Politico reports that it was sent communications from inside the Trump campaign, including Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) 271-page vetting file, allegedly by an Iranian hacker.

The outlet said that it has been receiving anonymous emails containing internal communications from the Trump campaign. The campaign acknowledged the authenticity of the communications on Saturday, accusing “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” for leaking them.

    • @gibmiser
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      2121 month ago

      Vance clicked on a link for hot CILFs in his area.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        571 month ago

        Social engineering is the greatest skill a hacker can have

        • @_bcron
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          91 month ago

          But still you think with how much control they want over other people, you’d think that no one would even have a chance at social engineering. Some gestapo-style blacklist intranet work email setup with a bunch of interns poring over every single little thing that gets stuck in the filter

          • Vox
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            241 month ago

            If there is one universal truth for US Politics, and a majority of corporations as well, is that they all woefully underpay for IT

              • @Fedizen
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                91 month ago

                trump is also well known to not pay bills

              • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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                81 month ago

                Ugh, I had to deal with the “What do we pay you for” thing recently. I had to go back through an entire year of chat messages and emails and meeting notes to show them exactly all the shit they’re paying for, and after that they said “Oh, yeah, that’s actually useful, we’ll keep paying you.”

                The Galactic Intelligence notion of “If you do things right people won’t think you’ve done anything at all” is not the goal for IT. You need to make it blatantly obvious to all of the people two or three rungs above you that what you do is vital and necessary.

                • @suction
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                  31 month ago

                  I’ve been in the position. The better way is to run from the company because that’s a red flag. They hired morons to manage it.

        • @suction
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          Nope. It’s creating real looking email templates.

    • @dhork
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      211 month ago

      I bet it was Eric. He seems dumb enough to fall for that.

      • @kayos
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        Probably a fake OnlyFans link. “Oh I better pay my Onlyfans “invoice.doc” “

    • @Raiderkev
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      131 month ago

      Is it really that farfetched to think that the people working for the Trump campaign are dumb enough to fall for a phishing email?

    • @meeeeetch
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      51 month ago

      Time to add another item to the vulnerabilities list