#USPol #politics #introduction
Exciting news, #hackers: the #KamalaHarris campaign will be hosting a reception to support her candidacy at #Defcon on August 8.
If you're interested in protecting our democracy and supporting a candidate who understands what a future looks like that hasn't been captured by corporate tech interests, I encourage you to join me in donating and attending this special event.
The donation link is https://secure.kamalaharris.com/a/mid-a-bvf
Last October, while in the home stretch of an off-year campaign for elected office, a political candidate's inbox received a series of email-borne attacks. @SophosXOps investigated both the business email compromise (BEC) and the phishing emails the candidate received.
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2024/06/13/election-phishing-campaign/
I'm actually astonished at how bad the answers were from this Colorado state senator Mark Baisley (2nd from left, so-called "freedom senator") to questions on this panel about #infosec and #elections.
When asked about the risks to lower or local/downballot candidates were minimal (wrong!), and when asked how political parties or candidates should protect voter roll data, he answered "obfuscation, security through obfuscation" (I guess he's unfamiliar with the baseline security principle of "there's no security through obscurity.")
We desperately need more people to run for office who know what they're talking about. This was just embarrassing.
I'm at Google in #Boulder attending the Defending Digital Campaigns summit, with a lot of folks discussing how politicians and political campaigns are targets for cybercrime and a whole host of other threats. Jena Griswold just spoke about all the problems elections officials face. #COPolitics #Colorado #ElectMoreHackers
I'm a fan of @egallager live-tooting the NH legislature, even though I don't think I've ever even been to #NewHampshire (I follow him because I'd met him at #LibrePlanet). Anyone know of other legislators who live-toot (hopefully in #Colorado #COPolitics)? #ElectMoreHackers
A long post about the end of my campaign and derision I have received, and some uplifting and slightly sappy views about hackers and politics
Why you need an infosec analyst on your #SchoolBoard: I received two scam emails this past weekend on an account I use for my candidacy and alerted my fellow candidates.
The scams were fairly rudimentary "iTunes gift card" fraud, but the attackers did look for and use the names of other candidates and one actual board member in their scam emails.
I had heard that politicians get hit with a larger-than-average volume of #malspam but this was a new one for me. Also, totally hamfisted, using UTC+3 time zone and a Russia-based webmail provider. Try harder next time, losers!
@adamshostack ..aaaand I've just received word that my petitions were accepted, and my name will appear on the November 7, 2023 ballot!
@evangreer All the more reason we need to #ElectMoreHackers