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State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed.
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Authorities have released footage of the bombing and torn down the remaining guidestones ‘for safety reasons.’ Continue reading Police Release Footage of the Georgia Guidestones Getting Bombed
For more than four decades, the stones have stood, embedded with messages meant to guide humanity in a time of darkness. Now some of it is rubble. Continue reading Georgia’s Conspiracy-Magnet Guidestones Monument Has Been Bombed
The company insists its equipment is safe, and nobody has proof of the vulnerabilities having been used, CISA says.
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The ransomware attack impacted the voting precinct map and voter signature database among other services.
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Legal battles with election security implications raged across the country over the holiday weekend, even with early voting well underway at historic levels in many states. In no state did those two things coincide more than in Georgia. Peach State voters amassed in lines marked by reports of 10-hour waits on Tuesday, following two key court rulings. Northern District of Georgia Judge Amy Totenberg on Sunday denied a bid to scuttle touch screen voting machines over cybersecurity vulnerabilities. On Monday, she also denied a request to require a specific number of emergency ballots to be on hand at Georgia polling sites. The ruling Sunday represented a setback for election integrity advocates who contend that Georgia’s machines have not been secure enough, and still aren’t. Totenberg ruled last year that Georgia must phase out its existing paperless voting machines, citing doubts about cybersecurity safeguards for direct-recording election equipment tabulations that couldn’t be audited without a paper record. […]
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A federal judge on Monday ordered polling places across Georgia to keep updated, backup paper records of eligible voters to avoid long lines and disenfranchisement on Election Day. The ruling is intended to prevent a repeat of the June primary election in Georgia, in which voting integrity groups say the malfunctioning of electronic pollbooks caused long waits at the polls. It comes as election officials across the country prepare for an unprecedented election marked by changes in procedure because of the coronavirus. The order from U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg instructs Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to “provide at least a modicum of the voting backup plan tools essential to protect” voters’ rights to cast a ballot. Civil society groups had sought the injunction after the difficulties in the primary. “It is not too late for [Raffensperger and other election officials] to take these reasonable concrete measures to mitigate […]
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A database containing the private information of Georgian citizens is up for grabs on a dark web forum. Researchers from Under the Breach stumbled on the data leak over the weekend, and reported that it contained 4,934,863 entries. Full names, physical… Continue reading Data Leak: Personal identifiable information of 4.9 million Georgians found online
Where did it all come from? 4.9m records were posted on a hacking forum – and the country only has an estimated population of 3.7m. Continue reading Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum
Almost a year after getting infected with ransomware, the City of Cartersville in the U.S. State of Georgia this week admitted to paying ransomware operators $380,000 to unlock its systems. Cartersville reportedly got infected in early May last year wh… Continue reading City of Cartersville Admits Paying Ryuk Ransomware Operators $380,000