{"id":5853,"date":"2018-11-06T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:05:43","slug":"hackers-targeting-the-midterm-elections-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/11\/06\/hackers-targeting-the-midterm-elections-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Targeting the Midterm Elections Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some reports that hackers are trying really hard to hack the midterm elections.\u00a0 Some are saying they aren&#8217;t successful, but others are saying misinformation being spread by them are causing enough damage.\u00a0 Targets include the voter registration databases, election officials, and networks across the country.\u00a0 They are trying to injections of malicious computer code to a massive number of bogus requests for voter registration forms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also battling this front by removing bogus accounts that partake in these activities.\u00a0 Given it&#8217;s voting day, have you guys seen any evidence of this yourselves?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2018\/11\/04\/hackers-targeting-election-networks-across-country-lead-midterms\/d0EzG4Cmh2jeMqllhXo4WP\/story.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/11\/6\/18067756\/2018-midterm-election-russia-hacking-interference-meddling-china-iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some reports that hackers are trying really hard to hack the midterm elections.\u00a0 Some are saying they aren&#8217;t successful, but others are saying misinformation being spread by them are causing enough damage.\u00a0 Targets include the voter registration databases, election officials, and networks across the country.\u00a0 They are trying to injections of malicious computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716794],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-10-monitoring-evaluating-it","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}