On October 29th, 2020 with 162 comments
Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground...
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On October 26th, 2020 with 58 comments
A Georgia county has reverted to matching some absentee ballot signatures to paper backups, rather than an online system, after a ransomware infection spread...
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On September 28th, 2020 with 37 comments
A Texas company that sells software that cities and states use to display results on election night was hit by ransomware last week, the latest of nearly a...
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On September 24th, 2020 with 51 comments
Last week, voters and election administrators who emailed Leanne Jackson, the clerk of rural Hamilton County in central Texas, received bureaucratic-looking...
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On August 6th, 2020 with 163 comments
The US Department of State announced today rewards of up to $10 million for any information leading to the identification of any person who works with or for a...
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On July 24th, 2020 with 103 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump's re-election campaign has accused Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile of "suppression of...
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On June 24th, 2020 with 182 comments
New submitter feross shares a report: A group of Senate Republicans is looking to force tech companies to comply with "lawful access" to encrypted...
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On June 10th, 2020 with 338 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: On Sunday, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan revealed...
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On June 9th, 2020 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email...
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