Fri
May 18 2018
01:45 am
Knox County: We've Been Hacked
By: Lisa Starbuck

According to this story in the Sentinel, Knox County got hacked election night and the distributed-denial-of-service attack that made the election results unavailable was a smokescreen for a more invasive attack. Somebody hacked a county server and had a look around while everyone was distracted by the election website being down. The FBI and Homeland Security is investigating. It's kind of hard to believe that this elaborate attack was just someone deciding to have a quick look around on a county server.

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NPR's Morning Edition yesterday

Submitted by Factchecker on Fri, 2018/05/18 - 8:10am.

(link...)

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Getting clearer all the time

Submitted by Factchecker on Fri, 2018/05/18 - 8:15am.

Getting clearer all the time that if 88,000 strategically located deplorable racists didn't elect Trump, Russia flipped just that many votes to produce our current predicament. Either way, why is there so much complacency?

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Hold on!

Submitted by danandrews on Wed, 2018/05/23 - 5:37am.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/38185216/ukraine-computer-involved-in-knoxville-elections-attack

Joyce McCants, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Knoxville, said Knox County has not reached out to the FBI in relation to the website crash.

So the county is saying they reached out to the FBI and the FBI is saying no they didn't.

Folks, a lot of stuff is not adding up.

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Even more crazy...

Submitted by danandrews on Wed, 2018/05/23 - 7:12am.

The attackers had hacked into a county server and looked around. No personal or confidential information was in the server, only publicly available information like court dockets, Moran said.

“It was not an attempt to actually change any data or put anything onto our servers; it was an attempt to take things off of our servers, to read what was there … they were looking to get things, not give things,” Ball said.

Now I am not an expert. But Lisa is...so Lisa I am going to ask you, in your opinion shouldn't your entire server be encrypted that way if a hacker gets on your server they cannot differentiate between open source and closed private info?

One last thing, they used Google Analytics instead of Google Trends. Wouldn't they have been able to tell if the bandwidth usage was consistant with Google Inquires?

A lot of things just are not adding up here...

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