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My guess is they're including requests for / A billion "hacks" per day seems a bit far fetched. At that point, it's either a visible act of war (if external t

My guess is they're including requests for / A billion "hacks" per day seems a bit far fetched. At that point, it's either a visible act of war (if external to the US) or the FBI would be much more involved (if internal). Both of those would be much larger news.

dylanhassinger 8y ago
Russia/NKO/China have been at digital war with USA for years
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is likely just people going through a dictionary trying to guess the password, rather than a cyberattack by a nation-state.
  - wavefunction 8y ago
    >people going through a dictionary trying to guess the password, rather than a cyberattack by a nation-state. Russia allows its cyber-criminals free-reign when it comes to the rest of the world, as long as they're not interfering with official interests. Consider the difference in Letters of Marque vs the Admiralty in British history.
orbitingpluto 8y ago
Wouldn't it be a good estimator to include ANY connections coming outside of Utah? I hope that whoever is attempting to hack the Utah voting system has no nefarious purpose greater than changing "Mitt" to "Mittens.
- CleanCodeCraft 8y ago
  Or outside the United States. You would think that they could somehow use geo-fencing that correspond to the districts that are under consideration. Rather than going back to paper counting some form of key-based two-way encryption that verifies voters within the state would be useful and more secure.
- eslaught 8y ago
  It would be like calling every individual connection made during a DDOS event an "attack". No, it's one attack. The number of connections merely indicates the size of the attack, and in this case possibly less because if it's implementing a brute force search over passwords, it could be very, very inefficient. In other words, it's marketing language designed to scare people who have no understanding of computer security.

dylanhassinger 8y ago

Russia/NKO/China have been at digital war with USA for years

saagarjha 8y ago
Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is likely just people going through a dictionary trying to guess the password, rather than a cyberattack by a nation-state.
- wavefunction 8y ago
  >people going through a dictionary trying to guess the password, rather than a cyberattack by a nation-state. Russia allows its cyber-criminals free-reign when it comes to the rest of the world, as long as they're not interfering with official interests. Consider the difference in Letters of Marque vs the Admiralty in British history.

orbitingpluto 8y ago

Wouldn't it be a good estimator to include ANY connections coming outside of Utah? I hope that whoever is attempting to hack the Utah voting system has no nefarious purpose greater than changing "Mitt" to "Mittens.

CleanCodeCraft 8y ago
Or outside the United States. You would think that they could somehow use geo-fencing that correspond to the districts that are under consideration. Rather than going back to paper counting some form of key-based two-way encryption that verifies voters within the state would be useful and more secure.
eslaught 8y ago
It would be like calling every individual connection made during a DDOS event an "attack". No, it's one attack. The number of connections merely indicates the size of the attack, and in this case possibly less because if it's implementing a brute force search over passwords, it could be very, very inefficient. In other words, it's marketing language designed to scare people who have no understanding of computer security.