Security News

Georgia County Criticized Over $400K Ransomware Payment
2019-03-11 20:38

Jackson County, Georgia is just a little over 60 miles from the City of Atlanta. In March 2018, Atlanta was struck by a major ransomware attack. In March 2019, Jackson County suffered its own...

Georgia Official Seeks to Replace Criticized Voting Machines
2019-01-24 17:05

Georgia's new elections chief asked lawmakers Wednesday for $150 million to replace the state's outdated electronic voting machines. In doing so, he all but closed the door on a hand-marked paper...

Georgia Patches Voter Website, But Hacking Accusation Stands
2018-11-06 11:18

Disclosure Flow Suggests Georgia's Secretary of State's Office May Have ErredGeorgia quietly fixed two flaws in its voter registration website that could have exposed personal information. How the...

Georgia Election Further Complicated By Hacking Accusation
2018-11-05 11:48

Secretary of State - and Republican Candidate - Probes State's Democratic PartyGeorgia's Republican gubernatorial candidate has accused the state's Democratic Party of attempting to hack the...

Judge: Georgia's voting machines are awful – but go ahead and use them
2018-09-18 23:33

US court says no time to get paper ballots in place for November – eek! A US district court judge has okayed the use of paperless electronic voting machines in Georgia, despite being "gravely...

Georgia's Use of Electronic Voting Machines Allowed for Midterms
2018-09-18 14:13

Judge Amy Totenberg ruled Monday that the state of Georgia's existing plans for the midterm elections to be conducted via some 27,000 Diebold AccuVote DRE touchscreen voting machines must stand....

To prevent hacking, Georgia must end all-electronic voting, activists say
2018-09-12 08:30

In Curling v. Kemp, both sides are set to duke it out in court on Wednesday.

Georgia Extradites Russian Data Theft Suspect to US
2018-09-07 20:01

A 35-year-old Russian was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday to answer criminal charges over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones, officials...

Hacking Elections: Georgia's Midterm Electronic Voting in the Dock
2018-08-21 12:55

The security of electronic voting and the direct-recording election (DRE) voting machines used has been questioned for years. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections in November, coupled with the...

Georgia Governor Vetoes Controversial Hack-Back Bill
2018-05-09 16:08

The bill would have allowed companies in the state to perform offensive cyberactions in the face of an attack.