Abstract This article is a review to understand new cyber threats for society and new concept of cyber-attacks. Article focus is on the 2016 US presidential election and base of the information provided by various experts in field of cyber security.

1. 2016 US ELECTION CYBER
ATTACK
SEAN REZVANI
DR. PAUL WITMAN
IT513-DATA SECURITY
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY

2. AGENDA
• Introduction
• Five possibilities to hack the election
• Five main hacks for 2016
• What was DNC leaking?
• Who hacked who?
• How Russian hackers did it with our election?
• Conclusion: Tweeter and social medias are serving for Russians

3. INTRODUCTION
• Five possibilities to hack the election
• A flood of disclosures
• Interfering with voter registration rolls
• Manipulating the count reported to news organizations
• An internet disruption that makes it hard to get to the polls
• Tinkering with voting machines (Sanger, 2016)
• Five main hacks for 2016
• Yahoo
• Democratic National Committee, Mirai: Millions of IoT devices, LinkedIn,
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (Marvin, 2017)

4. WHAT WAS DNC LEAKING?
https://www.snopes.com/2016/07/25/what-we-know-so-far-
about-wikileaks-dncleaks/

5. WHO HACKED WHO?
http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/2016/11/nsa-chief-says-
russia-hacked-2016-election.html

6. HOW RUSSIAN HACKERS DID IT WITH OUR
ELECTION?
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/14/heres-the-public-
evidence-russia-hacked-the-dnc-its-not-enough/

7. CONCLUSION: TWEETER AND SOCIAL MEDIAS
ARE SERVING FOR RUSSIANS
http://www.philcooke.com/fake-news-on-social-
media/

8. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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Questions

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