AJC: Cybersecurity expert says Georgia’s election system is vulnerable to attacks

David Wickert of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on a cyber security expert’s testimony that Georgia’s election system is vulnerable to attacks.

A cybersecurity expert testified Monday that Georgia’s election system is vulnerable to attacks that could jeopardize the integrity of the November election.

Lawyers for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rejected the testimony as the same “tired old claims” that have been rejected by other courts all over the country.

The arguments came during trial in a lawsuit filed last month by the DeKalb County Republican Party. The party argues that encryption keys that protect passwords and other information for Georgia’s Dominion Voting System machines were revealed and readable in election databases released by four Georgia counties in response to records requests. Clay Parikh, a cybersecurity expert hired by the party, reviewed the databases, which are snapshots of the counties’ databases following the 2020 election. Not only could he access the encryption keys, but he found identical passwords used in other states with Dominion machines. He said that could allow someone who gained access to one Dominion system to get access to others.

Read more at AJC.