Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Twitter hack presages a bumpy election
Scott Rosenberg et al. / Axios / July 17, 2020
Who’s going to derail the presidential election? The culprit may be close to home
Deirdre Shesgreen and Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today / July 17, 2020
Biden warns of Russian election meddling after receiving intelligence briefings
Micahel Martina / Reuters / July 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Four states join cybersecurity automation pilot
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / July 16, 2020
Twitter says 130 accounts affected by high-profile hack
Hannah Boland / The Telegraph / July 17, 2020
Twitter hack exposes broader threat to democracy and society
Laura DeNardis / The Conversation / July 17, 2020
FCC approves a more accurate broadband data collection method
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / July 17, 2020
Emotet botnet returns after a five-month absence
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / July 17, 2020
U.S. weighs ban on TikTok as friction with China rises
Demetri Sevastopulo et al. / Los Angeles Times / July 17, 2020
Video: Tiktok’s multiple cybersecurity risks
Bloomberg Technology / Bloomberg / July 17, 2020
Graves goes big on cyber in last days of Appropriations
Martin Matishak / POLITICO / July 17, 2020
VC Daily: Biotech startups ramp up funding and fight against coronavirus; companies face new privacy ruling
The Wall Street Journal / July 17, 2020
Educators, governors ask Congress for more remote-education funding
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / July 17, 2020
Researchers are developing tools to calculate AI’s carbon footprint
Sara Castellanos / The Wall Street Journal / July 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
China in renewed crackdown on app developers for overzealous collection of private data
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post / July 17, 2020
Russian hackers return to spotlight with vaccine research attack
Olivia Beavers and Maggie Miller / The Hill / July 17, 2020
Russia has no need to steal coronavirus vaccine secrets, says Vladimir Putin ally
Robert Mendick et al. / The Telegraph / July 17, 2020
Court ruling leaves companies scrambling for new ways to move data for Europe to the U.S.
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / July 17, 2020
Internet disrupted in Iran province as police disperse rally
The Associated Press / July 16, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Google bans ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content
Sheila Dang / Reuters / July 17, 2020
Democrats chide Facebook over climate disinformation
Rachel Frazin / The Hill / July 17, 2020
Advertising giants agree to evaluate mutual definition of hate speech
Sara Fischer / Axios / July 17, 2020
Fact check: Empty shelf photo doesn’t show new surge in demand for Goya products
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 17, 2020
AI-powered fake news spotter under development at ASU
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / July 17, 2020
The Troll: A fake flag burning at Gettysburg was only his latest hoax
Shawn Boburg and Dalton Bennett / The Washington Post / July 17, 2020
Bangladeshi hospital owner arrested in fake virus test case
Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / July 17, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
U.S. Rep. Jason Crowe wants vote-by-mail in next relief package
Joey Bunch / Colorado Politics / July 16, 2020
Millions of Massachusetts applications for mail-in ballots are in the mail
John R. Ellement / Boston Globe / July 16, 2020
Election process changes in the works
Wendall Waters / Wicked Local Boxford / July 16, 2020
WI Disability Vote Coalition works to eliminate election barriers
Emily Friese / 27 WKOW ABC / July 16, 2020
Wisconsin absentee ballots didn’t get counted because late delivery, misdelivery and bad postmarks, post office says
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / July 10, 2020
Louisiana voters claim they did not receive mail-in ballots they requested; LDP planning legal action
Donovan Jackson / WAFB 9 / July 13, 2020
Texas runoff elections show stress of coronavirus pandemic on state’s voting systems
Alexa Ura / Texas Tribune / July 13, 2020
Pandemic Among Reasons For Nearly 200 Voting Centers In Dallas County For Primary Runoff
Jack Fink / CBS DFW 21 / July 13, 2020
It took a doctor’s note and mad dash to Sonic for this coronavirus sufferer to vote
Alexa Ura / Texas Tribune / July 14, 2020
Two Texas counties are trimming polling locations as workers pull out over coronavirus
Alexa Ura / Texas Tribune / July 9, 2020
Georgia tries to avoid calamity, fix election problems
Mark Niesse and Amanda C. Coyne / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / July 9, 2020
Panel OKs sending ballot request forms to all Iowa voters
David Pitt/ The Associated Press News / July 17, 2020
Native Americans faced difficulties voting in the primary
Michael Gerstein / Santa Fe New Mexican / July 14, 2020