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Democratic National Committee Says Hackers Unsuccessfully Targeted Voter Database (cnn.com)
The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN. From a report: The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said. The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details. The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.
And put it in the shitter closet!
Like this doesn't happen to the RNC or to other parties? EVERYTHING on the net is being hacked and targetted. I'd be more surprised that this DIDN'T happen to any political campaign with a net presence.
Or have we forgotten last week's story that 10 year olds hacked into government web servers?
Because the database was filled with fake names
Well, we know someone associated with DNC or their providers managed to detect one possible attack. This does not mean that other attacks were unsuccessful, and considering DNC track record my money would be that they are getting hacked every other day and just don't know about it.
Come back when you actually have something to show collusion. You have nothing. This was an unsuccessful attempt and still nobody has shown any collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. This is a non-story.
Back in the mid-90s the first time I turned on ZoneAlarm I was getting a break-in attempt about once every 5 seconds on my IP address.
Today, in 2018, I see hackers attempting to hack my website multiple times daily.
Give it a break liberals. Hacking isn't new nor is it infrequent.
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Well in not saying the Russians are behind this but... the Russians are obviously behind this
Cohen flips on Trump and the next day Russia attempts a sophisticated intrusion into a DNC server. Seems more than coincidental. Russia is spooked, and rightfully so.
Won't be long before the next shoe drops.
I've used it before calling on behalf of Beto. It's a shit database. At least 50% old numbers or disconnected. Of the other half, most either don't care or have republican husbands who answer the phone and yell at you. 10% are gonna vote for a D already. About 5% of the people might have been worth calling. The Russians couldn't have made it much worse.
There's a huge difference between a random bot probing for unpatched vulnerabilities and a highly targeted attack with a specifically created fake login page.
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and people who are 116 years old....
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It's fun to post conspiracy theories for either/both sides. Always gets a reaction from someone.
The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.
As recent history shows, Democratic operatives choose weak passwords ('password') and offer them up readily when asked for them via email from strangers...
I'm looking at you, Jon Podesta, former campaign director of Hillary 2016.
Ken
Hacking happens to everyone, agreed we shouldn't be throwing poo at each other at every chance. It's stupid.
And people say they're not manufacturing [fraudulent] votes.
Back in 2015 and 2016 the DNC poo-poo'd FBI and other agencies that tried to alert them that they were the targets of concerted hacking efforts.
Ken
Give it a break liberals. Hacking isn't new nor is it infrequent.
So because it's not new nor infrequent, there's no value in reporting it?
Pretty much.
Can you think of anything that's common and has happened for a long time that's newsworthy?
You *might* get by with "not commonly known", but I think reports of hacking don't qualify for that - especially on this site.
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two factor authentication. two factor authentication. TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION!!!!!!
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What's so special about hackers targeting valuable data? Can you imagine being alerted everytime that happens?
Or is it that they are so proud they protected against this one that they want a pat on the back?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
They are just trying to establish precedent for 'evidence' when they get spanked in November. Don't fall for it.
The "claim" is a fact : They were setting up a spearphishing dummy page for a targeted campaign - in fact hundreds of them. You're a moron trying to downplay this, but what's your interest in doing so? Trump is a traitor either way.
Again - like a TARGETED ATTACK on a system for valuable data doesn't happen to the RNC or to other parties?
That's like saying because somebody tried picking the lock instead of breaking the windows that they were after something different. We get it, you want to think this is somehow IMPORTANT TO THE GRAND STORY OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION.
It's not.
Unless you want to say this is more proof that Trump's move to increase cyber warfare attacks against those that attack our systems is justified by this failed attempt.
Are you?
and say that if they're brought in the FBI it's something more than just a random hit to their IP address.
The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be. There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign. There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
One of the reasons I'd really love to see basic income become a thing is that it would pay for people to be investigative journalists. Combine basic income with the internet's cheap ability to distribute information. and we'd have a winning formula for one of the most important aspects of democracy, the free press. As it stands there's little work being done to investigate Trump won outside of the Mueller probe, and given the political situation that may fizzle out whereas independent journalism might hit a Watergate style breakthrough.
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DNC can't be trusted with voter information and neither can the RNC.
I shouldn't have to declare a party to vote and be prevented from voting in the other primaries. All this does is provide extreme candidates which don't join the country together.
In defense of a known traitor, Donald Jumpsuit Drumpf, who sucked Putin's dick on TV at every opportunity and continues to lie to their punk ass retarded Republican fat faggot faces as the final days stretch into final nights.
When Trump hangs, America will be great again. Giuliani is the single most retarded excuses for a President's legal counsel in our history. That's counsel, not council, Trump University morons. You deserve your traitor.
And he deserves life in prison, if not the gallows for treason - he will get one or the other, sorry snowflake Republican traitors. You lost the long game on Trump, and it's going to be around your neck for decades, traitors.
And we all get to sit back with a cold drink and watch him, and your party, unravel, lol.
Wait, no, nevermind - we don't talk about that. It was her turn. Russia Russia Russia.
500+ people tried to hack my servers today. Tried. Attempted. Skiddied, Dreamed of, salivated.
Yep, but didn't actually do it.
The DNC is filled with the highest order of retards
I am a humble, ignorant person, so please forgive me if this is common knowledge. (Or don't forgive me, but then that'll be your problem.)
Is this confidential information? If it's not, then who cares if Russia accessed it?
If it's confidential, then HOW THE FUCK do political parties get it? DNC and RNC shouldn't have access to it either, so we should be investigating how they "hacked" the database (i.e. stole it from the government).
Seems like if we put the major parties in prison, they won't as easily be able to spy on us, so they won't have as much information for Russians to steal.
of the "russia" smoke and mirrors bullshit
500+ people tried to hack my servers today. Tried. Attempted. Skiddied, Dreamed of, salivated.
Yep, but didn't actually do it.
The DNC is filled with the highest order of retards
Have you seen what passes for mainstream Democrats these days? When the party is full on retard you should expect the leadership to exhibit it too.
I see dead people.
Have gnu, will travel.
They wouldn't know if it was a sophisticated attack.
I understand if they are unable to hack a system, or not even able to find it, but unable to target it?
Blindfold me and I am able to target (and miss) a pinata.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
e.g. not with full address information let alone any demographics and the like.
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During the 2016 hack, why didn't the DNC immediately contact the FBI? Instead, the sleazy Wasserman Schultz-led DNC back then relied on a private IT security company to investigate. (Full disclosure: many years before that, I lived in Representative Wasserman Schultz's congressional district in South Florida and I even voted for her.) Donald Trump even asked why the DNC did not hand over their hard drives to the FBI for investigation, and then I think he probably made up some cockamamie conspiracy theory answering his own question.
At least now the DNC appears to have contacted the FBI about this latest hacking attempt.
But I still do not understand why the DNC in 2016 did not rely on the FBI when it was hacked by the Russians back then.
I wonder how much Cambridge Analytics data they have in this database?
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But not by Russia!. https://www.motherjones.com/po... https://www.npr.org/2016/04/19... https://nypost.com/2016/04/21/...
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> Don't worry, if there is something, Mueller has it.
And even if there isn't something, he still has it. Mueller deserves to be tried as a war criminal for helping start the Iraq war, by lying about "weapons of mass destruction". See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
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It's official, this was a FALSE ALARM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dnc-says-reported-hack-attempt-was-a-false-alarm-1535028628
According to the DNC Russian hackers had no problem doing this before.
It's pretty easy to get access to the database as it is. I've been given access in the past and there were no background checks at all. You'd typically be restricted to a specific state or districts, but I was also given other individual's logins that had less restrictions. People that have access seem to regularly share their logins with others. No hacking, social engineering, or phishing necessary and nothing to prevent those with access from doing full dumps and sharing that data with anyone they want.
DNC servers have never been inspected any US intelligence agency.
We are just supposed to take their words for it, because they are so honest.
And this comes from CNN - the most laughable fake name in news.
This was a phishing test by a 3rd party security firm, authorized by the Michigan Democratic party.