Knox County Tennessee Election Site Hit With DDOS Attack During Primary

guest · May 5, 2018

Knox County Tennessee Election Site Hit With DDOS Attack During Primary
May 5, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ion-site-hit-with-ddos-attack-during-primary/

On Tuesday the web site used to display the voting results for the Knox County, Tennessee mayoral primary was taken offline by a distributed denial-of-service attack. This prevented voters from being able to access the site and view the results of the primary. While the site was taken down, Knox County Mayor Tim Burchet stated that voting tallies were not affected by the attack.

Burchett further stated that they hired IT security Sword & Shield Enterprise Security to conduct an analysis of the attack and determine what happened. Unfortunately DDOS attacks can be hard to attribute to a particular group due to the wide range of compromised IP addresses that are used in attacks like this.
Voting machines were not connected to the Internet
With the reports of meddling in the U.S. presidential election, people are concerned with the continuing attacks on U.S. voting infrastructure. Candice Hoke, a co-founder of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at Ohio’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, told the Huffington Post that there should be some concern that the actual votes were tampered with.
Burchett responded on Twitter stating that the voting machines are not connected to the Internet and thus were not affected by the attack.
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hawki · May 12, 2018

"Ukraine Computer Involved In Tennessee Elections Attack...

Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack, which likely caused the site to crash just as it was reporting vote totals in this month’s primary..."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ukraine-computer-involved-tennessee-elections-attack

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