Politicians must learn from French hacking

• Autores: Matt Reynolds
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3126, 2017, pág. 23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Reynolds looks at how Emmanuel Macron's team responded to sophisticated phishing attacks. A giant haul of emails stolen from his presidential campaign and leaked online less than 48 hours before France went to the polls failed to tip the vote in favor of Marine Le Pen. His team had pre-empted the leak by spamming hackers with decoy emails. When 9 gigabytes of emails were finally stolen, the ploy prevented the president-elect's campaign being derailed by fake news in the crucial period before the election.