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#CISA: We didn't fire #redteams, we just unhired a bunch of them
Agency tries to save face as it also pulls essential funding for #electionsecurity
Former CISA employee #ChristopherChenoweth, senior pentester, said via LinkedIn he and more than 100 others had government contracts terminated on Feb 28, as ordered by Musk's #DOGE. He said this comprised his entire red team and all support roles, and March 5 a second #redteam tasked with "mission-critical work" was also cut.
theregister.com/2025/03/13/cis

The Register · CISA: We didn't fire red teams, we just unhired a bunch of themBy Connor Jones

🗳️ Election officials play a key role fighting #misinformation abt voting procedures. That’s why CDT + Center for Tech and Civic Life partnered to develop the 2024 course “Combatting Election Misinfo:” cdt.org/insights/helping-elect

The course, originally created ahead of the 2020 election, relaunched in June of this year with updated info about fighting mis- and disinformation: cdt.org/insights/helping-elect #ElectionSecurity #misinformation

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Election workers are trying their very best to ensure every eligible person can cast a ballot in the upcoming U.S. election, and some people are doing their best to thwart that. @gbhnews learned what’s going on in New Hampshire — threats, intimidation, rumors and lies that have led to resignations and retirements of election workers across the state.

wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-10

GBH · New Hampshire election workers are under threat — and they're standing upBy Phillip Martin
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In the section on the #DHS …there’s a plan to eliminate the ability of the agency that monitors #ElectionSecurity to prevent the spread of #disinformation about voting & #vote counting.
…Think back to Nov 2020, when #Trump was developing his #BigLie about the #election he’d lost. Trump’s false assertion the election had been characterized by “massive improprieties & fraud” was tripped up by #ChrisKrebs, who served as dir of the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure #Security Agency (#CISA) in the DHS.