DHS Moniterimg midterm elections

A top Department of Homeland Security official met Tuesday with officials in

Pennsylvania to discuss election security as voters head to the polls for

primaries in the state.

Christopher Krebs, the current acting head of Homeland Security's cyber and

infrastructure protection unit, met with acting Pennsylvania Secretary of

State Robert Torres and other officials Tuesday morning. They discussed

steps the state is taking to ensure its digital systems are secure on

primary day and that officials are prepared to address any issues in the

event something does not go as planned.

Pennsylvania and 16 other states have requested in-depth risk and

vulnerability assessments from the department, which require federal

officials to spend two weeks on the ground in a state to test the security

of their election infrastructure. Officials expect Pennsylvania's assessment

to be completed in June.

"We're also getting more sensors out there to help understand what activity

is happening across state networks," Krebs said. The department's main

concern, he said, is making sure "that the vote counts and is counted

correctly."

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/387748-homeland-security-pennsylvania-officials-discuss-election-security-on

Hussein's pretend library revealed

Federal lawsuit accuses Obama center organizers of pulling an 'institutional

bait and switch'

federal lawsuit filed by a Chicago nonprofit in an attempt to block the

Obama Presidential Center from being built in Jackson Park accuses

organizers of pulling an "institutional bait and switch" by shifting the

center's purpose away from being a true presidential library.

Protect Our Parks Inc. also claims in its lawsuit, which was filed in U.S.

District Court on Monday, that the Chicago Park District and the City of

Chicago don't have the authority to transfer public parkland to

nongovernmental entity such as the Obama Foundation.

It has long been expected that the Park District would sell the land to the

city for a nominal amount and the city would enter into a long-term lease

with the Obama Foundation. The lawsuit, which also names three Chicago-area

residents as plaintiffs, argues that such a maneuver would violate state law

and represents "a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and

seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab."

"The City and Park District clearly realize and fully understand that this

established law precludes the Park District from arbitrarily transferring

possession, use and control of this dedicated 'open, clear and free' public

parkland in Jackson Park to a private nongovernmental . entity's

self-determined use," the complaint says.

The plaintiffs accuse the Obamas of committing an about-face on original

plans for the Jackson Park site to be home to a national presidential

library that would hold historic documents and archives from Barack Obama's

presidency under the National Archives and Records Administration's

supervision.

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White Wizard hacked the Ecuadorian Embassy's network

Revealed: Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange

Ecuador bankrolled a multimillion-dollar spy operation to protect and

support Julian Assange in its central London embassy, employing an

international security company and undercover agents to monitor his

visitors, embassy staff and even the British police, according to documents

seen by the Guardian.

Over more than five years, Ecuador put at least $5m into a secret

intelligence budget that protected the WikiLeaks founder while he had visits

from Nigel Farage, members of European nationalist groups and individuals

linked to the Kremlin.

Other guests included hackers, activists, lawyers and journalists.

In the lead-up to the US presidential election in 2016, his whistleblowing

website WikiLeaks released several batches of emails connected to the

Democratic party and Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Worried that British authorities could use force to enter the embassy and

seize Assange, Ecuadorian officials came up with plans to help him escape.

They included smuggling Assange out in a diplomatic vehicle or appointing

him as Ecuador's United Nations representative so he could have diplomatic

immunity in order to attend UN meetings, according to documents seen by the

Guardian dated August 2012.

In addition to giving Assange asylum, Correas government was apparently

prepared to spend money on improving his image. A lawyer was asked to devise

a media strategy to mark the second anniversary of his diplomatic

asylum, in a leaked 2014 email exchange seen by the Guardian

But the documents showed the way in which the relationship between Assange

and his hosts deteriorated over time.

In an extraordinary breach of diplomatic protocol, Assange hacked into the

communications system within the embassy and had his own satellite internet

access, according to a source.

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