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This year's presidential candidates will be facing the same kind of hack attacks that commercial websites are facing. Just how many of these candidates have CIOs on board? There are probably very few. But it is an idea that they might consider, as the threat to a candidate's online contributions gets bigger with attacks such as phishing, which can worm their way onto a site and divert online contributions to an opponent. "The threat that poses the most danger now is what has posed the most danger in the past," said Oliver Friedrichs, the director of Symantec's security response team. "Phishing is the most significant problem now, and it has the potential to disrupt campaigns or even competing campaigns." There are plenty of other headaches too. Hackers could pose as the real deal in order to harvest contributors' credit card and bank account numbers. In 2004, only two phishing attacks were identified. Both attacks targeted Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. But this time, experts say the 2008 campaign will see a much larger number of election-oriented phishing campaigns. Do you think every campaign needs a CIO to help them out?
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- see this InfoWorld article
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