The latest news on this front comes from a really interesting article by The Hill‘s Maggie Miller:
Christopher Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency, described Florida as one of the “best” states in terms of election security on Wednesday, despite the recent announcement two counties were breached in 2016,
At the same hearing, a senior Justice Department official said that hacking of election systems is “inevitable.”
“What we are finding is that Florida is probably one of our best partners of any state in the union right now,” Krebs said at a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing on election security. “Of their 67 counties, or their 67 election supervisor jurisdictions, they are all working with us in some shape or form.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) said last week two countries, which have not been named, were hacked during the 2016 presidential election by Russian cyber actors.
See full story here.
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