Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Hope everyone has come back healthy from Def Con and Black Hat. I expect to see you next year at “Hacker Summer Camp.”
Below: Journalists and lawyers accuse the CIA of spying on them as they visited Julian Assange, and Signal says it was affected in a breach of Twilio.
Donald Trump-allied attorneys directed a team of computer experts to copy sensitive data from Georgia election systems, part of a broader trend of assorted GOP efforts to copy such data, The Post reported Monday.
Election authorities told me these copies pose a security risk and could be used to build false narratives about the integrity of the vote.
“Attorney Sidney Powell sent the team to Michigan to copy a rural county’s election data and later helped arrange for them to do the same in the Detroit area, according to the records. A Trump campaign attorney engaged the team to travel to Nevada. And the day after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol the team was in southern Georgia, copying data from a Dominion voting system in rural Coffee County.”
Copies or images of vote tabulators, hard drives, software and voting data have also been at the center of controversies in Mesa County, Colo.; Maricopa County, Ariz.; and Antrim County, Mich.
Outsiders accessing such equipment is just the start of what’s problematic about the copying trend, election specialists say. It’s one of the reasons Maricopa County concluded it needed to stop using the machines that the Cyber Ninjas examined...
NEW DELHI: German model LizLaz has claimed that some journalists offered her money to speak negatively about Virat Kohli after a recent social media controversy involving the Indian cricket star.T...