{"id":731,"date":"2017-06-15T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/06\/15\/39-states-elections-hacked-how-land-of-lincoln-is-reacting-to-protect-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:41:00","slug":"39-states-elections-hacked-how-land-of-lincoln-is-reacting-to-protect-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/39-states-elections-hacked-how-land-of-lincoln-is-reacting-to-protect-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"39 States. Elections Hacked. How Land of Lincoln is Reacting to Protect Midterm Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Illinois<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illinois&#8217;\u00a0Solutions to prevent election hacking in the 2018 mid term elections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending election officials a letter with these instructions:\n<ul>\n<li>scrub voting systems of potential malware<\/li>\n<li>fill any kind of security gaps<\/li>\n<li>continue to be vigilant\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/tipsheets\/morning-cybersecurity\">Politico |\u00a0<strong>LAND OF LINCOLN PREPS FOR 2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2017\/06\/08\/illinois-among-8-states-investigating-russian-hacking-of-its-elections\/\"><strong>WGN |\u00a0<\/strong>Illinois among 8 states investigating Russian hacking of its\u00a0elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/daily-southtown\/community\/chi-ugc-article-sen-michael-e-hastings-works-to-protect-ill-2017-06-14-story.html\">Chicago Tribune |\u00a0From the community:\u00a0Sen. Michael E. Hastings works to protect Illinois election data from foreign cyber threats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Illinois<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illinois&#8217;\u00a0Solutions to prevent election hacking in the 2018 mid term elections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending election officials a letter with these instructions:\n<ul>\n<li>scrub voting systems of potential malware<\/li>\n<li>fill any kind of security gaps<\/li>\n<li>continue to be vigilant\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/tipsheets\/morning-cybersecurity\">Politico |\u00a0<strong>LAND OF LINCOLN PREPS FOR 2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2017\/06\/08\/illinois-among-8-states-investigating-russian-hacking-of-its-elections\/\"><strong>WGN |\u00a0<\/strong>Illinois among 8 states investigating Russian hacking of its\u00a0elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/daily-southtown\/community\/chi-ugc-article-sen-michael-e-hastings-works-to-protect-ill-2017-06-14-story.html\">Chicago Tribune |\u00a0From the community:\u00a0Sen. Michael E. Hastings works to protect Illinois election data from\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-election-data-breach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}