Security News
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.
Plenty of voter data is public in Arizona - but Social Security numbers and DoBs are supposed to be kept confidential. The security issue comes to light amid attacks targeting voters and voter data.
The DontTouchTheGreenButton.com website just launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently filed Arizona "Rejected votes" lawsuit was discovered to be leaking voter data. The data included the voter name, address, and a unique identifier.
A US federal judge on Friday issued an injunction temporarily blocking an executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at banning TikTok, throwing up a legal roadblock ahead of a November 12 deadline. TikTok influencers suing the president over the ban convinced US District Court Wendy Beetlestone to issue the injunction against it.
Security researchers believe that compromised credentials were used by hackers to access the content management system behind Donald Trump's campaign website. According to WordPress security solutions provider Defiant, which develops the Wordfence product, the hackers most likely used compromised credentials for access, supposedly targeting the underlying Expression Engine content management system, which is an alternative to WordPress.
UPDATE. Hackers took over President Trump's 2020 election campaign website late Tuesday, replacing parts of the site with a cryptocurrency scam before returning it to its original content several minutes later. "While the hacked page claimed that the threat actors responsible compromised"multiple devices" that gave them "full access" to internal and secret conversations" of "Trump and relatives," there is no evidence that these statements are true, according to the Trump campaign.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign website was briefly hacked and defaced tonight. It claimed, alongside US government seals, "This site was seized" because "The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded [sic] daily by President Donald J Trump."
Hackers briefly broke into Donald Trump's campaign website on Tuesday, just a week before Election Day, officials and reports said. "The world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded daily by president donald j trump", the message went to say, US media reported.