Judicial Watch: Records Show Obama DHS Scanned Georgia E******n Site in 2016
Dec 13, 2020 13:22:00 #
(Washington, DC) "Judicial Watch announced today that it received 243 pages of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show the Obama administration’s scanning the e******n systems of Georgia, Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky and West Virginia in 2016. This activity prompted a letter from then-Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson accusing DHS of, an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.
The records were produced in response to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which asked for all records related to reported cyberattacks against the Georgia secretary of state’s information network involving DHS, including investigative reports, memoranda, correspondence and communications between October 1, 2016, and February 14, 2017.
The minutes of a DHS 'Enterprise Security Operations Center' (ESOC) meeting indicate that on November 15, 2016, at 8:43 a.m. a 'scanning event' occurred. The ‘scanning event' was the result of a FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Center] user’s Microsoft Office Discovery Protocol sending a packet with the OPTIONS f**g to the Secretary of State of Georgia site.
The minutes notes that the Enterprise Security Operations Center 'has received requests from NCCIC [DHS’s The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center] and MS-ISAC [Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center] to investigate other states that have seen ‘suspicious’ activity.
The minutes note that Kemp accused DHS of conducting illicit scans on at least February 2, February 28 and May 23, 2016, as well..."
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/obama-dhs-scanned-ga/
The records were produced in response to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which asked for all records related to reported cyberattacks against the Georgia secretary of state’s information network involving DHS, including investigative reports, memoranda, correspondence and communications between October 1, 2016, and February 14, 2017.
The minutes of a DHS 'Enterprise Security Operations Center' (ESOC) meeting indicate that on November 15, 2016, at 8:43 a.m. a 'scanning event' occurred. The ‘scanning event' was the result of a FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Center] user’s Microsoft Office Discovery Protocol sending a packet with the OPTIONS f**g to the Secretary of State of Georgia site.
The minutes notes that the Enterprise Security Operations Center 'has received requests from NCCIC [DHS’s The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center] and MS-ISAC [Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center] to investigate other states that have seen ‘suspicious’ activity.
The minutes note that Kemp accused DHS of conducting illicit scans on at least February 2, February 28 and May 23, 2016, as well..."
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/obama-dhs-scanned-ga/
Dec 13, 2020 15:46:31 #
BigMike wrote:
color=blue i (Washington, DC) "Judicial Wat... (show quote)
Judicial Watch is about as credible as OAN.
Dec 13, 2020 15:52:43 #
Dec 13, 2020 16:04:16 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
BigMike wrote:
color=blue i (Washington, DC) "Judicial Wat... (show quote)
Since you've failed to overturn this e******n, you want to go back and redo 2016's?
Dec 13, 2020 17:07:51 #
kemmer wrote:
Judicial Watch is about as credible as OAN.
There are links to the DHS site. Not that you care to check a thing out for yourself because you've been trained to reject everything except baby food. How utterly lazy and selfish.
Dec 13, 2020 17:09:19 #
lpnmajor wrote:
Since you've failed to overturn this e******n, you want to go back and redo 2016's?
Failed? Ya...we're going back as far as it takes to rid ourselves of the corrupt political class, which YOU aren't part of, just so you know.
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