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FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
YAHOO News ^ | August 29, 2016 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 08/29/2016 7:42:23 AM PDT by maggief

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.

The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.

Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cybersecurity; election; election2016; electionsystems; fbi; fraud; hacking; voterfraud; votingmachines
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To: maggief
The culprits...



21 posted on 08/29/2016 7:58:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: stars & stripes forever

No, the biggest voter fraud in the world was Obama being elected....TWICE!


22 posted on 08/29/2016 7:58:47 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: maggief; PennsylvaniaMom; haircutter; PA Engineer; Dr. Scarpetta; WVNan; NIKK; nikos1121

See post 10

This system has been de certified in several states (including IN & CA)
Contact state SOS office if they are not cooperative state RNC should be contacted and encourage to hire legal help


23 posted on 08/29/2016 7:59:06 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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To: All

According to Odumbo, the ruskies are not a problem.


24 posted on 08/29/2016 7:59:44 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: BradyLS
Translation: “The excuse will be ‘foreign hackers.’”

Think that's why there have been the stories about the DNC and all the other liberal groups getting hacked? To deflect liability from them. I can hear them now. "It wasn't us, we got hacked, too."

25 posted on 08/29/2016 8:00:40 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: maggief

The liberals have already fingered the Russians as the hackers who leaked Hillary’s missing emails (something I still doubt is true) so if the Russians hack state election systems, it can only be - in liberal logic - that the Russians will rig the election for Donald Trump, otherwise the Left wouldn’t be reporting it and sending out alerts.

If anyone, including George Soros or the Chinese, were rigging the election for Hillary Clinton, you would never hear about it since it would not be new or news.

Remember 2004 when liberals began claiming that exit polls showing John Francois Kerry, who served in Vietnam, PROVED that Kerry should have won so, therefore, Bush and Diebold cheated to rig the election? Be prepared for any Trump win to be labelled “illegitimate” and “rigged” and clamor that their POLLS which showed Hillary winning should be given greater weight than the actual election returns.

Sending alerts like this is laying out the cover story for a Trump victory in November. There’s no other way to interpret this. And since cheaters think the only way somebody can beat them is by cheating, the liberals have to invent their own storyline as to how the election was “stolen” from them.

This and the HuffPo story about Trump winning because the election is now reality television are the best evidence yet that Trump is not way like the news media is trying to convince you is true.


26 posted on 08/29/2016 8:01:12 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (With what can already be proved, how can you trust Hillary as POTUS?)
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To: lonevoice

So the DHS will offer help to provide federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities. The fix is in.


27 posted on 08/29/2016 8:01:31 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: maggief
I wonder what kind of deal Putin is offering Clinton. I am sure it doesn't involve him paying her cash.

I wonder if she will tell him that she will have more ability to deal after the election like the Big Zero did?

28 posted on 08/29/2016 8:01:45 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: maggief

Has the FBI indeed proved it’s the Russians? Or could it be someone else?


29 posted on 08/29/2016 8:02:00 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutterThe media fix is in)
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To: Trumplican

All she is doing is fund-raisers. I am guessing her need for so much money is for cash payments to some voters who may or may not be bussed to vote in multiple locations, since all of the MSM thinks she has the election all tied up already. Bribes to commit voter fraud en masse, IMHO.


30 posted on 08/29/2016 8:02:06 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: LucyT; onyx; Jim Robinson

We may need to make this (18) a thread under activisim


31 posted on 08/29/2016 8:02:18 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

The media will blame Russia & claim “Putin stole the election” as part of a ploy to discredit a Trump win.


32 posted on 08/29/2016 8:03:15 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: treetopsandroofs

The media will blame Russia & claim “Putin stole the election” as part of a ploy to discredit a Trump win.


33 posted on 08/29/2016 8:03:19 AM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: Cowboy Bob

You want to rethink that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t75xvZ3osFg&feature=youtu.be


34 posted on 08/29/2016 8:04:19 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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To: maggief

How much did the DNC pay them?


35 posted on 08/29/2016 8:04:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: OrangeHoof

“not way behind”


36 posted on 08/29/2016 8:06:21 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (With what can already be proved, how can you trust Hillary as POTUS?)
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To: maggief

Pencils, paper ballots, purple-inked fingers. It’s the only way, now.


37 posted on 08/29/2016 8:07:43 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: maggief
Coming from the FBI, oh we can trust that info. /s Just like when the FBI raids a democrat officials office after the official has been exposed as a criminal, the FBI takes everything that would be incriminating evidence but that evidence always seems to go missing, by mistake of course. Yep, those FBI personnel can all bumbling fools when ordered to be.
38 posted on 08/29/2016 8:08:03 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: maggief

Jeh Johnson offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure

To rig them more like


39 posted on 08/29/2016 8:08:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: stocksthatgoup

Article said last week it was probably someone as who was using Russian techniques or methods.


40 posted on 08/29/2016 8:08:44 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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