Hi everyone, Kevin here. If things weren’t interesting enough already with this coming US presidential election, CNN reported this week that the Ohio Secretary of State’s office Web site was hacked (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/ohio.website.hacked/). Government site hacking is pretty common, but what was particularly interesting about this was in the article Ohio’s Secretary of State reported that “fortunately no sensitive information was breached in the incident.” I hope that this really is the case, but I am wondering how they know this so soon, especially less than a day after the original hack. Kudos to the office for reporting the issue promptly, but in my experience a forensics investigation that would enable someone to make such a definitive statement (by the way, a PR security no-no) would require much more effort and time.
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