The FBI has announced that it will tell local election officials when hackers try to infiltrate their systems.
Tag Archives: Election hacking
US military given the power to hack back/defend forward
The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US – a risky move, some say.
NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.
11-year-old hacker changes election results
It took him less than 10 minutes to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website.
DOJ to publicly disclose election tampering schemes
Under a new policy, US organizations and individuals will be told if they’re the target of foreign operations trying to influence elections.
Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking
The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.