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Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against conservative attorney Sidney Powell, who has made baseless claims that the company had a starring role in election fraud that helped Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump in November.
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Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against conservative attorney Sidney Powell
Powell has made baseless claims that the company had a starring role in election fraud that helped Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump in November
Dominion says Powell s false accusations have “irreparably damaged Dominion’s reputation and destroyed the resale value
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf participate in a roundtable discussion. Some cyber experts take notion with claims that agencies and companies were too consumed with election security to recognize supply chain vulnerabilities. (Homeland Security Department)
Reported theories by SolarWinds hack investigators that federal agencies and private companies were too busy focusing on election security to recognize vulnerabilities tied to the software supply chain are unfair and misleading, say cybersecurity experts that used to work in government.
And yet, those same experts acknowledge that such accusations offer an important cybersecurity lesson for businesses: organizations must ensure that their entire attack surface receives attention.
Justice Department was hacked by Russians in ongoing cyberespionage campaign - officials
By The Washington Post
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington - The Justice Department has become the latest known victim of Russian hackers, who are engaged in an ongoing campaign of cyberespionage that has afflicted federal agencies and the private sector.
A department spokesman said Wednesday that the department s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), which handles network security, on Dec. 24 learned of malicious activity linked to the hacking campaign.
The intrusions into other federal agencies and technology firms were discovered earlier last month, and in the Justice Department s case it involved its unclassified Office 365 email system, spokesman Marc Raimondi said.
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