House passes extension of expiring surveillance authorities

Just days ago, lawmakers voted against even allowing a debate on an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Georgia election officials withheld evidence in voting machine breach, group alleges

A filing accuses county election officials of withholding records related to unauthorized copying of voting software by Trump allies in 2021.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it’s like to be an employee of Conti’s sprawling organization. Today’s Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims. Continue reading Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

Trump Hates Cloud, Because China Cyber?

Hidden among the former president’s final executive orders was a juicy time-bomb under American cloud-computing companies.
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CISA Director Chris Krebs Fired, Common Sense and Section 230

In episode 148 for November 23rd 2020: This week Kevin Johnson joins me to discuss the Twitter firing of Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and our thoughts about a common sense approach to social media and S… Continue reading CISA Director Chris Krebs Fired, Common Sense and Section 230

Scammers stole $2.3 million from Republican Party in Wisconsin

By Deeba Ahmed
WisGOP claims that scammers stole the money from the account they were using for the reelection campaign of President Donald Trump.
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Trump campaign website defaced with “site seizure” notice

By Waqas
According to researchers, one probability is that the attackers used compromised credentials to sign into the Expression Engine used by the Trump campaign website.
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