{"id":53651,"date":"2014-10-05T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53651"},"modified":"2014-10-05T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:45:50","slug":"hackers-target-brazil-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=53651","title":{"rendered":"Hackers target Brazil election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">On the eve of Brazil&#8217;s presidential election, the Superior Electoral Court has dismissed reports that the country&#8217;s electronic voting system is vulnerable to hacking.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s president, Jose Dias Toffoli, has acknowledged that hackers make frequent attempts to break into the electronic ballots.<\/p>\n<p>But the system was &#8220;safe and fraud-proof&#8221;, Mr Toffoli said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 142 million Brazilians will go to the polls on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for a second four-year term, is seen as the front-runner.<\/p>\n<p>Her main rivals are former environment minister Marina Silva and the centre-right candidate, Minas Gerais state governor Aecio Neves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Clone systems&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Brazilians will also be choosing new senators, members of the Chamber of Deputies, governors and state-level legislators.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aecio Neves, Dilma Rousseff and Marina Silva\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/78015000\/jpg\/_78015554_024183080-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"232\" \/>Ms Rousseff (centre) is expected to face either Mr Neves or Ms Silva in a runoff vote<\/div>\n<p>O Globo newspaper has reported that the voting machines were the target of 200,000 cyber attacks per second two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Electoral Court computer system is attacked regularly, but we have a huge defence system in place, which is activated when our clone systems are targeted,&#8221; Mr Toffoli explained.<\/p>\n<p>The system was first used in Brazil in 1996 and the technology has since been exported to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>It usually delivers the election results within one or two hours of polls closing.<\/p>\n<p>If none of the candidates in the elections for president or state governor get more than 50% of valid votes, there will be a run-off on 26 October.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is mandatory for those aged between 18 and 70.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of Brazil&#8217;s presidential election, the Superior Electoral Court has dismissed reports that the country&#8217;s electronic voting system is vulnerable to hacking. The court&#8217;s president, Jose Dias Toffoli, has acknowledged that hackers make frequent attempts to break into the electronic ballots. But the system was &#8220;safe and fraud-proof&#8221;, Mr Toffoli said. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-53651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}