Fired election security expert defends 2020 election before the Senate
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FILE - In this May 22, 2019 file photo, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Chris Krebs, the now fired Homeland Security cybersecurity expert who debunked claims of a rigged election, testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday, reiterating that the 2020 election was fair and that there was no credible evidence of widespread fraud.
Krebs, who was assigned to head Homeland Securityâs Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by the Trump administration in 2018, was fired last month after his agency co-signed a statement defending the 2020 election process. President Donald Trump and Republican allies have continued to claim that the election was rigged and that President-elect Joe Biden was not the
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In a new wrinkle in the still-unfolding SolarWinds saga, it seems that some of the company’s top investors sold off close to a collective $280 million dollars in stock just days before the news of its role in a far-reaching federal cyberattack became public.
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That’s according to a new Washington Post report that specifically calls out two investment firms Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo that together own a whopping 70% of all SolarWind’s stock and controlled six of the company’s board seats. The two firms sold off, respectively, $158 million dollars and $128 million dollars in shares on December 7 six days before SolarWinds disclosed that some of its monitoring products were subject to a “highly-sophisticated” attack at the hands of an unnamed nation state.
Investors Sold an Awful Lot of SolarWinds Stock Before Its Hack Was Disclosed
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In a new wrinkle in the still-unfolding SolarWinds saga, it seems that some of the company’s top investors sold off close to a collective $US280 ($370) million dollars in stock just days before the news of its role in a far-reaching federal cyberattack became public.
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