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Campaign 2018: Election Hacking is a weekly series from CBS News CNET about the cyber-threats and vulnerabilities of the 2018 midterm election.The best hacks are always the simplest.When Russian hackers successfully attacked Hillary Clinton s presidential campaign chairman John Podesta in 2016, they didn t need to use crippling ransomware or a complex zero-day exploit. Instead, the Russians used one of the oldest tricks in the hac stanley canada ker playbook: Email phishing. Phishing is all about the bad guy mdash; the attacker mdash; sending a malicious email to a victim and fooling that person either to click on a link within the email or open up an attachment, said hacker and computer security consultant Kevin Mitnick in an interview with stanley cups uk CBS News. When the victim [clicks the link or opens the attachment] their computer ends up being compromised and malware is installed so the bad guy has full control. The goal of phishing attacks like those aimed at the Clinton campaign in 2016, says Mitnick, is to swipe sensitiv stanley cups uk e information or to implant malware that will give the attacker access to the entire network. Once inside, hackers can move laterally across the computer system and swipe information from multiple email accounts, copy intellectual property, and cause irreparable damage. READ: How to spot a phishing emailThe Russian hackers sent Podesta an email that looked like it was coming from Gmail, prompting him to change his password. When Cycq Trump s margin of victory in Iowa GOP caucuses smashed previous record
This Sunday s guests on Face the Nation are Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey and Republican Senator John McCain.The Republican race for the nomination was kicked out of the headlines this week by an unpre stanley quencher cedented budget review of the nation s defense spending and pledge to cut the nearly half a trillion dollars as required by Congress s inaction to reach a widespread budget reduction plan. All this as Iran s nuclear ambitions seem to grow stronger by the day and the hostile nation has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, putting pressure on world oil prices. The Department of Defense will play its part in helping the nation put our fiscal house in order, said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in unveiling the plan Thursday. But the plan isn t just a budget cut, it s a shift in the priorities of the department to spend money on rebuilding the new military, ready to face the challenges of the new century. The department would need to make a strategic shift regardless of the nation s fiscal situation. We are at that point in history. That s the reality of the world we live in, said Panetta. The plan requires less focus on traditional ground wars and long counter-insurgency operations like the wars in I kubki stanley raq and Afghanistan, in favor of a more agile force focusing on Special Operations forces and techno stanley quencher logy. We are confronting the threats of the 21st century, said P
Campaign 2018: Election Hacking is a weekly series from CBS News CNET about the cyber-threats and vulnerabilities of the 2018 midterm election.The best hacks are always the simplest.When Russian hackers successfully attacked Hillary Clinton s presidential campaign chairman John Podesta in 2016, they didn t need to use crippling ransomware or a complex zero-day exploit. Instead, the Russians used one of the oldest tricks in the hac stanley canada ker playbook: Email phishing. Phishing is all about the bad guy mdash; the attacker mdash; sending a malicious email to a victim and fooling that person either to click on a link within the email or open up an attachment, said hacker and computer security consultant Kevin Mitnick in an interview with stanley cups uk CBS News. When the victim [clicks the link or opens the attachment] their computer ends up being compromised and malware is installed so the bad guy has full control. The goal of phishing attacks like those aimed at the Clinton campaign in 2016, says Mitnick, is to swipe sensitiv stanley cups uk e information or to implant malware that will give the attacker access to the entire network. Once inside, hackers can move laterally across the computer system and swipe information from multiple email accounts, copy intellectual property, and cause irreparable damage. READ: How to spot a phishing emailThe Russian hackers sent Podesta an email that looked like it was coming from Gmail, prompting him to change his password. When Cycq Trump s margin of victory in Iowa GOP caucuses smashed previous record
This Sunday s guests on Face the Nation are Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey and Republican Senator John McCain.The Republican race for the nomination was kicked out of the headlines this week by an unpre stanley quencher cedented budget review of the nation s defense spending and pledge to cut the nearly half a trillion dollars as required by Congress s inaction to reach a widespread budget reduction plan. All this as Iran s nuclear ambitions seem to grow stronger by the day and the hostile nation has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, putting pressure on world oil prices. The Department of Defense will play its part in helping the nation put our fiscal house in order, said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in unveiling the plan Thursday. But the plan isn t just a budget cut, it s a shift in the priorities of the department to spend money on rebuilding the new military, ready to face the challenges of the new century. The department would need to make a strategic shift regardless of the nation s fiscal situation. We are at that point in history. That s the reality of the world we live in, said Panetta. The plan requires less focus on traditional ground wars and long counter-insurgency operations like the wars in I kubki stanley raq and Afghanistan, in favor of a more agile force focusing on Special Operations forces and techno stanley quencher logy. We are confronting the threats of the 21st century, said P
