(Joe Hoft) A judge is withholding the release of an audit report of Dominion voting machines in Georgia. Now the federal government and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has inserted itself into the case and is asking the judge to delay the report longer.
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Strange: Rare Emergency Directive to “Power Down” After U.S. Agencies Hacked in Foreign Cyber Espionage Campaign
(Leisa Audette) Democrats didn’t waste any time blaming President Trump for the hack of federal networks because he fired the director of the CISA (the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) a few weeks ago (see below).
Federal Government Confirms U.S. Treasury and Other Government Agencies Breached by Foreign Hackers
(Ari Hoffman) According to sources, the hack was so severe that it triggered a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday. The federal government confirmed the reports of the hacks late Sunday.
U.S. Silently Passes And Signs Bill To Create New Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(Aaron Kesel) A bill silently passed through Congress and to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desk that was signed right before Thanksgiving last week, which would re-designate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) into a new agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA.)
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
Source – Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 21:49 -0500 Update: CISA is now the law: OBAMA SIGNS SPENDING, TAX BILL THAT REPEALS OIL EXPORT BAN * * * Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a […]