Andrew Blake

Hackers stole credit card data from Republican website for 6 months: Report

A Republican Party website that sells bumper stickers and T-shirts advertising presidential candidate Donald Trump was compromised earlier this year by hackers who spent several months silently stealing credit card details and other personal information from purchasers, according to a Dutch security researcher.

October 18, 2016

State Dept. denies John Kerry tried to prevent WikiLeaks from publishing Clinton documents

WikiLeaks said Tuesday the U.S. State Department secretly attempted to prevent the website from releasing documents concerning Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton prior to its publication of emails stolen from the chairman of her campaign -- a claim the agency quickly disputed.

October 18, 2016

Donald Trump’s ninth accuser, Cathy Heller, alleges encounter at Mar-a-Lago

A ninth woman, Cathy Heller, has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations concerning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, The Guardian reported Saturday.

October 15, 2016

Podesta leak highlights relationship between Clinton campaign, State Dept. and journalists

When more than a dozen emails were revealed last year to have gone missing from Hillary Clinton's private sever, her advisors braced for the blowback by suggesting the State Department relay the news first to reporters they considered "friendly," leaked emails reveal.

October 15, 2016

Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs apologizes after tweeting Trump accuser’s address, phone number

Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs has apologized after retweeting the address and phone number of Jessica Leeds, one of several women to recently accuse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual assault.

October 15, 2016

John Podesta email contains transcripts of Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs: WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks on Saturday published purported transcripts of paid speeches Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs in 2013.

October 15, 2016

Bill Maher blasts undecided voter Ken Bone as ‘still too stupid’ to pick either Trump or Clinton

Undecided voter Ken Bone became an internet sensation within moments of posing a question to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during last week's debate, but Bill Maher isn't amused by the sweater-clad everyman's newfound fame.

October 15, 2016

Donald Trump ally Roger Stone willing to speak with FBI, rejects ties to Russia and WikiLeaks

Former Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone on Friday denied working with WikiLeaks and the Russian government to sabotage the presidential campaign of Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as concerns swell over the Republican strategist's potential ties with either.

October 15, 2016

Russia is hacking U.S. ‘with the goal of electing Donald Trump’: Dianne Feinstein

The Obama administration has already blamed Russia with interfering in the U.S. election process, but the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Kremlin isn't merely meddling: Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, accused Russia this week of waging cyberattacks to help put Donald Trump in the White House.

October 14, 2016

Yahoo’s mass email scanning spurs questions from Congress

Four dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives demanded answers from the Obama administration Friday over reports suggesting Yahoo scanned the emails of millions of its customers on behalf of the federal government.

October 14, 2016

WikiLeaks emails highlight Hillary Clinton campaign’s handling of encryption debate

Hillary Clinton's advisers wrestled for months over whether she should support the use of strong encryption or government-mandated "backdoors" as terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad put the question at the center of a national security debate in her lead up to securing the Democratic nomination for president, leaked emails reveal.

October 14, 2016

Obama: Cuban cigars and rum import restrictions lifted

The Obama administration on Friday announced it's lifting a limit on Cuban cigars and rum brought into the country by Americans travelers returning home.

October 14, 2016

Clinton Wikipedia pages vandalized with porn, pro-Trump message

The Wikipedia pages for Bill and Hillary Clinton were briefly defaced Wednesday afternoon with a porn-laced statement in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, prompting one of the world's most popular websites to implement safeguards intended to protect the articles from further obscene edits.

October 13, 2016

Russian-blamed cyberattacks provoke new push for nationwide vote-by-mail system

Congress should consider implementing a federal vote-by-mail system as ongoing cyberattacks raise concerns about the potential for U.S. elections to be swayed by hackers, a Democratic senator said.

October 13, 2016

Tribal ‘chief’ sentenced for defrauding immigrants with fake memberships

A Texas man who let over a hundred undocumented immigrants buy their way into a bogus Indian tribe was sentenced this week to nearly three years in federal prison.

October 13, 2016

Classified computer network at Nevada drone base suffered outage; investigation underway: Air Force

The Air Force is investigating a recent outage that sidelined a classified computer network at the heart of the Pentagon's weaponized drone program, military officials said Wednesday.

October 13, 2016

National anthem protest at youth football game met with racial slurs, police response

A youth football team was pelted with racial epithets during a game near Pittsburgh over the weekend after several of its athletes took a knee during the national anthem, their coach claims.

October 13, 2016

Age restrictions considered in Canada for recreational marijuana program

Health officials in Canada's capital city want the federal government to restrict marijuana sales to individuals 25 and older as the nation prepares to legalize weed within the next few years, according to newly released documents.

October 12, 2016

Putin: Cyberattacks aren’t in Russia’s interests, U.S. using hacks to manipulate public

Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the Obama administration is blaming Russia with hacking the Democratic Party in order to manipulate public opinion ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

October 12, 2016

Guccifer, hacker who exposed Hillary Clinton private email server, returns to native Romania

"Guccifer," the computer hacker who revealed Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, has been sent to his native Romania on Tuesday to finish serving time for a previous conviction before resuming a prison sentence in the United States.

October 12, 2016