Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
Protecting NH Elections From Cyberattacks Public Forum May 27
Paula Tracy / InDepthNH.org / May 25th, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Rep slams ‘vulgar images’ and ‘racist words’ that disrupted virtual youth anti-violence event
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / May 24th, 2020
U.S. cybersecurity deficiencies can no longer be ignored
Hugh Hewitt / The Washington Post / May 24th, 2020
Top UN official warns malicious emails on rise in pandemic
Edith M. Lederer / The Associated Press / May 23rd, 2020
How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE / May 22nd , 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology – International
Huge rise in hacking attacks on home workers during lockdown
Jasper Jolly / The Guardian / May 24th, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
States’ reporting of coronavirus testing data leads to confusion
Michelle R. Smith / The Associated Press / May 24th, 2020
Bots Are Likely Responsible For Nearly Half Of COVID-19 Tweets, Say Researchers
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost / May 24th, 2020
It is time tech companies act on election-time disinformation
Rafael Goldzweig / Al Jazeera / May 23rd, 2020
Facebook Is Taking Down Posts That Cause Imminent Harm — But Not Posts That Cause Inevitable Harm
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed / May 23rd, 2020
Report: Chinese posted 90,000 tweets since April in massive coronavirus disinformation campaign
Kyle Perisic / American Military News / May 22nd, 2020
Bots account for nearly half of Twitter accounts spreading coronavirus misinformation, researchers say
Jason Silverstein / CBS NEws / May 21st, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Voting by Mail in November? States Need to Prepare Now
Alexa Corse and Robert McMillan / The Wall Street Journal / May 23rd, 2020
GOP sues California over Newsom’s vote-by-mail order
Brandon Conradis and John Bowden / The Hill / May 24th, 2020
The pandemic has already altered how tens of millions of Americans can cast their ballots this year
Elise Viebeck / The Washington Post / May 23rd, 2020