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Published December 20, 2020, 4:14 PM The Internal Affairs Service of the Philippine National Police (PNP-IAS) has started deploying its inspection teams in communist rebel-infected areas to ensure field units are prepared for possible attacks by the New People’s Army (NPA), which will mark its 52nd anniversary on Dec. 26. IAS Inspector General Alfegar Triambulo said the priorities of the inspections are police stations and community precincts in areas where communist rebels are known to operate and with a history of NPA attacks. He said the inspection teams are composed of IAS personnel wh...

Falanx Group clarifies on SolarWinds Orion Platform cyberattack 7:23 am Falanx Group Ltd (LON:FLX), the AIM listed provider of cyber security and strategic intelligence services provides its investors with some clarity over the recent news of the supply chain attack on the SolarWinds ® Orion  2020.2 HF1. “ We have just been made aware our systems experienced a highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack on SolarWinds® Orion® Platform software builds for versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1. We have been advised this attack was likely conducted by an outside nation sta...

From bad hackers. jillian turner has details. >> the house committee is thinking outside of the box to protect future elections from foreign meddling. in 2019 they propose the department of homeland security set up a hacking competition to identify vulnerabilities in systems across the country. the idea for ethical hackers to break into the u.s. system. voter databases and report their findings back to the government. this is called red teaming and said the government will use the hacker's findings to patch up holes in the system. where the innovation comes in. we have not done it at this scal...

>> it's a process the private sector already relies on. >> if you look at google, microsoft, facebook, twitter, the banks, a lot of fortune 500 companies established capture the flag competitions. >> red teaming may be a common practice, it carries risks that need to be managed. >> typically there are rules of engagement given to participants in these hacks. >> hackers need to be vetted and signed nondisclosure contracts to prevent leaking classified information. >> just because you give a group of computer scientists or hackers access to certain systems doesn't mean they get the kings to the ...

Say that our voting machines are so antiquated. that the contracts don't allow us to do red teaming where they try to hack them. the combination of only four companies who provide the machines and the software that are used by counties and states around the country would suggest to us, we have never put in place the kind of controls that needed to be put this place to protect the vote. that's why we need paper ballots, scanning of them and we need audits. >> i understand what you mean when the zlurt needs to be. but to press again, do you know of any evidence that any votes were changed? i thi...