Sentences with phrase «hack election systems»

The request comes on the heels of emerging details around Russia's successful attempts to hack election systems in many states.

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In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

Or perhaps the Russians obtained information about voters (e.g. by hacking the state election system) that the campaign then used.

Kenya's election commission suffered a hacking attempt after this week's vote but the system was not compromised, its chairman said on Thursday.

Kenya's electoral commission has rejected opposition claims its IT system was hacked in order to manipulate Tuesday's election results.

Officials say New York's practice of using paper ballots makes the state's election system harder to hack.

Kenya opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said the electoral commission's IT system has been hacked to manipulate the election results.

Kenya's electoral commission has denied opposition claims its IT system had been hacked in order to manipulate Tuesday's election results.

The report was released following what has been described as «the worst hacking of U.S. government systems in history» and accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Initially filed on Thursday of last week, it cited the state - level election system hacking that the Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states including Alabama of this September in arguing that the state should hold onto the digital record of votes for at least six months rather than destroy them.

«The Department of Homeland Security notified our Secretary of State here that Alabama is one of the 21 states that had been targeting for hacking of election systems,» she said, referring to this year's special election for Georgia's 6th congressional district.

While there's a tendency to speak of the DNC hack and Russian disinformation efforts in the past tense, as we learn about them, Trend Micro's report underlines the active, ongoing nature of threats to U.S. political systems — one that's only going to escalate as we move into 2018's U.S. midterm elections.

In an effort to provide a more safe and secure system for voters, Russia's Central Election Commission is planning on implementing a blockchain - based voting system protected against hacking, rigging, and other forms of electioElection Commission is planning on implementing a blockchain - based voting system protected against hacking, rigging, and other forms of electionelection fraud.