![]() ![]() (As you probably know, phishing is when a hacker tries to dupe a user into giving up personal information or credentials that can be used to compromise computers and networks.) And it worked. Computer engineering turned to good old-fashioned social engineering, in the form of phishing. It’s far easier to trick users into giving up their credentials or unknowingly installing malware. Hackers learned long ago that the most efficient way to break into a computer wasn’t to try to outsmart firewalls and other network security measures. Why screw around with inefficient, resource-intensive brute force hacks on voting machines to flip ballots when you can simply convince voters to do it for you? In other words, by targeting voters’ decision-making processes instead of the machines that record their decisions, Russia could influence the election without breaking into a single electoral computer. ![]() ![]() So how exactly did Russia hack the election? Well, it didn’t. ![]()
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