Exclusive-Hackers test defenses of Trump campaign websites ahead of US election, security staff warn

[Auggie]

Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers have stepped up efforts to knock Trump campaign and business websites offline ahead of the U.S. election, in what a security firm working for the campaign said could be preparation for a larger digital assault, according to emails seen by Reuters.

The security assessment was prepared by staff at U.S. cybersecurity firm Cloudflare, which has been hired by President Donald Trump to help defend his campaign’s websites in an election contest overshadowed by warnings about hacking, disinformation and foreign interference.

Cloudflare is widely used by businesses and other organizations to help defend against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which aim to take down websites by flooding them with malicious traffic.

Internal Cloudflare emails sent to senior company managers - including CEO Matthew Prince - on July 9 state that the number and severity of attacks on Trump websites increased in the preceding two months and reached record levels in June. The emails did not give the total number of attacks.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-hackers-test-defenses-of-trump-campaign-websites-ahead-of-u-s-election-security-staff-warn-idUSKBN25S4SF

[beachbumbob]

1. karma?

[RainCaster]

2. Cloudflare was offline for most of Sunday

They have their own problems, too.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Exactly!

[Javaman]

3. meh...

check out the podcast Darknet Diaries.

the most basic failure of any tech security is people.

the podcast is pretty interesting. Time and time again hackers gain access, usually, but not always via human foibles.

and if I have learned one thing from that podcast, it's this: if someone really wants to hack a system, they can.

[iluvtennis]

7. thanks for the podcast reference. Added it to my playlist for today. nt

[Bayard]

4. So he'll protect his own campaign website

But not voting in general.

[crickets]

14. +1

[sakabatou]

17. Yep

[machoneman]

5. Where can I donate to make sure they succeed? Wildly succeed! Majorly succeed! Beyond all our....

best dreams succeed!

Ha! Take that, Fat Boy!

[BlueWavePsych]

6. Ha!

[Auggie]

8. +1

[reACTIONary]

16. +10 nt

[Sucha NastyWoman]

10. Wonder if hackers are planning on hacking in certain pictures of Melania for the public to see

I hear they think she really helped their case with women last week, and they are planning to use her more during the campaign.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Just more BS? to

create an illusion of the election being "interfered" with ??????????

I'm just waiting to see all the Circumlocution of Bullshit that is coming these next 60 days. I seriously wonder if we are even going to make it to Nov 3rd......

We should start a pool, guessing and making bets on what the Republican "October Surprise" will be this election. Certainly, they must have a doozy planned........

Maybe some phony Biden/Son/Ukraine emails revealed at the last moment, much the same as the phony emails last time with Hillary??????

They have destroyed the actual regular voting process, so we came back with Mail In ballots. And now they have sabotaged the Post Office's ability to process the mail-in ballots...........

[The Mouth]

12. Thoughts and prayers

[CrispyQ]

13. I've been asking since 2016, where are the Hackers for Democracy?

[StClone]

15. The article may indicate some

The leading sentence:"Hackers have stepped up efforts to knock Trump campaign and business websites offline. Sounds like somebody wants to hinder Trump. If successful it may help rid us of the scourge of T-Wrecks.

[sigpooie]

18. don't think they are setting us up for something?

This smells like "ohh we are getting hit too" I don't think this report or the company they hired are bullshitting us by making crap up. But this smells like something is cooking from the con of diversions. I will vote in person to make sure, but I still don't think they have fixed the hacking of our voting systems around the country.