Posted on 03/06/2021 11:03:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
When Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) met online to elect a new party leadership in January, hackers carried out a series of massive attacks aimed at throwing the summit into chaos. The attacks picked up speed every time delegates were about to vote.
According to CDU spokespeople, the assailants, operating mostly from abroad, bombarded the party’s website with internet traffic to overwhelm its server. At some point, they succeeded. The site collapsed and the livestream of the event cut out.
In the end, the CDU managed to push the intruders out […]
Yet the thwarted attack illustrates the threat of online meddling that looms over Germany’s upcoming election campaign.
As Europe’s largest economy heads into a string of regional votes that will culminate in a federal election in September, security experts and lawmakers have warned in various interviews that digital risks are on the rise.
“The threat level remains persistently high,” said a spokeswoman for the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany’s cybersecurity authority. […]
US technology giant Microsoft, which advises German political parties on how to protect their election campaigns against cyberattacks, warns that malicious actors have diversified their strategies: They increasingly use more than one cyberweapon in their attacks, making it harder to counter them. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Voting machines should obviously be OUTLAWED.
Paper ballots only and hand counted only if voter shows ID.
No mail in ballots period unless you are military.
So WHO is doing this?
And why can’t they be found and arrested ?!?
WHY NOT????
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