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via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news that no one in the State of Georgia wants to hear: At least one election server exhibits evidence of compromise – due to the machine’s vulnerability to the Shellshock exploit – which, of cour… Continue reading State of Georgia: Election Server May Have Been Compromised During 2016, 2018 Elections
As the 2020 election campaigning kicks into high gear, a senior Department of Justice official says he worries that Americans are still vulnerable to foreign hack-and-leak operations that are intended to disrupt democratic processes. “One of the things that I am concerned about is the hacking-and-dumping activity that occurred in 2016,” John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said Friday. He was referring to Russian military officers’ hacking of email servers used by Democratic political organizations, and the selective leaking of those emails to the public. Despite a lot of progress on election security since Russian interference in 2016, the personal email accounts used by political campaigns are still a weak link, Demers said at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. “It really is dependent on their cyber hygiene practices…and not clicking on that wrong email,” Demers said. “What the Russians did in 2016 in terms of the […]
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In the wake of the U.S.-Iran standoff and just weeks before the first Democratic primary, the intelligence community’s lead official for election security will brief state officials on the top cyberthreats to the U.S. electoral process. Shelby Pierson, the intelligence community’s election threats executive, said that the briefing this Thursday will cover full gamut of digital threats to U.S. elections, including those emanating from Iran. Asked if Iran is more likely to interfere in the 2020 election after the U.S. military killed Tehran’s top general earlier this month, Pierson told reporters Tuesday that “it certainly is something that we’re prepared for.” “Our adversaries look to the political climate … it wouldn’t surprise me at all that this is part of the calculus,” she added. Pierson, who assumed her post last July, used a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about digital threats facing the […]
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Mac Warner needed to get something off his chest. The secretary of state of West Virginia had patiently listened to federal officials explain their updated process for notifying state officials and the public of foreign attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. As the Nov. 8 phone call with election officials across the country came to a close, Warner said he wouldn’t mince words the way one of his “silver-tongued” colleagues had done while offering feedback on the updated process. “The analogy that came to me is the realigning of the deck chairs on the Titanic,” Warner said, according to a call transcript obtained by CyberScoop. “I think this is a straightening up of the chairs: It feels good and so forth, but you’re not getting to the substance.” It was one of multiple blunt exchanges about the new threat-notification framework, which is meant to give U.S. officials a consistent process for alerting state personnel, the private sector, Congress, and […]
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Most counties are not protected from impersonation-based spearphishing attacks. Continue reading Email Voted a Weak Link for Election Security, with DMARC Lagging