By Dan O Donnell
Jan 25, 2021
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers administration misled reporters about the severity of last month s SolarWinds government computer hack, internal emails from the Evers Administration show. When news broke on December 20th that hackers believed to be from Russia gained entry to federal government systems using security vulnerabilities in SolarWinds software, reporters from both the Associated Press and Bloomberg News contacted Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback as well as Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) spokeswoman Molly Vidal. Are you aware of anything in Wisconsin being targeted? Associated Press reporter Scott Bauer asked in an email at 9:36 am on the 18th. Cudaback and Vidal forwarded this email to several other DOA administrators, who confirmed that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) did indeed use a version of SolarWinds software.
By Dan O Donnell
Jan 25, 2021
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers administration misled reporters about the severity of last month s SolarWinds government computer hack, internal emails from the Evers Administration show. When news broke on December 20th that hackers believed to be from Russia gained entry to federal government systems using security vulnerabilities in SolarWinds software, reporters from both the Associated Press and Bloomberg News contacted Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback as well as Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) spokeswoman Molly Vidal. Are you aware of anything in Wisconsin being targeted? Associated Press reporter Scott Bauer asked in an email at 9:36 am on the 18th. Cudaback and Vidal forwarded this email to several other DOA administrators, who confirmed that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) did indeed use a version of SolarWinds software.
FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, supporters react after it was announced that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump at a rally in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) The Trump campaign on Tuesday again asked the nation’s highest court to invalidate hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots, this time in Wisconsin.
On Dec. 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to take up Trump’s challenge to overturn absentee votes the campaign claims were unlawfully cast and counted. The campaign had also ordered a recount a few weeks after the presidential election in the state’s more liberal counties, Milwaukee and Dane.