spread on social media was designed to raise doubts about the U.S. election and the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, said Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat.
“This Russian propaganda on steroids was designed to poison the national conversation in America,” Warner said Thursday during a Senate hearing on Russian election hacking. The Russian government used “thousands of paid internet trolls” and bots to spread disinformation on social media.
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Credit to Author: Martyn Williams| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:24:00 -0700
President Donald Trump is extending by one year special powers introduced by former President Barack Obama that allow the government to issue sanctions against people and organizations engaged in significant cyberattacks and cybercrime against the U.S.
Executive Order 13694 was introduced on April 1, 2015, and was due to expire on Saturday, but the president sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday evening saying he plans to keep the order active.
“Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” Trump wrote in the letter. “Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13694 with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.”
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:00:35 +0000
Google and Jigsaw are helping protect elections from DDoS attacks and more. The post A Cybersecurity Arsenal That’ll Help ‘Protect Your Election’ appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:16:00 -0700
Future U.S. elections may very well face more Russian attempts to interfere with the outcome, the FBI and the National Security Agency warned on Monday.
“They’ll be back,” said FBI director James Comey. “They’ll be back in 2020. They may be back in 2018.”
Comey made the comment during a congressional hearing on Russia’s suspected efforts to meddle with last year’s presidential election. Allegedly, cyberspies from the country hacked several high-profile Democratic groups and people, in an effort to tilt the outcome in President Donald Trump’s favor.
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