Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Q&A: Colorado’s Jena Griswold on how to get ahead of election security threats
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / July 30, 2020
Volunteer hacker army boosts U.S. election cybersecurity
Kevin Collier / NBC News / July 30, 2020
Election officials game out worst-case scenarios in drills
Eric Tucker / The Associated Press / July 30, 2020
China says U.S. fueling new cold war due to presidential election
Reuters / The New York Times / July 30, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Twitter links hack to phone-based phishing attack
Robert McMillan / The Wall Street Journal / July 30, 2020
Tennessee to test cybersecurity of its next-generation 911 systems
Colin Wood / StateScoop / July 30, 2020
With new export controls, US takes another step to clamp down on China
Jodi Xu Klein / South China Morning Post / July 30, 2020
Even Facebook Is Pining for the Internet It Destroyed
Katilyn Tiffany / The Atlantic / July 30, 2020
The social media census
Kim Hart / Axios / July 30, 2020
What’s in the Senate’s relief bill for state and local tech? Nothing, yet
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / July 29, 2020
Justice Department probe of TikTok, Zoom urged by two senators
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg / July 30, 2020
Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
Michael Schuman / The Atlantic / July 30, 2020
Top antitrust Democrat: There’s a case to break up Facebook
Ina Fried / Axios / July 30, 2020
Everything you need to know about the Big Tech antitrust hearing
WSJ Noted / The Wall Street Journal / July 30, 2020
Morgan Stanley leads bank group on cloud data standards
James Rundle / The Wall Street Journal / July 30, 2020
Private browsing: What it does – and doesn’t do – to shield you from prying eyes on the web
Lorrie Cranor and Hana Habib / The Conversation / July 30, 2020
U. Illinois students help WHO build COVID-19 analytics tools
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / July 30, 2020
Taking on SpaceX, Amazon to invest $10 billion in satellite broadband plan
David Shepardson and Joey Roulette / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Exclusive: Chinese-backed hackers targeted COVID-19 vaccine firm Moderna
Christopher Bing and Marisa Taylor / Reuters / July 30, 2020
EU imposes sanctions on Russian, North Korean, Chinese groups and individuals for major cyberattacks
Maggie Miller / The Hill / July 30, 2020
Huawei wrests crown of world’s biggest smartphone vendor from Samsung on strong China sales
Celia Chen / South China Morning Post / July 30, 2020
Exclusive: Portugal telcos won’t use Huawei for core 5G networks though no government ban
Sergio Goncalves / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Exclusive: India found cybersecurity lapses at National Payments Corp in 2019 – government document
Aditya Kalra / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Data privacy: stricter European rules will have repercussions in Australia as global divisions grow
Normann Witzleb / The Conversation / July 30, 2020
Anti-Amazon campaigners in France team up to say ‘non’ to firm’s expansion
Christian Lowe et al. / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Local U.S. election officials fight disinformation ‘virus’, whether from overseas or Trump
Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Russia-aligned hackers running anti-Nato fake news campaign – report
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian / July 30, 2020
The epistemic tragedy of coronavirus misinformation
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review / July 30, 2020
Fact check: Captain America did not predict the current coronavirus pandemic
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Fact check: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not say private truck drivers were “destroying America”
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
GOP appeals court’s waiver of mail ballot witness requirements
Steph Machado / WPRI Eyewitness News / July 30, 2020
NC needs more poll workers this year, but the pandemic has made them harder to find
NC Watchdog Reporting Network / WBTV News / July 30, 2020
County Board of Elections leader confident mail-in ballots will be secure
The Robesonian / July 30, 2020
North Carolina State Board of Elections gives 12 reasons why absentee voting is safe
13 News Now Staff / 13 News Now / July 30, 2020
Stack set to introduce early voting bill in coming weeks
Nikita Biryukov / The New Jersey Globe / July 30, 2020
Wisconsin official outlines absentee ballot system upgrades
Todd Richmond / The Associated Press / July 30, 2020
Detroit plans to keep poll workers, voters safe from virus
Corey Williams / The Associated Press / July 30, 2020
Op-Ed: Poll worker shortages are threatening the 2020 election. Young people can be the solution
Maya Patel / Los Angeles Times / July 30, 2020
Poll: More Than Half of Young People Lack Resources to Vote By Mail
Barbara Sprunt / National Public Radio / July 30, 2020
The Cybersecurity 202: Klobuchar is bullish Congress will deliver more election money for states
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / July 30, 2020
Postal service backlog sparks worries that ballot delivery could be delayed in November
Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Jacob Bogage / The Washington Post / July 30, 2020
Election Day won’t be in November
Renuka Rayasam / POLITICO / July 30, 2020
Poll: 70 percent of Americans support voting by mail
Jonathan Eeasley / The Hill / July 30, 2020
A Brief History of Disputed Elections
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek / July 30, 2020
More Than a Vote is more than a statement for LeBron James and other athletes
Emmanuel Morgan / Los Angeles Times / July 30, 2020
Trump floats election delay, lawmakers in both parties reject idea
Steve Holland / Reuters / July 30, 2020
Trump criticizes voting by mail. Here’s how it works.
Alexa Corse / The Wall Street Journal / July 30, 2020