How a hacker network attacks will "ruin" United States presidential election? -IT information

Beijing time on November 6, according to foreign media reports, this year's United States election is "colorful", in addition to the candidate suffered a lot of criticism, and even the hackers to join in the fun. Security experts warned that the 8th United States presidential election day, hackers could make United States suffered nightmares of cyber attacks.

In the past few months, United States has suffered a number of serious Internet attacks, resulting in hundreds of famous website crashed, including Netflix and eBay.

In addition to palsy site, hackers expose two candidates of black pioneer. At first, Trump was caught Erica, he recorded exposure of discrimination against women. A few days Hillary not happy with the result, his unsavory past was dug out by hackers, the support rate plummeted, Trump began taking advantage of the counterattack.

The future, that this black material may be more hacker news I'm afraid is brewing a great deal. Worst case, hackers may be multifaceted disorder in the United States election. They might release more secret documents (true and false question) to destroy a certain candidate, and break the Audio-Visual Web site providing real-time intelligence to disrupt voters.

Here are a few hackers can "ruin" United States General elections:

Disrupting the voting process

Before the general election officially began, United States, 10 States indicated that their voting systems had been harassed by a hacker. Fears that the election voting systems security will be threatened by hackers, United States Department of Homeland Security, said if there is a need to ask Governments to contact them as soon as possible, in order to enhance the reliability of voting system ahead of the election.

Of course, the United States voting system is not likely to be completely compromised because the system "old high", and interspersed with a variety of complex techniques, so that it can stop large-scale attacks. In addition, the presidential vote is not electronic, most United States citizens will go to the polls to fill paint still votes.

However, some technologically advanced States have used the electronic voting system, they may be hacking will become the main "victim". For example, the United States has 32 States with e-mail and faxes, which are easy to be manipulated by hackers in two ways, voters may pending the outcome of the election votes to send voters a false information, in order to influence their judgment.

5 States using electronic voting systems, some time ago to "capture" half the United States repeat of the DDoS attack is very likely, hackers temporarily blocks the release of polling data, disrupt voters ' judgment. Meanwhile, DDoS attacks may have paralyzed voter registration system (connected to the Internet), as well as to disturb the voting process.

Or select the exposure before the election hard materials

The election officially began just two days, the hacker might once again within two days, "to bite" Debunking one or two candidate's unsavory past. Security experts also warned that hackers may use this type of information (true and false question) to interfere with voters ' choices.

Anomali Falar, Director of security company, said: "this election the most deadly is the sudden release of candidates before the election of black material. This information is unconfirmed, but it could destroy a candidate's fate, if the election fails and then proved to be false information would not help. ”

In addition, compared with first broken voting system, exposure, the candidate of black material easier, lethality is greater, it is likely to cause public opinion turned. Continuous fermentation of Hillary Clinton the message at the moment the door is the best proof of that.

Stop voters go to the polls

Many in the industry think that in late October the United States paralysed, large-scale attacks by hackers on the Internet preview of general election, after the start of formal, larger attack on the hackers may be making a comeback.

In the worst cases, hackers can control Twitter to disseminate false information, they may also capture maps, so that voters could not be learned where to vote.

Quora company CEO Angelo (former Facebook CTO) says "November 8 general election the likelihood of large-scale Internet attack is very big, has the ability to carry out such attacks in the world's hackers are numerous. If hackers fail map application, could easily destroy elections, Friday's mass DDoS attacks are proof of that. ”

This is not alarmist, through a Web camera they can be served off Twitter, Spotify, CNN and other large Web site hacking is not an ordinary person. Meanwhile, this botnet attack called Mirai flooding in Liberia in recent days.

"The past few weeks, the Internet backbone of Liberia was repeatedly harassed by a hacker," Beaumont, computer security experts said. "Botnet incident in Liberia may be in the United States again. ”

If the United States were similar attacks on polling day, there may be tens of thousands of people unable to vote, while civil breeds fear, because this election may have been controlled by hackers.

United States assisting the Electoral Commission said, this election's biggest vulnerability may be lurking in the voter registration system, because it is closely associated with the Internet. The Committee said: "in order to prevent the occurrence of such accidents, we have embedded security software in the system, and voters also backed up, if the attack can be restored in a timely manner. Also this time we cannot slack off, have been increasing the security level of the system. ”

Meanwhile, they said, "because the voting system is not connected to the Internet, and federal, State and local governments have carried out stress tests, so hackers less threatening. ”

General election on the back of "fraud" of betrayal

Finally, hackers may disrupt the normal election process technology, from the media for the public was informed in real time on election, it is against United States electoral tradition but will also cause voters to panic.

8th general election begins, 3,144 local governments across the United States will start counting and declared the day of the vote through the media. Hackers may be this link, and let undecided voters doubted the fairness of the election.

Of course, the hacker may not shake the United States General elections, but will leave Trump an excuse if he fails in the general election, may find the "cheating" the issue down, United States politics certainly will usher in a storm.

"Election night, the associated press's voice, the system may have been hacked," researchers at security firm f-secure said Sullivan. "Although the hacker may not be able to destroy the voting system, but may vote tampering with election night results. ”

"Even if you can't tamper with the results, hackers may also be released through DDoS companies delay AP statistics, but in today's environment, the result of delayed post raises speculation about election fraud. ”

Such is not the figment of the imagination, after all, the year 2014 Ukraine elections had suffered from interference by hackers, they make the original real-time voting statistics released 20 hours late. Meanwhile, in 12 minutes before the close of polling, also captured the Central Election Commission's website, released ahead of the final results of the presidential election.

黑客网络攻击将如何“毁掉”美国总统大选？ - IT资讯

北京时间11月6日消息，据外媒报道，今年的美国大选可谓“异彩纷呈”，除了竞选者遭受颇多非议，就连黑客们也来凑热闹。安全专家警告称，本月8日美国总统大选当天，黑客可能会让美国遭受噩梦般的网络攻击。

过去几个月内，美国已经遭受了多次严重的互联网攻击，造成数百个著名网站瘫痪，其中就包括Netflix和eBay等。

除了搞瘫网站，黑客们还成了曝光两位总统候选人黑料的急先锋。起先，特朗普被抓住小辫子，他歧视女性的录音曝光。结果希拉里还没高兴几天，自己的老底也被黑客给挖了出来，造成支持率一落千丈，特朗普也开始趁势反击。

未来，这样的黑料可能会越来越多，黑客们恐怕都正在酝酿着搞个大新闻呢。最坏的情况下，黑客可能会多管齐下来扰乱本次美国大选。他们可能会放出更多的秘密文档（真假性存疑）来摧毁某一位候选人，同时攻破提供实时选情的网站来扰乱选民视听。

下面就是几种黑客可能会“毁掉”美国大选的方式：

扰乱投票进程

在大选正式开始前，美国有10个州都表示它们的投票系统受到过黑客的袭扰。因此人们担心大选时投票系统的安全会受到黑客的威胁，美国国土安全局表示，如果有需要请各地政府尽快联系他们，以便在大选前增强投票系统的可靠性。

当然，美国投票系统被彻底攻破的可能性并不大，因为这套系统“年岁已高”，而且其中穿插了各种复杂的技术，因此它能阻挡大规模的攻击。此外，现在的总统大选投票并未电子化，大多数美国民众还是愿意到投票点填涂选票。

不过，有些技术先进的州已经用上了电子投票系统，它们可能将成为黑客攻击的主要“受害者”。举例来说，美国有32个州使用电邮和传真，而这两种方式都很容易被黑客操纵，选民可能会在大选结果公布前给选民发送虚假的得票信息，以便影响他们的判断。

而对于5个使用电子投票系统的州来说，前段时间“攻陷”大半个美国的DDoS攻击则很有可能重演，黑客们将暂时阻断投票数据的发布，扰乱选民的判断。同时，DDoS攻击可能还会瘫痪选民登记系统（与互联网相连），并以此干扰投票进程。

选前或选中再曝猛料

离大选正式开始只剩两天了，这两天内黑客可能再次“发威”揭穿一个或两个候选人的老底。安全专家也警告称黑客可能会通过此类信息（真假性存疑）来干扰选民的选择。

安全公司Anomali的主管法拉尔表示：“对本次大选杀伤力最大的就是选前突然放出的竞选者黑料。这些信息未经证实，但它却可能毁掉一位竞选者的命运，如果大选失败后再证明这是虚假信息也于事无补了。”

此外，与第一种攻破投票系统的方式相比，曝光竞选人黑料的方法更简单，杀伤力也更大，它很容易造成民意的转向。眼下不断发酵的希拉里邮件门就是最好的明证。

阻止选民前去投票

许多业内人士认为，十月底的美国互联网大瘫痪只是黑客大规模攻击的预演，在大选正式开始后，黑客们可能会卷土重来发动更大规模的攻击。

在最坏的情况下，黑客可能会控制Twitter来散播虚假信息，它们可能还会攻陷地图应用，让选民无法获知投票地点。

Quora公司CEO安杰罗（前Facebook首席技术官）表示“11月8日大选出现大规模互联网攻击的可能性很大，世界上有能力实施此类攻击的黑客组织数不胜数。如果黑客废掉地图应用，很轻松就能毁掉大选，上周五的大规模DDoS攻击就是最好的证明。”

这真的不是危言耸听，通过一个网络摄像头就能端掉Twitter、Spotify、CNN等大型网站的黑客绝不是等闲之辈。同时，这套名为Mirai的僵尸网络攻击法最近一段时间在利比里亚也泛滥开来。

“过去几周来，利比里亚的互联网主干多次遭到黑客的袭扰，”计算机安全专家博蒙特说道。“利比里亚的僵尸网络事件可能会在美国重演。”

如果美国在大选当天遭到类似攻击，可能会有数万人无法到场投票，同时民间会滋生担忧情绪，因为本次大选可能已经被黑客掌控。

美国协助选举委员会表示，本次大选最大的漏洞可能就潜藏在选民登记系统中，因为它与互联网紧密相联。该委员会表示：“为了防止此类事故发生，我们已经在系统中植入了安防软件，同时选民名单也进行了备份，如果遭到攻击可以及时恢复。同时这段时间我们也不敢懈怠，一直在增强系统的安全防御级别。”

同时，它们表示：“由于投票系统并未连接互联网，且联邦、州和各地方政府都对其进行过压力测试，因此黑客的威胁性较小。”

让大选背上“舞弊”的骂名

最后，黑客可能通过技术手段扰乱正常的选举程序，公众根本无法从媒体上获知实时选情，这有违美国的选举传统而且会造成选民恐慌。

8号大选开始后，全美3144个地方政府都会开始计票并通过媒体来宣布当天的投票结果。而黑客可能就会在此环节下手，让还未投票的选民怀疑此次大选的公平性。

当然，黑客此举可能并不会动摇此次美国大选，但却会给特朗普留下口实，如果他在大选中失败，可能会揪着“作弊”这一问题不放，美国政坛必然又将迎来一场风暴。

“大选之夜，美联社的唱票系统可能会遭到黑客攻击，”安全公司F-Secure的研究者苏利文说道。“虽然黑客可能无力毁掉投票系统，但可能会篡改大选之夜的投票统计结果。”

“即使无法篡改结果，黑客可能也会通过DDoS公司拖延美联社发布统计结果，而在现在的环境下，结果的延迟发布会引起人们对大选舞弊的猜测。”

此类情况并非凭空想象，毕竟2014年时乌克兰大选就曾遭遇过黑客的干扰，他们让原本实时统计的投票数晚了20小时才发布。同时，在投票结束前12分钟，黑客还攻陷了中央选举委员会的网站，提前发布了总统大选的最终结果。