US authorities intend to protect the voting system from cyber attacks

The Obama administration is considering possible steps to further protect the US voting system from cyber attacks. Among other things, it is associated with the latest hacker attacks to the servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, in which Russia was suspected of involvement.

“We need to carefully determine whether our voting system, our entire election process, is in a potentially dangerous environment, like the financial sector or the energy system,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told reporters in Washington.

According to Johnson, there are discussions at the highest levels regarding the “cybersecurity of the election process,” given that votes in the United States are collected by about 9 government agencies, using various methods of collecting, counting and transmitting votes.

For hacking the servers of the Democratic Party, as wrote ForumDaily, followed by the publication of hackers documents on the site WikiLeaks.

Since the national commission for updating the US voting system was established at the national level after the 2000 presidential election, much has changed. The Minister of Internal Security notes that the nature of cyber attacks has evolved.

According to Jay Johnson, long-term investments are needed to ensure maximum security of the voting system.

A spokesman for the White House said Wednesday that voters may not worry about the impact of recent cyber attacks on the November presidential elections.

“There are risks, but I think the people of the United States can have confidence that we can mitigate those risks,” Earnest said.

At the moment, the hacking of Democrats' servers is being investigated by the FBI, and so far, as the Minister of Homeland Security Johnson said, the authorities have no information as to who exactly is involved in this operation.

However, American intelligence agencies have already informed the White House that they are “with a high degree of confidence” in the involvement of the Russian government in this attack.

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