Hacking Journalists

If you ever thought that journalism wasn't important then why do you think government states are hacking and attacking journalists. Accurate correct news reporting is essential- "State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns (politico.com) 99 Posted by msmash on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:40PM from the security-woes dept. State-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal email passwords of a number of prominent journalists, Google has warned. The hackers are suspected to be Russians, reports POLITICO. Some of the journalists who have received such warnings from Google as recent as two-to-three weeks ago include Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, Julia Ioffe, who recently started at The Atlantic, Ezra Klein of Vox, and CNN's Brian Stelter. From the report: "The fact that all this started right after the election suggests to me that journalists are the next wave to be targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the way that Democrats were during it," said one journalist who got the warning. "I worry that the outcome is going to be the same: Someone, somewhere, is going to get hacked, and then the contents of their Gmail will be weaponized against them -- and by extension all media."