WillBrink
11-14-19, 08:09
Results are no surprise of course. The US is really one giant soft target:
"Dubbed Operation Blackout, the simulation was hosted in Washington, DC by Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm. The pretend election took place in a fictitious swing-state city called Adversaria. A group of ethical “white hat” hackers—the Red Team—took on a group of federal agents and local cops who comprised the Blue Team. Unlike most simulations like this, the Red Team was explicitly prohibited from hacking into election equipment, forcing them to focus instead on manipulating and interfering in other aspects of the electoral process.
Cybereason co-founder Yonatan Striem-Amit, a former member of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s elite cyber warfare team, told Quartz, “In a country as fragmented as the US, the number of people needed to influence an election is surprisingly small. We attempted to create havoc and show law enforcement that protecting the electoral process is much more than the machine.”
Cont:
https://qz.com/1748054/a-2020-us-election-simulation-ended-with-32-dead-and-200-injured/?fbclid=IwAR0eYoPr91LI3g6QNrRogiqR5uUz5m9ECtL-A-RDdu1pMEUvqsFr8XZ1414
"Dubbed Operation Blackout, the simulation was hosted in Washington, DC by Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm. The pretend election took place in a fictitious swing-state city called Adversaria. A group of ethical “white hat” hackers—the Red Team—took on a group of federal agents and local cops who comprised the Blue Team. Unlike most simulations like this, the Red Team was explicitly prohibited from hacking into election equipment, forcing them to focus instead on manipulating and interfering in other aspects of the electoral process.
Cybereason co-founder Yonatan Striem-Amit, a former member of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s elite cyber warfare team, told Quartz, “In a country as fragmented as the US, the number of people needed to influence an election is surprisingly small. We attempted to create havoc and show law enforcement that protecting the electoral process is much more than the machine.”
Cont:
https://qz.com/1748054/a-2020-us-election-simulation-ended-with-32-dead-and-200-injured/?fbclid=IwAR0eYoPr91LI3g6QNrRogiqR5uUz5m9ECtL-A-RDdu1pMEUvqsFr8XZ1414