13% of US presidential election officials inadequate cyber attack countermeasures US survey July 27, 20:43

Regarding the US presidential election that will be voted this fall, 13% of the county and local officials who are in charge of elections are inadequate measures such as using free email vulnerable to online attacks Was found in a security company survey.

The survey was compiled by a California-based cybersecurity company, which is about 100 days into the presidential election.

According to the survey, a survey was conducted on more than 12,000 county and local election officials who were in charge of the US presidential election, and about 13%, or 1635 people, used free e-mails vulnerable to online attacks. It means that the countermeasures against cyber attacks are inadequate.

Furthermore, in six counties such as Michigan and Missouri, the US NSA (National Security Agency) warned that software that was warned that it was a target of online attacks from Russian intelligence agencies was used as a mail server. I was using it.

In the presidential election four years ago, it was revealed that a hacker in Russia attacked the election system, and the state's voter database in two counties was compromised in Florida, which was one of the close battle states at that time It has become.

A leading paper, The Wall Street Journal, said experts that "the people's trust in the outcome of the election is not directly linked to the e-mail system of the person in charge." There is a concern that it will be damaged.”