Security News
Plenty of voter data is public in Arizona - but Social Security numbers and DoBs are supposed to be kept confidential. The security issue comes to light amid attacks targeting voters and voter data.
The DontTouchTheGreenButton.com website just launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently filed Arizona "Rejected votes" lawsuit was discovered to be leaking voter data. The data included the voter name, address, and a unique identifier.
A US federal judge on Friday issued an injunction temporarily blocking an executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at banning TikTok, throwing up a legal roadblock ahead of a November 12 deadline. TikTok influencers suing the president over the ban convinced US District Court Wendy Beetlestone to issue the injunction against it.
Security researchers believe that compromised credentials were used by hackers to access the content management system behind Donald Trump's campaign website. According to WordPress security solutions provider Defiant, which develops the Wordfence product, the hackers most likely used compromised credentials for access, supposedly targeting the underlying Expression Engine content management system, which is an alternative to WordPress.
UPDATE. Hackers took over President Trump's 2020 election campaign website late Tuesday, replacing parts of the site with a cryptocurrency scam before returning it to its original content several minutes later. "While the hacked page claimed that the threat actors responsible compromised"multiple devices" that gave them "full access" to internal and secret conversations" of "Trump and relatives," there is no evidence that these statements are true, according to the Trump campaign.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign website was briefly hacked and defaced tonight. It claimed, alongside US government seals, "This site was seized" because "The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded [sic] daily by President Donald J Trump."
Hackers briefly broke into Donald Trump's campaign website on Tuesday, just a week before Election Day, officials and reports said. "The world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded daily by president donald j trump", the message went to say, US media reported.
Donald Trump's Twitter password was easily guessed, and he still isn't using multi-factor authentication, claims a Dutch hacker who on Thursday bragged he broke into the President's account last week. Twitter was having none of it, though: the password guessing nor the link posting.
Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers claims it only took five attempts to guess the password to President Donald Trump's Twitter account - "Maga2020!". Twitter Safety & 2FA. Twitter said it is dubious about the report.
Menacing emails to Democratic voters, telling them to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming US elections or else, were sent by Iran, US intelligence claimed on Wednesday night. At a press conference tonight, Uncle Sam's Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the messages were actually sent by Iranian agents, who had obtained US voter records, including contact details, seemingly to intimidate Americans.