Saturday, December 10, 2016

Somebody tried to hack my state's voter data

Georgia's Secretary of State reports an attempted hacking of the state's voter registration rolls.

It wasn't Russians who attempted the hack.

Via PC World:
Georgia's secretary of state says the state was hit with an attempted hack of its voter registration database from an IP address linked to the federal Department of Homeland Security.
Article goes on to say Georgia's reportedly been resisting offers of cyber security assistance from DHS, believing such offers to be an intrusion on authority bestowed to the states under the Constitution.  

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