Election Hacking

Maybe there was a little election-related security news this year after all. Here are two interesting news excerpts from ComputerWorld:

Report: Obama, McCain campaign computers were hacked by 'foreign entity' An unidentified 'foreign entity' stole a large number of policy-related files from computer systems used by the Obama and McCain campaigns, according to a Newsweek story.

Hackers leverage Obama win for massive malware campaign Hackers are using the results of the U.S. presidential election to launch a major malware campaign that aims to trick users into installing a Flash update that actually plants a Trojan horse on unprotected PCs.