Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
House appropriators look to fatten election security grants
Tim Starks / POLITICO / July 8, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Researchers tie email fraud campaign aimed at Fortune 500 firms to Russian scammers
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop / July 7, 2020
Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
Joseph Cox / VICE / July 8, 2020
Billions of passwords now available on underground forums, say security researchers
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / July 8, 2020
Cybersecurity experts take aim at senators over encryption
David Uberti / The Wall Street Journal / July 8, 2020
The coronavirus is ushering in a new era of surveillance at work
Erica Pandey / Axios / July 7, 2020
Big shift to the cloud recorded during the pandemic
Analytics Insight / July 9, 2020
TikTok, once an oasis of inoffensive fun, ventures warily into politics
Georgia Wells et al. / The Wall Street Journal / July 8, 2020
How new API adapters bring unity to the tangle of cybersecurity reporting tools
Bobby McLernon/ Fedscoop/ July 8, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
In Brazil, scammers see the coronavirus as a serious money-making opportunity
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / July 8, 2020
Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife With Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them.
Natasha Singer / The New York Times / July 8, 2020
US War on Huawei Begins to Turn After Europe’s Rough Year
Thomas Seal and Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg / July 8, 2020
U.K.-China tension heats up over Huawei
Zach Dorfman / Axios / July 8, 2020
Alibaba Cloud expands global reach via two new international partnerships
Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post / July 8, 2020
Japan supercomputer suggests changes to travel, work amid airborne virus threat
Rocky Swift / Reuters / July 7, 2020
Hundreds of drones light up Seoul night sky with coronavirus advice
Minwoo Park / Reuters / July 7, 2020
Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development
Che Pan / South China Morning Post / July 8, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Social media platforms gird for 78 days of disinformation chaos after Election Day
Gopal Ratnam / Roll Call / July 7, 2020
Google, Amazon Funnel Money to Virus Conspiracy Sites: Study
Maya Tribbit / Bloomberg / July 7, 2020
TikTok’s ad launch faces challenges from U.S. ban threat, hoaxes
Sheila Dang / Reuters / July 8, 2020
Reddit moderators spent years asking for help fighting hate. The company may finally be listening
Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times / July 8, 2020
Russian disinformation in the time of Covid-19
Sophie Marineau / The Conversation / July 8, 2020
Merkel says pandemic reveals limits of ‘fact-denying populism’
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill / July 8, 2020
Facebook takes down a network of accounts tied to Roger Stone
Dustin Volz / The Wall Street Journal / July 8, 2020
Facebook boots Roger Stone from Instagram in crackdown on ‘inauthentic’ activity
Kyle Cheney and Steven Overly / POLITICO / July 8, 2020
Civil rights auditors hammer Facebook for putting political speech above all else
Steven Overly / POLITICO / July 8, 2020
Facebook suspends disinformation network tied to staff of Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Jack Stubbs and Joseph Menn / Reuters / July 8, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Oregon politician confesses to writing ‘anonymous’ racist letter to himself
Jackie Salo / The new York Post / July 8, 2020
Maryland governor says all polling locations will be open to in-person voters in November
Justine Coleman / The Hill / July 8, 2020
At Least 8,000 Absentee Ballots In Georgia Rejected For Coming In Late
Stephen Fowler, Ada Wood, Nicole Sadek, and Eric Fan / GPB (NPR) / July 7, 2020
Election Experts Warn of November Disaster
Matt Vasilogambros / Pew / July 8, 2020
In new guidance, CDC recommends alternatives in addition to in-person voting to avoid spreading coronavirus
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / The Washington Post / July 7, 2020
Our polling trauma
Sam Wang / Columbia Journalism Review / July 8, 2020
Census to start knocking on doors
Janet Adamy / The Wall Street Journal / July 8, 2020
As voting rolls plunge amid pandemic, progressives try to reinvent the registration drive
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times / July 8, 2020