Losing campaign managers for two electoral campaigns formed a joint effort to combat election hacking. Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, and Hillary Clinton’s manager, Robby Mook, have formed a group to combat possible election hacking by the likes of Russia. The project will be headquartered at Harvard University under the name “Defending Digital […]
McDonald’s, a fast-food restaurant chain, claimed it was hacked by an external party this past week when its corporate Twitter account sent out an anti-Trump tweet on Twitter. You can see the tweet below:
CNN used an image from the popular game series known as Fallout, a game where the player is in a post-apocalyptic world after nuclear war hits the United States homeland. That’s embarrassing, CNN: In a video from December 30, 2016, CNN used footage from Fallout’s hacking mini-game as B-roll to illustrate reports of recent, real-life hacks […]
In an article published on New Year’s Eve, the Washington Post claimed that the Russians had hacked into the U.S. electrical grid via a Vermont utility company. However, the Post was wrong in their assumption. Their correction is telling and you can read it for yourself: Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said […]
From NBC News’ piece questioning why Obama wasn’t strong with Russia on hacking allegations: An administration official, in turn, criticized the news media for focusing more on the leaked documents than on the Russian covert operation that hacked into political entities to steal the documents. Administration officials pointed out that the day the intelligence assessment […]
Interesting narrative not talked about by the liberal media: Why didn’t Obama take a stronger stance before against Russia in Crimea and Ukraine, and choose now to make a stand less than month before he is out of office? It appears that Obama is only trying to be tough on Russia now that the election […]
Holy (crap)! That’s quite a hack: Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that […]