Sentences with phrase «targeting election systems»
Top federal officials have concluded that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 states and breached that of at least one, Illinois, during the last election cycle.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said Homeland Security told 21 states that «Russian government cyber actors» targeted their state voter registration systems in 2016.
The upshot is that Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure may need to be included on the list of critical infrastructure targets, which includes utilities, transportation systems, financial markets and most recently election systems.
And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel told USA TODAY that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked to the website The Intercept.
This contract, which is dated September 15, 2014, is for the: «Design and development of an Engagement Platform System», also referred to as «the Ripon Platform», and described as: «A scalable engagement platform that leverages the strength of SCLs modelling data, providing an actionable toolset and dashboard interface for the target campaigns in the 2014 election cycle.
Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.
Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.
To address why Wandsworth is described as a key target, it's necessary to summarise the electoral system for UK national elections, as well as local elections in England and Wales.
Earlier this year, the Times reported that the group was targeting «10 to 15 House lawmakers whose records and public statements have not been supportive of what Mr. Soros calls a system of «citizen - led» elections.»
Also, the organization works to professionalize the system by helping ECOWAS carry out various actions to improve electoral governance in the region through programs targeted at strengthening the legal and institutional framework for organizing elections.
The NDC, prior to the election in 2016, commenced the registration of its members through a biometric system targeting to capture about 1.5 million members of the party.
The federal government told election officials in 21 states — not New York — that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached.
California's effort to build and upgrade the nation's largest student - level data system has taken a rocky path, and that has made the system a target in this fall's state superintendent elections.
«It's unacceptable that it took almost a year after the election to notify states that their elections systems were targeted, but I'm relieved that DHS has acted upon our numerous requests and is finally informing the top elections officials in all 21 affected states that Russian hackers tried to breach their systems in the run up to the 2016 election,» Warner said.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security notified nearly half of the U.S. states that their election systems were targeted by Russia - affiliated hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 electi
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security notified nearly half of the U.S. states that their election systems were targeted by Russia - affiliated hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 election.
The Wisconsin Election Commission, for example, said the state's systems were targeted by «Russian government cyber actors.»
Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.
On June 21, 2017, nearly eight months after election day, in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, NPPD's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Jeanette Manfra confirmed for the first time that «election - related systems in 21 states were targeted» by Russian cyber actors during the 2016 election cycle.
«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.
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security notified election officials in 21 states that their systems had been targeted by hackers during the 2016 election.
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