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Not Even William Barr Buys Trump’s Election Nonsense
The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time...
Undermining Democracy
Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that Mr. Trump won in a landslide, the entire election in swing states should be overturned and the legislatures should make su...
Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not
Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning...
Joe Biden Campaign Subdomain Down After Hacktivist Defacement
A subdomain used by President-elect Joe Biden’s official campaign website was defaced last week by a self-proclaimed Turkish hacktivist and still remains out of commission. The subdomain, vote.joebiden.com, was part of the official campaign website JoeBiden.com used by the Biden campaign leading ...
More on the Security of the 2020 US Election
Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying that while the election seems to have been both secure and accurate voter suppression notwithstanding, we still need to work to secure our...
Election Cyber Threats in the Asia-Pacific Region
In democratic societies, elections are the mechanism for choosing heads of state and policymakers. There are strong incentives for adversary nations to understand the intentions and preferences of the people and parties that will shape a country's future path and to reduce uncertainty about likel...
Chris Krebs, director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, fired by President
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, just days after CISA called the recent presidential election the “most secure in American history.” In a tweet posted the same day, the President justified his...
Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs no relation. The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims was stolen by widespread voting fraud. Chris Krebs. Image: CISA. Krebs, 43, is a former Microsof...
Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned
Government officials and cybersecurity experts alike condemned President Trump’s firing of Christopher Krebs by tweet Tuesday, as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA became the latest victim of the president’s housecleaning efforts after his failed bid at a...
Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump
The president dismissed the widely respected cybersecurity agency director Tuesday night for pushing back against election disinformation...
On Blockchain Voting
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked. For starters: It doesnt solve any problems civil elections actually have. Its basically incompatible with "software independence",...
Report: CISA Chief Expects White House to Fire Him
Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs said he expects to be fired by the Trump administration after he delivered a secure presidential election that didn’t go in the current administration’s favor. Krebs, the first and current director of the Department of Homeland Security’s DHS’s...
New Zealand Election Fraud
It seems that this election season has not gone without fraud. In New Zealand, a vote for "Bird of the Year" has been marred by fraudulent votes: More than 1,500 fraudulent votes were cast in the early hours of Monday in the countrys annual bird election, briefly pushing the Little-Spotted Kiwi t...
The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud
Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument...
2020 Was a Secure Election
Over at Lawfare: "2020 Is An Election Security Success Story So Far." What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals and analysts who monitor election administration were alarmed at how badly unprepared the country was for voting during a...
Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump has not yet conceded the presidential race, and may not any time soon. But there's no evidence whatsoever of a “stolen” election...
Malspam Campaign Milks Election Uncertainty
Threat actors have taken advantage of the ongoing uncertainty around the 2020 U.S. election to unleash a new malspam campaign aimed at spreading the Qbot trojan. Criminals behind Qbot resurfaced the day after the election with a wave of spam emails that attempt to lure victims with messages...
Streaming Traffic Peaks on Election Night
Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than traffic on a typical day and more than double the 7.5 Tbps peak we observed...
QBot Trojan delivered via malspam campaign exploiting US election uncertainties
This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura and Hossein Jazi. The 2020 US elections have been the subject of intense scrutiny and emotions, while happening in the middle of a global pandemic. As election night ended and uncertainty regarding the results began to creep in, threat actors decided t...