U.S. election agency breached by hackers after November vote
Source: Reuters
The U.S. agency charged with ensuring that voting machines meet security standards was itself penetrated by a hacker after the November elections, according to a security firm working with law enforcement on the matter.
The security firm, Recorded Future, was monitoring underground electronic markets where hackers buy and sell wares and discovered someone offering log-on credentials for access to computers at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, company executives said.
Posing as a potential buyer, the researchers engaged in a conversation with the hacker, said Levi Gundert, vice president of intelligence at the company, and Andrei Barysevich, director of advanced collection.
Eventually they discovered that the Russian-speaking hacker had obtained the credentials of more than 100 people at the election commission after exploiting a common database vulnerability, the researchers said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-hack-commission-idUSKBN1442VC
Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)Was the cold war the time when America was Great?
blue neen
(12,319 posts)?
Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)blue neen
(12,319 posts)Oh well.
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Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)A hack is not complete until you provide for means to hack whatever is trying to discover you.
And someone said to me, "Don't worry, there are people watching the recounts"
It is not that simple anymore. It will never be that simple anymore
elmac
(4,642 posts)How widespread is this trump/putin terror organization.
triron
(22,001 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and to start, lets void this so called election and redo it.
This is just amazing...................
We can spend billions on defense but we can't spend money on a voting system with integrity, we have to use a machine, when a pencil or pen and paper would be enough, we do not need to have media wanting to use an exit poll to call a state
Again this is just amazing.............
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)by midnight of Election Day. If we can wait for official review to ensure a football game is called correctly, we can wait a few days until we get good election results.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)by calling an election to a winner by some exist poll, that is totally flawed. And by "pollsters" that had no clue.
Michael Moore said a long time ago that this fascist narcissistic serial predator was going to win, and a lot of the MSM except Bill Maher and those reporters on Free Speech laughed at him winning, now they are trying to "normalize" the BS, if you watch look at what toodles does on MTP and, what is really deplorable is that sixty minutes hasn't said anything about what is happening for the last three weeks there programs have been BS
This is the only country that has in essence made a total mockery of majority rule by a vote, the sensationalism of the cable and the MSM to create defacto dictatorship based on how many commercials could be fit in during a debates that did not speak about issues, but personalities and no policy issues, not one question about climate change, not one.
As we speak we have a missing U.S. Supreme Court justice, and now I have to call into question, that the right wing fascists that is going to put in that seat, should I as a citizens obey his or her rulings, my answer is no, they are going to be a a illegitimate justice.
When the fascist republicans did what they did, from that moment moving forward this country went from a republic to a banana republic.
And yes I agree with you, this country has until the 13th of December to certify the vote in its present form, eyeballs and a paper ballot would accomplish this system.
It has now been bastardized by the media to have it called in one night, because of this, this is in my opinion voter suppression is enabled by this form of greed, it is not a democracy
WE are if you don't mind me saying it , 65 million voters that won the majority are going to be screwed, by 62 million that lost, based on a states rights issue of equality of the electoral college.
The National Memo had this to say:
https://www.nationalmemo.com/will-electoral-college-save-us/
This hypocrite, serial predator is not my president, and as soon as democrats come to this fact the better off we will be
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)we should be pissed off pardon the expression, this "normalizing", the public has not heard "one word" of that word from the cable or MSM
Again whom ever this serial predator appoints is not legitimate and 65 million of us had better be prepared to meet this fascists regime head on, or a lot of people are going to be dead.
This may sound extreme, but I truly believe that he will sell states secrets for a profit, for example on the paint coating on the F22 and F-35 which makes it stealth, and also the radar information codes.
This jerk is going to confront a communist regime that just took a U.S. underwater glider in the open waters, what will this ass**** do
He is not my president and as soon as the media let this be known, and treat him as such, they will neutered this serial predator
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)He is not our president, he is a serial predator, now that the media dropped that fact off the radar screen .
Again he is not my president and he needs to treated as such
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)This election was a joke.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)To sell the info.
Others could have breached it, but not advertised that they did.