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The Democratic party in the United States along with some mainstream media giants are convinced that Russia hacked the 2016 Presidential elections. Therefore, to analyze the threat of hacking voting machines in the country Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions in Las Vegas, Nevada invited hackers to expose the vulnerabilities in these machines and […]
The new arrest that has happened recently has brought a 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner to the federal court this Monday. The statement made by the Justice Department says that Winner has confessed to removing classified info from her workspace. The workspace in question is located in Augusta, Georgia, and is the new home to the Cyber Command […]
The Russian banking giant Alfa announced, in a press statement, that hackers targeted its cyber infrastructure in a large-scale DNS Botnet attack. The purpose appears to have been to make it seem as though the bank had been communicating with the Trump Organization. The bank is now asking U.S. to assist it to uncover the […]
Maybe some Americans were serious when they threatened they would move to Canada if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump became successful in his often polarizing campaign for the White House. Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for […]
Anonymous is claiming to have hacked the Charitable Bradley Foundation Network and leak confidential details about American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — Experts believe it’s a phony hack. The Milwaukee-based charitable foundation has been hacked by the notorious hacker collective Anonymous. The credit for this hack has been taken by famous “Anonymous Global” group by […]
Just like American election 2016 the voters’ data has also become a joke. Voters in any country want their personal voting data to remain private and confidential, especially if you are living in the United States, where voting systems are supposed to be highly advanced and reliable. But unfortunately, voters in the United States are […]
Hacker Claims Hacking Clinton Foundation and Exposes Donor Databases and Pay to Play Folder — Experts believe it’s a phony hack. You may know that the notorious hacker Guccifer 2.0 was responsible for the DNC and DNCC hack attacks, which resulted in the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Shultz. But what you may not know is that […]
Voter Registration Systems of over 20 US States Already Targeted by Hackers- DHS Officials – Usual suspect: Russia. Hackers are hell-bent on sabotaging the US presidential elections due to be held in November this year and they are leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that they create troubles for the authorities. We have already informed […]
2.9 Million voters’ data means the entire State of Louisiana — It shows how vulnerable the US cyber infrastructure is. In June 2016 HackRead exclusively reported about a hacker who was selling a quarter Million State of Louisiana drivers’ licence database on the Darknet. Now, a security researcher has discovered a publicly available database named ‘lavoter’ containing voters’ […]
The American Presidential candidate Donald Trump is known for his frequent use of social media or sometimes security breaches that take place on his hotel’s servers and election campaign website. Now, his official website is found leaking personal data related to those who applied for the internship at his election campaign. Information leaks from Trump’s […]
Today, politicians are tracking voters’ every move on social media, including Facebook “friends” and “likes,” YouTube views, LinkedIn activity, Pinterest pins and so much more. They’re also able to get their hands on information such as which magazines voters subscribe to and which charities they donate to. Creepy – but legal. Andrew Hay, CISO of […]
Two Hong Hong government departments were targeted by Chinese hackers belonging the APT3 group just before the legislative elections. Security experts from FireEye have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign launched by the Chinese APT3 group against Hong Kong Government before upcoming parliamentary elections that are to be held today September 4. The hackers targeted two Hong Kong government departments […]
Illinois & Arizona’s Voter Registration systems Attacked by Foreign Govt Sponsored Hackers- Claims FBI In June and July 2016, the voter registration systems of Illinois and Arizona were hacked by unknown attackers. The FBI stated that bureau alerted the officials regarding the incident — It is being speculated that Russians are the perpetrators of this […]
Republican and Democratic Networks’ Computer Systems were hacked — Attackers also hacked Donald Trump’s election campaign staff! The computer systems of Presidential candidate Donald Trump and other networks of Republican and Democratic parties were attacked by unknown attackers. In the attack, it is speculated that the email account of a member of Trump’s election campaign staff was […]
A hacker is selling US voters’ registration records on the Dark Net and looks like the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has no clue! It’s raining confidential data on the Dark Net. It seems that every few days someone is offering data on there that wouldn’t be available otherwise. Recently, we discovered a seller going by […]
Someone leaked entire Mexican voter data on the Internet and it was not even password protected A database containing voter data of each and every Mexican citizen was available on the Internet without any password protection. This means the records of 93.4 million Mexican voters were out there for anyone to access without any restriction […]
It has been learned that an Anonymous hacker who is actually a 23-year old fresh IT graduate has been arrested on charges of involvement in the alleged hacking of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website On March 27, the hacktivist group Anonymous’ Philippines attacked the Comelec website and defaced it to prove their point that […]
Employees at Facebook asked Mark Zuckerberg if Facebook can stop Donald Trump from becoming the next president of the United States? Facebook is the biggest social media platform worldwide and has an important role in spreading information and news. Though Facebook gets a say in how that news gets there. This matters as now employees […]
Anonymous Philippines hacks Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website, leaks 55 Million voter data The Filipino front of online hacktivist Anonymous is in the war against their government for the last couple of years with defacements of websites and leaving messages against the policy makers. Now, once again Anonymous Philippines has hacked and defaced the official website of country’s election […]
For 8 Years Elections in Nine Latin American Countries Successfully Rigged and Spied by a Colombian Last month we reported how a Brazilian hacker claimed to have hacked election voting machine in the country and rigged the elections in favor of the political party in power. But, now another hacker has claimed to do the […]
Hackers state that electronic voting machines in Brazil are deliberately flawed with serious vulnerabilities The electronic ballot boxes are controversial in Brazil, many experts believe that the electronic voting machines or ballot boxes are susceptible to fraud and hackers can easily change the results. But it seems it’s not the only problem: A hacker apparently […]