I only control this much of DHS.
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.
Bkmrk.
Did the federal agents who were doing the hacking deliberately leave the signs to show that the culprit was one of Obama’s agencies?
DHS attempts to cast suspicion on Russia are coincidental and without intent, of course.
Putin is running the DHS, pass it on.....
Yet Lyndsey Graham and the democrats are crying over the “alleged” Russian hacks; yet they are saying not a word over the confirmed hacks by our own freaking government.
Unreal!
“intent” - who can forget?!?
Jeh!, not much to see there.
1. What was said at that private dinner meeting in San Francisco, CA on February 17, 2011, a dinner had that the CEO's of Apple, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Oracle Systems, Twitter and Yahoo! in attendance?
2. Did you allow the Department of Homeland Security to hack into voter registration systems on multiple states for nefarious reasons?
The fact that nobody has been fired is prima facie evidence that what they were doing was authorized, at minimum, by the department head. Otherwise someone would be thrown under the bus.
What would be funny is, if the Russians blamed the DHS for hacking their next election.
got a link to the actual article?
I love that they’re bringing this to Trump’s attention to look into this. This administration needs to be held accountable.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/more-states-confirm-cyber-attacks-sourced-to-dhs/476227320
Actual evidence regarding DHS hack attempts: DHS IP address is source of the attacks.
So... The Federal Government is ATTACKING States?
Nice...
So how many Muslims “work” in the DHS?
I only control this much of DHS.
Muslims?
I’m pretty sure it’s russians inside of DHS doing the hacking, not Muslims, AND I think that Obama, Hillary and anyone else who matters would agree with me about that ...
The other two states that were subjected to attempts to hack their SoE are West Virginia & Kentucky.
That info should have been found in the first paragraph.
You have to assume at this point in time that Obama’s DHS attempted to hack every single state. Those that have not found evidence yet, may have been completely compromised. Obama and his employees have a history of using government agencies (IRS) to manipulate the political election processes. And obviously their attacks against Russian hackers are meant to miss direct from their own crimes.
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