Friday 16 September 2016

How hackers could prey on election vulnerabilities

JUDY WOODRUFF: This year’s political campaign has a new and different wrinkle. Cyber-hacking has led to regular public releases of documents and private e-mails involving the political parties and key players.

The Democrats are the most frequent targets. But it’s not only them.

The list of election season cyber-attacks is growing. The latest target, former Secretary of State Colin Powell. A trove of his e-mails appeared online this week after his personal account was hacked. In one referring to GOP nominee Donald Trump and black voters, Powell wrote, “He takes us for idiots.”

Another referred to Democrat Hillary Clinton as greedy, not transformational. The messages were posted on a site that’s reportedly an outlet for hackers tied to Russia.

Clinton today did blame the Russians. The White House wasn’t saying For the full article click here 



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