The release of hacked emails helped derail Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid. But most 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates have not taken a basic step in securing their email systems, according to a new analysis by the security advocacy group Global Cyber Alliance conducted in mid-March.
Only four of the then-14 Democratic candidates' websites were using any form of a security protocol that helps ensure emails sent from campaign addresses are genuinely from the campaign when Global Cyber Alliance first ran the analysis last week. The protocol -- Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance -- verifies that emails are from the websites they claim to be from. Records of whether a website owner is using the protocol are publicly available.
"Industry-standard technologies exist, which, if enabled, would make it significantly harder for fraudsters and foreign governments to impersonate federal agencies," he wrote.Hackers often use a technique called"spoofing," a form of impersonation in which they make it look like emails have come from a trusted website domain in order to get victims to click on malicious links.
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