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CISA, FBI urge local election offices to move to .gov domains


The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published a guide intended to help state and local agencies move their websites to the sponsored .gov top-level domain.

The guide notes that foreign adversaries and other cyber threat actors have demonstrated the intent to target election infrastructure. As such, the two agencies are recommending all election offices and state, local, tribal and territorial governments adopt a top-level .gov domain. In 2020, the FBI warned of “typosquatting” domains, intended to trick visitors seeking state election office websites.

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