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 removal of Krebs: “The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election … [Read more...]
David Ruiz November 18, 2020
Chris Krebs, director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, fired by President
Filed Under: 2020 presidential election, Attorney General, Chris Krebs, CISA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, election disinformation, election hacking, election tampering, Malwarebytes news, President Donald Trump, President Trump, Rumor Control, William Barr
Christopher Boyd October 18, 2018
Information operations on Twitter: new data released on election tampering
Back in April, we talked about the wealth of options available to Russian hackers and others launching social engineering campaigns, whether on social networks or through clever attacks launched via Advanced Persistent Threats. Some of that was information published by Twitter at the time in relation to election tampering/interference by so-called “Russian Troll farms”—specifically, the IRA … [Read more...]
Filed Under: 2016 US elections, cybercrime, datasets, election tampering, fake stories, iran, russia, Russian Facebook ads, Social engineering, twitter
