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Midterm hacking attempts last week during a security forum in aspen. >> earlier this year we discovered a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and saw meta data that suggested those attacks were being directed at three candidates standing for election in the midterm elections. i can tell you they are people because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. >> the missouri senator has been highly critical of russia and is a top democrat facing tough election cha...

Summer of 2001. dan coates saying he's deliberately choosing that same language to talk about the threat we're now facing including from russia toward our next election. after dan coates made those sort of alarming remarks two fridays ago, a vice president at microsoft gave a speech where he announced that microsoft had found at least three congressional campaigns for this year's midterms that were already being attacked by russian state sponsored hackers. >> we did discover a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and stau data that suggested those...

Attempt. president trump was in missouri chastising mccaskill and asking the crowd to vote her our office. we first learned of russia's midterm hacking attempts last week during a security forum. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and saw metadata suggesting those attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all stand are for election in the mid-term elections. all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election ...

Details how bad actors operate. they target voting infrastructure like voting machines. they steal and weaponize voter data. help politicians with compromising email to damaging political opponents. spread false information and rely on unlawful lobbiying efforts. same hackers who went after the clinton emails remain active. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw metadata that suggests that those phishing attacks were being directed three candidates all standing for election in midterm elections....

Expires so no one can forward it, a screen capture with the camera, sensitive data. the biggest problem is putting links inside of email is a no-no from any security expert on the planet. that is where phishing attacks happen where people put a link that looks very real but instead takes you to a very bad place and they will try to capture your credit card numbers or other personal information or sneak software onto your device. jillian: what can people do? i don't know how to avoid this. >> the redesign of gmail is not for everybody but will be coming by the end of the year. in the meantime w...