Tag: cyberattack

06 NOV

With no evidence, Georgia’s top voting official accuses Dems of “cyberattack”

Enlarge / Georgia voter stickers lie on a table at CT Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center on October 18, 2018, in Atlanta, Georgia. (credit: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) In the run-up to nationwide elections set for Tuesday, the Secretary of State of Georgia has made explosive and seemingly unsubstantiated allegations that the Democratic Party of Georgia […]

23 AUG

Russian hackers not found… again: DNC retracts claim voter database targeted by cyber-attack

The latest alarming news on a sophisticated cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee’s voter database may have cemented one’s worst fears over Russia hacking into the US elections… except it was really a “phishing test.” Bob Lord, the committee’s chief security officer, raised the alarm on Wednesday after detecting a fake login page that mimicked […]

14 AUG

House Democrats are demanding answers from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai about his now-debunked cyberattack claim

Alex Wong/Getty Images Some of the leading Democratic members of the House of Representatives committee that oversees the Federal Communications Commission sent a letter Tuesday to Ajit Pai, the agency’s chairman. In the letter, the representatives criticized Pai for falsely claiming that the FCC was the victim of a cyberattack last year. The representatives demanded […]

18 MAR

Russian Central Election Commission comes under cyberattack

There is an ongoing cyberattack on Russia’s Central Election Commission, targeting its information center, the body’s secretary has said. The commission’s website earlier came under a DDoS attack from 15 countries. “We are registering what is in fact a cyberattack on our information center,” the commission’s secretary, Maya Grishina, said. READ MORE: Russians vote in presidential […]

16 FEB

White House blames Russia for NotPetya cyberattack

(Reuters) –The White House on Thursday blamed Russia for the devastating ‘NotPetya’ cyberattack last year, joining the British government in condemning Moscow for unleashing a virus that crippled parts of Ukraine’s infrastructure and damaged computers in countries across the globe. The attack launched in June 2017 by the Russian military “spread worldwide, causing billions of […]

11 FEB

Olympics officials confirm cyberattack during opening ceremony

Officials saw suspicious activity on Olympics systems during the 2018 winter games’ opening ceremony, and now it’s confirmed: it was a cyberattack. PyeongChang organizers have revealed that someone compromised services (including internet and TV) while athletes were on parade. Everything had been “resolved and recovered” by the 9th, spokesman Sung Baik-you said. He added that […]

10 FEB

Winter Olympics organizers say a cyberattack took down their computer servers during opening ceremonies

NBC Sports Live Winter Olympics organizers say a cyberattack hit their computer servers during the opening ceremonies, Yonhap reported on Saturday. The attack only affected “non-critical systems,” the organizers said. The cyberattack follows a string of previous incidents involving various Winter Olympics computer systems, including a spying operation that is believed to have originated from […]