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Forget homelessness, Sarasota charity tackles Arizona voter fraud

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Wearing a cutout of Donald Trump's face, Jeff LeBaron of Bradenton attends a rally for former President Donald Trump at the Sarasota Fairgrounds on July 3, 2021. DANIEL WAGNER / HERALD-TRIBUNE

Yeah, yeah, so the world has a few problems. Like the virus, earthquakes and terrorists overtaking countries. Big deal. You want a problem? Try losing an election you won. Now that’s a problem. Show a little compassion, will you?

Forget helping the homeless and hungry, thank goodness a charity exists with its priorities straight. One like the America Project, based right here in Sarasota, of course, and in the true spirit of spreading benevolence throughout humanity, its desire is to have the 2020 election overturned and Donald Trump restored to the presidency.

The America Project, registered in Florida as a charity, has given $3.25 million to Cyber Ninjas, the controversial Sarasota computer security company conducting an audit of 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, Az.

Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com and one of the America Project’s founders, said during an internet interview on something called The Daily 302 that he thinks results of the Ninjas’ meticulous work on behalf of the nation will be revealed this week. Fraud will be found, he predicts, and enough that 13 to 20 other states will conduct recounts as well.

Wearing a cutout of Donald Trump's face, Marc DiMaggio of Punta Gorda attends a rally for former President Donald Trump at the Sarasota Fairgrounds on July 3. DANIEL WAGNER / HERALD-TRIBUNE

The America Project registered as a charity with the state of Florida on June 18, and nowhere in its mission declaration does it mention donations go toward funding an audit in Arizona, which may be a violation of Florida statute depending on interpretation.

The charity lists 8388 S. Tamiami Trail as its address, which is a UPS store in Sarasota. Cyber Ninjas, which is being investigated by top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, lists a UPS store on Fruitville Road.

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Don’t Forget Internet of Things Safety on Vacation

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Home is where the ‘smart’ is. A recent study revealed the average American household has 25 connected or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The number of consumers who have smart home devices connected to their home internet has grown by 38% since the pandemic began. The findings don’t surprise Brad Ree, the chief technology officer (CTO) of Internet of Things solutions at the ioXt Alliance. Nor do they surprise Adam Laurie, IBM Security X-Force Red’s lead hardware hacker. Ree has more than 80 connected devices in his home. Laurie recently found five connected or IoT devices that he didn’t know existed inside his home. Even more, when he looked at the firewall rules on his internet service provider’s router, the universal plug and play (UPnP) was switched on, adding firewall rules for smart devices in his home unbeknownst to him. 

In addition, with the pandemic nearing the rearview window, employees are starting to travel again. This increase also means vacation rental home bookings are up. One vacation home company notes that by the end of March 2021, 90% of its homes in New Jersey and Cape Cod were booked for July. Another company revealed the booking lead time for summer stays at its rental properties is 147 days this year.

Internet of Things Security in Vacation Homes

While renting a vacation home can provide more space for less money, it can also create more attacker opportunities. For example, Ree shared a story about a recent family vacation. He, his wife and kids stayed in a vacation rental home from where he worked for a week. Being the security savvy CTO that he is, the minute he entered the home, Ree performed a port scan to see if anyone else could connect to the network. To his surprise, various past visitors had added multiple firewall rules to the home network. Any one of the rules could have enabled the visitors to remain connected, even remotely. The access also meant if the visitors had malicious intentions, they could compromise Ree’s laptop and potentially his employer’s network.

“You are staying in an open environment,” says Ree. “Don’t assume it is your house. In a vacation rental home, an attacker…

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John Ivison: Forget the Cold War, this cyber conflict is hot

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The continual attempts to disrupt government and commerce ‘would be an act of war in a different era’ said one insider. ‘We’re in a conflict, it just looks a little bit different’

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John Ivison

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Apr 07, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •  62 Comments

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri speaks at a news conference in Oldsmar, Fla., on Feb. 8 about a hacker gaining access to Oldsmar’s water treatment plant to taint the water supply.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri speaks at a news conference in Oldsmar, Fla., on Feb. 8 about a hacker gaining access to Oldsmar’s water treatment plant to taint the water supply. Photo by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office via AP

Two days before Superbowl LV in Tampa in early February, someone hacked into a water treatment plant in nearby Pinellas County and tried to poison Florida’s water supply. The unknown attacker used a password to break into the remote access software platform that controls the plant and adjusted the level of sodium hydroxide to more than 100 times normal levels – an act that would have had catastrophic consequences had a sharp-eyed operator not spotted the move and re-adjusted the chemical levels.

American investigators were contacted by Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which has experience with water facility attacks, after a similar incident in 2020 that the NCD’s director said was “a changing point in the history of cyber warfare.” He noted that the attack against Israel was not accompanied by a ransom demand, suggesting it was not the work of cyber-criminals.

The source, or sources, of the attacks remains unknown, but it is apparent that cyber-espionage is not a benign activity.

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Canada’s adversaries in the cyber-sphere are constantly searching for vulnerabilities and trawling for administrator credentials.

Yet there is a remarkable lack of public outcry when it emerges that cyber-attacks were committed by Russia, China, Iran or North Korea.

The frontline defence against such bad actors is the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber-centre), which issued a threat assessment last year.

“We judge it is very unlikely that cyber…

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Forget Google—Huawei Plans A Killer New Update To Make Millions Switch Phones – Forbes

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Forget Google—Huawei Plans A Killer New Update To Make Millions Switch Phones  Forbes
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