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Websites for Both U.S. Presidential Candidates Targeted on Eve of Election

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:10AM   
from the while-we-are-waiting-for-the-election-results dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/304859-attackers-target-fail-to-down-candidate-sites

Researchers say "unsophisticated actors" tried — and failed — to take down the websites of both major presidential nominees just ahead of Election Day. In a 16-hour stretch between Sunday and Monday, the security firm Flashpoint detected four distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against the websites of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The attacks used the same open-source tool [Mirai] that briefly knocked Twitter and The New York Times offline on Oct. 21.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/campaign-websites-under-attack/506942/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/08/was_iot_ddos_attack_just_a_dry_run_for_election_day/

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Original Submission

• “unsophisticated actors” “unsophisticated actors” (Score: 4, Funny) by BK on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:46AM

  by BK (4868) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:46AM (#424346)

  “unsophisticated actors”

  So... basically all of them? In interviews, virtually all actors strike me as unsophisticated...

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  ...but you HAVE heard of me.

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• Re:“unsophisticated actors” (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:08AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:08AM (#424349)

  And BK is revealed as a wanker_monkey sockpuppet account.

  Parent