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.
“The other two states that were subjected to attempts to hack their SoE are West Virginia & Kentucky.”
Hmmm. I remember the media trying to tell us in the weeks before the election that GA was going to flip to Democrat as were a few others (supposedly). I don’t remember if WV or KY were included in that list.
I’m going with DHS is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian spies... and BOTH GROUPS wanted to take down Trump.
Nah, radical Muslim infiltration... ALL our enemies have a piece of the action.
Ping.
1. The first one happened on Feb. 2, the day after Georgia’s voter registration deadline.
2. The next one took place just days before the SEC primary.
3. Another occurred in May, the day before the general primary, and...
4. 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.
Other States involved need to check their calenders ...
The Federal Government is as war with itself.
And now with the states. We are in dangerous times.
#22 you have to understand the mentality of these Wyle E. Coyote type Super Geniuses.
They all are like Illary. They think everyone is a stupid as they are or worse. So no chance anyone would catch them.
You know the type. Like John Podesta that used p@ssw0rd as his email account login password.
““intent” - who can forget?!?”
The new FBI motto, “There is no crime unless you had intent!”
What was DHS hoping to accomplish with the hack? Obviously it was important to them or they wouldn’t have tried ten separate times. If they had accomplished it, what would they have done there?
Of course, his handed-picked henchman, Jeh Johnson had Obama’s blessing on this outrageous attempt to fix the election for Hillary.
The other two states that were subjected to attempts to hack their SoE are West Virginia & Kentucky.
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thanx for posting the two other states.
some journalist!?
Two words: Common Core
From what I've heard and read, no. They are just inept and stupid like the rest of the 0bama regime, including the would-be 'Dick Tater' Hussein himself.
It was traced back through the IP address, though I'm not sure what alerted them that a hack attempt had been made.
Typical; whatever the left is accusing someone else of, they are actually doing.
-—It was traced back through the IP address, though I’m not sure what alerted them that a hack attempt had been made.-—
any firewall monitor program worth its money logs the IP of any attempt past it and sends emails/notifications of the breach attempt.
You get what you pay for... whether you like it or not.
Julian Assange on Hannity now talking about this now. Good that he has reappeared.
That nothing happened to the person(s) who did this means they were doing what they were told to do.
LOL. Kind of like all the "prima facie evidence" of an international child trafficking ring that, at minimum, should be investigated, right? You mean THAT kind of "prima facie evidence," I presume?
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