{"id":178773,"date":"2018-08-23T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/23\/the-dnc-could-f-up-a-two-car-funeral\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:58:00","slug":"the-dnc-could-f-up-a-two-car-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/23\/the-dnc-could-f-up-a-two-car-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"The DNC Could F%$# Up a Two Car Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZxPXX0P.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZxPXX0P.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>Remember the attempted Russian hack of the DNC from about a week ago?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/dnc-says-suspected-hack-attempt-turned-out-to-be-a-security-test\/2018\/08\/23\/7fecef50-a6d1-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html\">never mind<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">What the Democratic National Committee this week thought was an attempted hack of its valuable voter file turned out to be a security test organized by a state party, unbeknown to the national organization.<\/p>\n<p>The committee on Tuesday alerted the FBI to a fake online portal it thought had been set up as an elaborate attempt to trick DNC staff into giving up their log-in credentials \u2014 through a hacking technique known as \u201cphishing\u201d \u2014 as a way to gain access to the party\u2019s VoteBuilder database.<\/p>\n<p>Late Wednesday night, DNC Chief Security Officer Bob Lord reversed course. \u201cWe, along with the partners who reported the [fake] site, now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test on VoteBuilder,\u201d he said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The mix-up resulted from a state Democratic organization seeking to test employees\u2019 ability to avoid falling prey to phishing attempts.<\/p>\n<p>The test was conducted at the behest of the Michigan Democratic Party, using \u201cwhite-hat\u201d security personnel with the group DigiDems, who provided their services to create the mock site, a Democratic official said. The state party did not notify the national committee or NGP, the firm that hosts the voter database, the official said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is actually a deeper problem here:&nbsp; The party apparatus in general, and the DNC have become completely dependent on overpriced (and under-performing) outside consultants, and as a result, they have no internal expertise to provide even a basic evaluation of potential problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the attempted Russian hack of the DNC from about a week ago? Well, never mind: What the Democratic National Committee this week thought was an attempted hack of its valuable voter file turned out to be a security test organized by a state party, unbeknown to the national organization. The committee on Tuesday alerted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,578,374],"class_list":["post-178773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-incompetence","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}