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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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Stefanie Lambert was involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election and was arrested after appearing on behalf of another client.
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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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Voting equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems on Monday sued former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for $1.3 billion for spreading election-related conspiracy theories that the vendor says amount to defamation. It’s the latest in a series of high-value lawsuits that Dominion has leveled at Trump allies who have promoted false conspiracy theories about the voting machine vendor flipping votes for Joe Biden during the 2020 election. Dominion employees have received a barrage of death threats, and the company says it has “suffered unprecedented and irreparable harm,” because of conspiracy theories stoked by Giuliani, the lawyer Sidney Powell and other pro-Trump public figures. “Dominion brings this action to set the record straight…and to stand up for itself, its employees, and the electoral process,” reads the suit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District Columbia. It follows a $1.3 billion defamation suit that Dominion filed against […]
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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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With many in the public sphere warning about a potential compromise of the integrity of the Presidential Election, security researchers instead flag online resources and influence campaigns as the biggest problem areas. Continue reading Shoring Up the 2020 Election: Secure Vote Tallies Aren’t the Problem
A simulation took place today in Washington, D.C., that showed how a cyberattack could impact Election Day without ever targeting voting machines. The simulation, which took place in a fictitious town named Adversia located in a swing state, resulted … Continue reading Simulation Shows Elections’ Soft Security Underbelly
A year from the 2020 election and with a new round of election security funding stalled in Congress, the DEF CON Voting Village organizers have again taken to Capitol Hill to raise awareness about software vulnerabilities in voting equipment. This time, they brought the equipment with them to drive home their point. “If we’re going to meaningfully introduce funding or introduce new technologies for 2020, time is rapidly running out to be able to do that,” Matt Blaze, a professor at Georgetown University and co-organizer of the Voting Village, told CyberScoop. “We need to act pretty fast.” A handful of House Democrats and their staffers sauntered up to equipment on display, including a ballot-marking device and an electronic voting machine, to ask the researchers about the software bugs they found. “This is really helpful in understanding that these aren’t just abstract problems, that these are real things,” Blaze, an expert […]
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That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers. Continue reading Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’
That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers. Continue reading Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’