Hackers and Spending Sprees
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a federal investigation, NewsWeek reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of "phishing," a form of hacking often employed to steal passwords or credit-card numbers. But by the next day, both the FBI and ...
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That both hackers and foreign intelligence agencies get attracted by political parties information systems seems an evidence. What's interresting is the process put in place by the FBI to monitor and counter such attacks.