SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green Hills Software today announces that it has provided its most secure communications and computing devices to protect sensitive information belonging to U.S. presidential campaigns from being hacked by malicious foreign actors.
Presidential campaigns have been historically run on insecure commercial grade software that has been repeatedly hacked by malicious foreign actors. In July, the Trump campaign saw its systems breached by Iranian hackers. In 2020, Microsoft said that the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by hacking groups with links to foreign adversarial nation states. In 2016, the Clinton presidential campaign fell victim to a hack-and-leak operation by a foreign nation state.
Election interference by a foreign nation is threatening our democratic process. Green Hills Software has stepped forward to prevent any further hacking of presidential campaigns by offering them secure technologies that have been proven to defend and protect our government. These systems are designed for military applications where lives are on the line. They never fail and can’t be hacked.
All other smartphone operating systems are hacked regularly, forcing manufacturers to keep sending out emergency security updates to patch vulnerabilities that have been exploited by hackers. Even end-to-end encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal are rendered insecure by operating system vulnerabilities. Only a phone running on an operating system that never fails and can’t be hacked can be relied on to keep messages completely confidential. The only phone with this capability is the INTEGRITY®-178 phone.
Green Hills Software’s unhackable phones and computers run on its proprietary INTEGRITY-178 operating system. INTEGRITY-178 is the world’s most secure operating system. It never fails and can’t be hacked. INTEGRITY-178B is used to secure the United States’ nuclear bombers such as the B-2 and B-1B, fighter jets such as the F-22 and F-35, and commercial airliners including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787. The FBI uses Green Hills Software’s unhackable laptops to protect field communications over insecure public Wi-Fi networks.
In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by the NSA to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Only an EAL 6+, High Robustness operating system is certified to protect high value resources at risk of attack from hostile and well-funded attackers. Commercial grade operating systems used in smartphones such as Apple iOS can’t be certified to EAL 5. Any rating below EAL 5 means the system is vulnerable to moderately skilled hackers.
Green Hills Software’s devices can also be used by high-profile individuals to keep their secrets secret and their business private. Green Hills Software’s devices are impervious to Pegasus, NSO Group’s notorious spyware. Nobody can remotely listen in to calls or access text messages between the devices.
Dan O’Dowd, President and CEO of Green Hills Software, commented: “Hacking by malicious foreign actors has become all too common in recent years and the time has come to take action to secure our democracy.
“Most recent U.S. election campaigns have been the victims of hack-and-leak operations. We owe it to our democracy to ensure that our elections are decided by the American people and not by foreign agents who wish harm to our country.
“We must also ensure that the same level of security and reliability used in nuclear systems be applied to voting machines, given their critical role in the electoral process.
“Securing the integrity of the democratic process is paramount. Green Hills Software’s secure communications devices are already protecting the Trump campaign.”
Notes to Editors: Dan O'Dowd has been the pioneer of developing software that never fails and can’t be hacked since his days at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He graduated from Caltech in 1976 with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering and is a recipient of the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, which is the highest honor which Caltech bestows upon a graduate.
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY®-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom.
In 2021, O’Dowd founded The Dawn Project, a safety advocacy group that is campaigning to make computers safe for humanity by ensuring that software in safety-critical infrastructure never fails and can’t be hacked.
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