Election Systems are Vulnerable to Hacks, Venmo Is Public By Default, and Midterm Candidates are Attacked in phishing attempts. All that coming up now on ThreatWire.

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Links:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-018/ https://www.infoworld.com/article/2618965/hacking/threatened-by-anonymous--symantec-tells-users-to-pull-pcanywhere-s-plug.html https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hundreds-thousands-us-voter-data-appeared-online-again-bob-diachenko/?published=t https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-voter-data-exposed-by-robocall-firm/ https://robocent.com/ 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5n8wk/public-by-default-venmo-privacy-settings https://22-8miles.com/public-by-default/ https://publicbydefault.fyi/ https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkvx/twitter-bot-venmo-buying-drugs-photo-names https://twitter.com/venmodrugs https://blog.usejournal.com/why-i-blasted-your-drug-deals-on-twitter-f8c517de1256 https://publicbydefault.fyi/#venmo 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/microsoft-detected-russian-attempt-to-hack-3-congressional-candidates-this-year/ https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/russia-election-hacking.html https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/13/announcing-the-defending-democracy-program/ 

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