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

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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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:48AM (#424354)

    top kek!

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