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Thu Jan 09 13:00:45 +0000 2020

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

So far it seems the hackers have had limited success, mostly defacing a website here and there. Likely the work of “patriotic" amateurs and not serious professionals, experts say. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Denial-of-service attacks accounted for some of the attack traffic, but a large share of the malicious activity consisted of probing for network vulnerabilities. That’s consistent with what Texas officials have said, which is that at one point they were seeing 10,000 scans/min. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

But US officials are still warning people to stay on alert. @SenBlumenthal told me he came away from a classified DHS cyber briefing this week concerned about ransomware — malicious software that takes over a computer and won’t release it unless the victim pays up. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 9, 2020 Hibernated

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