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Gevers shared screenshots of the user-side of the account with the Dutch press to prove he had gained access and may have used the account access to tweet a link to a satirical website as the President. Skeptical it would have been that easy to get into such an influential and safeguarded Twitter account with 88 million followers, everyone refused to accept it had happened.
Dutch prosecutors Wednesday said a man had cracked US President Donald Trump's Twitter account in October despite denials from Washington and the company, but added that the so-called "Ethical hacker" would not face charges. Both the White House and Twitter have strenuously denied reports that the account had been hacked.
"While the presence or absence of one individual or entity only has a limited effect on the overall risk posture of our nation, to be sure, without the kind of transformative leadership that Chris Krebs showed as the leader of a new agency in CISA and his effort to promote collective defense capabilities across the public and private sectors, we could go back to the historical siloed approach of defense limiting the progress we've made in recent years. Our adversaries are going to be punching from all angles and coming at us in an organized manner, so we also need to defend in the same way." "While unlikely that the firing of the CISA Director will inspire cyber attacks from abroad on critical infrastructure in the US because systems appear more vulnerable today than yesterday, industry partners, observers, and US citizens certainly will be skeptical of any statements made by CISA about the election or anything else between now and January 2021.".
President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs. Krebs, 43, is a former Microsoft executive appointed by Trump to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the nation's top election security official, a widely respected member of his administration who had dared to refute the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouch for the integrity of the vote. Since his loss, Trump has been ridding his administration of officials seen as insufficiently loyal and has been denouncing the conduct of an election that led to an embarrassing defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump tonight fired the boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the very organisation his administration formed with the aim of shoring up America's computer networks from hackers. The Trump 2020 campaign and the Tweeter-in-Chief both challenge that assessment of election security, and allege widespread voter fraud, but have yet to offer any hard evidence of wrongdoing.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election. Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was "Highly inaccurate."
President Trump has fired Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, after Krebs disputed claims that the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election was insecure and fraudulent. Trump appointed Krebs as the first director of CISA after it was established on November 16, 2018, as part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018.
President Donald Trump's administration said Wednesday it was still working to resolve its security concerns over Chinese-owned app TikTok after the firm sought to delay a deadline to sell its US operations. On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department said in a statement it "Remains focused on reaching a resolution of the national security risks arising from ByteDance's acquisition of Musical.ly."
TikTok asked a Washington court Tuesday to stop an order from US President Donald Trump's administration from taking effect this week as the White House seeks to ban the Chinese-owned app in the United States. In its court petition, TikTok asked for more time, saying it has not received enough feedback on its proposed solution.