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Posted on 12/15/2016 10:46:43 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty
ATLANTA - Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant has learned two more states’ election agencies have confirmed cyberattacks linked to the same U.S. Department of Homeland Security IP address as last month’s massive attack in Georgia.
In the past week, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office has confirmed 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were traced back to DHS addresses.
In an exclusive interview, Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency’s network over the last 10 months. He said they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses.
"We're being told something that they think they have it figured out, yet nobody's really showed us how this happened,” Kemp said. "We need to know."
Kemp told Diamant that his office's cybersecurity vendor discovered the additional so-called vulnerability scans to his network's firewall after a massive mid-November cyberattack triggered an internal investigation.
The Secretary of State's Office manages Georgia’s elections, and most concerning for Kemp about the newly discovered scans is the timing.
The first one happened on Feb. 2, the day after Georgia’s voter registration deadline. The next one took place just days before the SEC primary. Another occurred in May, the day before the general primary, and then two more took place in November, the day before and the day of the presidential election.
"It makes you wonder if somebody was trying to prove a point,” Kemp said.
Last week, the DHS confirmed the large Nov. 15 attack traced back to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection internet gateway. But Kemp says the DHS’ story about its source keeps changing.
"First, it was an employee in Corpus Christi, and now, it's a contractor in Georgia,” Kemp said.
Unsatisfied with the response he got from DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson this week, Kemp fired off a letter Wednesday to loop in President-elect Donald Trump.
"We just need to ask the new administration to take a look at this and make sure that we get the truth the people of Georgia are deserving to know that and really demanding it,” Kemp said.
Feds...your friend (hahahahahahahahah). You get to pay for your own tyranny...or else.
DHS is now politicized?
Who knew?
Don't leave Town
Investigation to begin post 1/20/7.
The states need to protect, encrypt, and harden their data systems from the US Federal Government.
Sad that this statement has to be said.
Sounds like “friendly” fire
Look who runs it , Total Failure at the Job Jeh Johnson
Probably tried to make it look like the Russians were doing it......
Once you drill down to the IP address and isolate the time of the occurrence, it only takes an hour to figure out who was logged onto that CPU. Oddly, nothing has occurred. This is the kind of behavior that is totally unacceptable and makes everyone wonder about what kind of people are working in DC.
DHS = sloppy security. The Russians and/or the Chinese probably have root on all their servers. It would be easy for them to make trouble.
That’s just crazy. ANYONE knows that the rooskies were routing their hacks through the DHS servers.
“The Secretary of State’s Office manages Georgia’s elections, and most concerning for Kemp about the newly discovered scans is the timing.
The first one happened on Feb. 2, the day after Georgia’s voter registration deadline. The next one took place just days before the SEC primary. Another occurred in May, the day before the general primary, and then two more took place in November, the day before and the day of the presidential election.”
What we have here is a Democrat hack on the Republican State officials to influence the outcome of that election in Georgia. They are directly caught red handed while the have no proof — ZERO- of Russian involvement. In fact , NBC has lost even journalistic pretext in positing as an absolute fact that Putin personally delivered the Podesta emails to Julianne Assange. Not withstanding Assange saying they were internal DNC LEAKS!! One of the possible DNC eakers was MURDERED!!!
If true, the Russians, Putin, CIA/NSA/FBI nor evil Trump tried to attack those sites.
The enemy, as usual would be our home grown liberals in a government law enforcement job.
Well well well.
DHS attempts to cast suspicion on Russia are coincidental of course.
The Ministry of Love tortures political prisoners.
The Ministry of Peace wages war.
The Ministry of Plenty controls and rations the food supply to keep people near starvation.
The Ministry of Truth (where Winston Smith worked) spreads lies (propaganda), censors all print media, revises history, and truncates the language with each edition of the Newspeak dictionary.
The Ministry of Homeland Security destabilizes the security of the nation and morale of its people.
LOL! Thanks
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