There was a lot of testimony during this past week's impeachment inquiry about foreign interference in our 2016 election, including the president's assertion that Ukraine was involved. But the president's own intelligence agencies say it was the Russians who "hacked" the 2016 elections. Special counsel Robert Mueller spelled it out in his report.
Now the Justice Department has at least two open cases against Russian citizens for interfering with our presidential and congressional races, we decided to take a closer look at one of them - the case against 12 Russian military officers accused of breaking into the Democratic Party's computers, stealing compromising information, and selectively releasing it to undermine Democratic candidates. There's no evidence of similar operations against Republicans in 2016.
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School district's computer servers hacked, superintendent says. Classes delayed on Monday.
Last November, Galloway Township public schools lost $200,000 in a "cybersecurity incident." Login credentials of staff members were compromised, according to an NJ Advance Media report.
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Are Iranian Hackers Planning An Attack On Key Oil Assets? | OilPrice.com
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An infamous Iranian hacker group may be targeting industrial control systems to cause major disruptions in power grids, oil refineries, and other physical energy assets, in an apparent sharpened focus on cyber warfare on critical industries.
These attempts by Iranian hackers to infiltrate systems controlling energy assets come at a time of heightened tension between the United States and Iran and at a time of increased cyber threats to the energy industry in the United States and globally.
Macy’s said hackers stole customer credit cards — again – TechCrunch
For the second time in as many years, Macy’s customers have been hit by a data breach involving countless numbers of credit cards.
In a filing with the California attorney general, the retail giant said hackers siphoned off customers’ names, addresses, and phone numbers, but also credit card numbers, card verification codes, and expiration dates by inserting malicious code on its website and quietly sending the stolen data back to the hackers.
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A notorious Iranian hacking crew is targeting industrial control systems | Ars Technica
Iranian hackers have carried out some of the most disruptive acts of digital sabotage of the last decade, wiping entire computer networks in waves of cyberattacks across the Middle East and occasionally even the US . But now one of Iran's most active hacker groups appears to have shifted focus. Rather than just standard IT networks, they're targeting the physical control systems used in electric utilities, manufacturing, and oil refineries.
Microsoft ranked those targets by the number of accounts hackers tried to crack; Moran says about half of the top 25 were manufacturers, suppliers, or maintainers of industrial control system equipment. In total, Microsoft says it has seen APT33 target dozens of those industrial equipment and software firms since mid-October.
GOP senator: 'I don't know' if Ukraine or Russia hacked 2016 election
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Sunday defended President Donald Trump by floating the same debunked 2016 conspiracy theory that Trump asked Ukraine to investigate, a key component of the House impeachment inquiry.
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"Right, but it could also be Ukraine," Kennedy said. "I'm not saying that I know one way or the other."
Kennedy pointed to a Democratic National Committee staffer, Alexandra Chalupa, who recently told Politico that some Ukrainian Embassy officials were "helpful" in her efforts to reveal damaging information about Trump's then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is now serving a more than seven-year prison sentence. Hill said in her testimony that there is "little" evidence of a top-down effort by Ukraine's government unlike the ample evidence of the Kremlin's involvement.
Here's what you can do to prevent your Disney+ account from being hacked | East Idaho News
IDAHO FALLS — Disney+ has been making headlines for days since its launch on November 12, quickly asserting its dominance in the TV streaming services realm as a notable player.
But, Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific knows that, where there are popular online product launches, scammers and hackers are sure to be lurking in the background. Consumers learned this in no time when scores of customers reported their Disney+ accounts had been hacked just days after the rollout.
Journalist Marc Caputo defends reporting that used Russian-hacked documents -
In 2016, Politico Senior Writer Marc Caputo was tipped off by a Republican operative to a cache of hacked DCCC documents, stolen by Russian GRU agents and published on a blog under the now-infamous moniker Guccifer 2.0. Among those documents, which were never intended to be seen by the public, were compromising dossiers that included the scandals, indiscretions and political vulnerabilities of the Democratic Party's own candidates in Florida races.
Even though Russian intelligence was suspected to be behind the hack, many in the mainstream media used the stolen material. Politico's Caputo used excerpts from the dossiers in one report, published just a few months before the vote, titled, "Hacked DCCC docs dish on strategy and scandal for Florida congressional candidates."
Happening on Twitter
Sources confirm to @CBSNews that senators were briefed this fall on Russian operatives' efforts to deflect attentio… https://t.co/zUIGdGN7yp Olivia_Gazis (from Washington, DC) Fri Nov 22 22:46:09 +0000 2019
You lost Russiagate and you won't stop You are liars "Democratic operatives created fake Russian bots designed to… https://t.co/asXEDoAR11 Timcast (from New York) Thu Nov 21 12:44:53 +0000 2019
"Russian intelligence operatives deployed a network of agents to blame Ukraine for its 2016 interference. Starting… https://t.co/QVZjd6Tqiy anneapplebaum (from Warsaw, London, Washington) Fri Nov 22 18:59:48 +0000 2019
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