Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity / Technology
The main beneficiaries of artificial intelligence success are IT departments themselves
Joe McKendrick / ZDNet / July 4, 2020
Hackers are trying to steal admin passwords from F5 BIG-IP devices
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / July 4, 2020
Google-backed groups criticize Apple’s new warnings on user tracking
Stephen Nellis and Paresh Dave / Reuters / July 3, 2020
Defund Facial Recognition
Malika Devich-Cyril / The Atlantic / July 5, 2020
Exclusive: JPMorgan drops terms ‘master,’ ‘slave’ from internal tech code and materials
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall / Reuters / July 2, 2020
Grassroots activists must consider the personal costs of digital campaigns
Delia Dumitrica and Mylynn Felt / The Conversation / July 5, 2020
‘You started the corona!’ As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, climbing past 800, activists push for aid
Anh Do / Los Angeles Times / July 5, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Scam bank messages trick four in five people, research reveals
Mike Wright / The Telegraph / July 4, 2020
Iran threatens retaliation after what it calls possible cyber attack on nuclear site
Francois Murphy et al. / Reuters / July 3, 2020
Exclusive: Huawei faces 5G ban in Britain within months
Edward Malnick / The Telegraph / July 4, 2020
France won’t ban Huawei, but encouraging 5G telcos to avoid it: report
Michel Rose and Jan Harvey / Reuters / July 5, 2020
Tech giants to face EU legal push on content, competition, taxes
Valentina Pop and Sam Schechner / The Wall Street Journal / July 5, 2020
TikTok tackles India app ban, vowing it’s no tool for Beijing
Rajesh Roy and Liza Lin / The Wall Street Journal / July 3, 2020
India seeks to curb Chinese power equipment imports amid tensions
Sudarshan Varadhan and Chris Thomas / Reuters / July 3, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
COVID-19 meets Election 2020: The perfect storm for misinformation
Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times / July 5, 2020
Cultural factors are behind disinformation pandemic: why this matters
Herman Wasserman / The Conversation / July 5, 2020
How to inoculate yourself against rumors about coronavirus–or any subject
Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times / July 5, 2020
How an anti-Trump flash mob found itself in the middle of Russian meddling
Nina Jankowicz / POLITICO / July 5, 2020
Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter
Amanda Seitz / The Associated Press / July 5, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity under siege after Facebook scrutiny
Kurt Wagner and Sophie Alexander / Los Angeles Times / July 3, 2020
Facebook confronts civil rights complaints it put off for years
Naomi Nix / Bloomberg / June 5, 2020
Jim Steyer: the man who took on Mark Zuckerberg
Andrew Anthony / The Guardian / July 5, 2020
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Ali Swenson et al. / The Associated Press / July 3, 2020
Fact check: African leader who spoke of coronavirus tests on goats and fruit did not die from cardiac arrest
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 3, 2020
We live in an age of ‘fake news’. But Australian children are not learning enough about media literacy
Tanya Notley and Michael Dezuanni / The Conversation / July 5, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
More than 18,000 ballots not counted in Florida’s March presidential primary
Allison Ross / Tampa Bay Times / June 29, 2020
Too soon to say if safe to hold Republican convention in Florida, U.S. official says
Doina Chiacu et al. / Reuters / July 5, 2020
Coronavirus threatened to make a mess of Kentucky’s primary. It could be a model instead.
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / July 4, 2020
New York election officials wade through absentee ballots
Jimmy Vielkind / The Wall Street Journal / July 5, 2020
Delaware residents will be able to vote by mail in 2020 as bill becomes law
Randall Chase / Delaware Online / July 1, 2020
Healthcare workers help to administer absentee ballots
Holly Bernstein / KEYC News Now / June 26, 2020
UNM researchers find no evidence of widespread voter fraud
Patrick Hayes / KOB 4 Eyewitness News / June 25, 2020
Supreme Court blocks judge’s order loosening Alabama voting requirements due to virus
Josh Gerstein / POLITICO / July 2, 2020
Amid virus fight, campaign season brings ethical quandaries
Matthew Brown and Iris Samuels / The Associated Press / July 3, 2020
Can’t Request an Absentee Ballot? This Group Wants to Help
Nick Corasaniti / The New York Times / June 30, 2020
Croatia parliamentary race close as virus spikes
The Associated Press / July 5, 2020
Dominican Republic chooses leader amid rising COVID-19 cases
Martín José Adames Alcántara / The Associated Press / July 5, 2020
Egypt sets date for senate elections in August
Nadine Awadalla et al. / Reuters / July 4, 2020