Cybersecurity
Ex-Cyber Chief Krebs Calls Election Conspiracies ‘Corrosive’
- Former top cybersecurity chief testifies before Senate panel
- Senate committee holds hearing on election ‘irregularities’
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The U.S. cybersecurity chief fired by Donald Trump last month said continued efforts by the president and his allies to question the election results now that Joe Biden has officially won are having a “corrosive” effect on American institutions.
“Continued assaults on democracy and the outcome of this election that only serves to undermine confidence in the process is ultimately, as you both have said, ultimately corrosive to the institutions that support elections,” Christopher Krebs, the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.