When the Heritage Foundation’s nearly 1,000-page Project 2025 report was published earlier this year, cybersecurity experts focused on its radical suggestion to drastically diminish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other reimagining of cybersecurity policy. But despite the buzz the report has caused in Washington cybersecurity circles, interviews with five former senior Trump administration officials demonstrate a much more moderate vision for cyber if he wins a s
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Iranian state-backed actors have sought to access senior US political figures’ email accounts and launched “covert news sites” aimed at US readers as part of an increase in disinformation and cyber-attacks ahead of the country’s elections, Microsoft has said. A group run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in June sent a spear-phishing email, or personalized hacking attempt, to a “high-ranking official of a presidential campaign” from the compromised email account of a former senior adviser, the Mic
The top US intelligence agency has revamped its election security team ahead of the 2024 presidential election, a contest multiple national security leaders have warned could be targeted by foreign adversaries using fast-moving attacks. Jessica Brandt, who previously held a variety of prominent research roles at Washington think tanks, was appointed the first full-fledged director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center in late 2023.
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What will happen if the November 2020 election results are tampered, blocked or disappear? Both parties will cry foul and blame the other party. Will the voters every really know the final results and how long could it possibly take for both national parties to agree upon an outcome? The blame may need to be placed with the hackers and ransomware criminals who have been attacking governments, businesses, and organizations with no let-up in sight. State and local governments and their agencie
After the Russians were banned from the Olympics for another four years in a unanimous decision from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the immediate reaction from Russia was fury and denial. So now everyone is waiting to see how Russia will respond.
In 2016, Red Sky Alliance analysts reported on the Russian retaliation when Russia was banned from the Olympics for steroid use. 2016 saw unprecedented Russian physical, cyber and physiological interference into the US presidential election, but
