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Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts (politico.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft detected and helped block hacking attempts against three congressional candidates this year, a company executive said Thursday, marking the first known example of cyber interference in the midterm elections. "Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks," said Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president for security and trust, at the Aspen Security Forum. "And we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for election in the midterm elections."
Burt declined to name the targets but said they were "people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint." Microsoft took down the fake domain and worked with the federal government to block the phishing messages.
Burt declined to name the targets but said they were "people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint." Microsoft took down the fake domain and worked with the federal government to block the phishing messages.
Yeah why did Obama do nothing about this? He knew about it and it still happened.
He attempted to do something about it... unfortunately it failed.
Obama tried to warn off Putin (as if that would work by itself). He then went to congressional leadership, trying to establish some sort of bipartisan response - but was rebuffed.
Now, after that failed, I think he should’ve still done something - even if it were just a televised address to the nation. Frankly, I do think he dropped the ball - and badly. But pretending he just sat on the knowledge is ignoring the facts - fake news, as it were.
#DeleteChrome
#WalkAway is a completely transparent astroturf, pushed heavily by the Russian bots and people who weren't Democrats at all. The right-wingers pushing this are getting high on their own supply if they believe this stuff is real, and are utterly blinding themselves to the sentiments of their opposition.