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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.
As the electorate that pursues their greed and cruelty to such a degree, that they would throw away the any pretense of defending democracy in the face of open attack.
That's like 42% of likely voters.
What happened to America. I'm not a democrat myself - I'm just amazed that this is what conservatism has allowed itself to become. Beyond any ideals, just driven by cruelty to hurting the other side, at all costs.
Ryan Fenton
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.
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Trump was the only one saying the election was going to be hacked during the election.
Hillary, the DNC and CNN were all saying it couldn't happen.
After Trump won, suddenly it was Russian hacking 24/7.
After Trump won, suddenly he does an about face and says there was no meddling in the election.
One side changed their stance based on evidence. Well... I guess they both did.
Trump is the president, election meddling or not. Please STOP talking about Hilary and the DNC. It's past, gone, they lost.
It has nothing to do with them anymore. All that matters now is how our president handles things. Which is embarassing.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.