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Officials: Russian hackers scanned Colorado’s election infrastructure last year but failed to breach it
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Russian hackers tried without success to get into Colorado’s computerized voter system before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Friday. The Department of Homeland Security informed Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office in a phone call before noon that Colorado was among states targeted last summer by hackers earlier identified…
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Officials: Colorado’s election infrastructure not among 39 states’ reportedly hit by Russian cyber attack
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Colorado’s computerized voter system doesn’t appear to have been targeted by Russian hackers who penetrated systems in two states last summer and reportedly tried to access files in dozens of other states before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Tuesday. While the Colorado system is subject to hundreds of…
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Williams disappointed at DHS election systems classification
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Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams has joined his peers across the country in expressing disappointment with the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to classify election systems as “critical infrastructure” without a promised collaboration process. A news release from Williams’ office said one concern is that the classification may give the federal government more control…
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FBI warns of possible state election-system hacks
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The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers breached related data systems in two states. In a confidential “flash” alert from its cyber division, first reported by Yahoo News and posted online by others, the FBI said it’s investigating the pair of incidents and advised states…
