Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
NSA, FBI expose Russian intelligence hacking took: report
Christopher Bing / Reuters / Aug. 13, 2020
Ex-DHS officials urge department to double down on its cybersecurity work
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop/ Aug. 13, 2020
International body says voting problems ‘could harm integrity’ of US election
Julian Borger and Sam Levine / The Guardian / Aug. 13, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Researchers discovered significant vulnerability in Amazon’s Alexa
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill / Aug. 13, 2020
In one click: Amazon Alexa could be exploited for theft of voice history, PII, skill tampering
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / Aug. 13, 2020
Google: We’ll test hiding the full URL in Chrome 86 to combat phishing
Liam Tung / ZDNet / Aug. 13, 2020
Corporate America worries WeChat ban could be bad for business
John D. McKinnon and Lingling Wei / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban
Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 13, 2020
‘Fortnite’ kicked off Apple and Google app stores after Epic Games moves to bypass fees
Sarag E. Needleman / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
Facebook AI chief pushes the technology’s limits
Steven Rosenbush / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
Marketers extend their social-media scrutiny beyond Facebook
Nat Ives / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
Lessons for social media from the Fairness Doctrine
Philip M. Napoli / Columbia Journalism Review / Aug. 13, 2020
What a Biden-Harris White House could mean for tech policy
David Uberti and Jared Council / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Exclusive: ByteDance censored anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020 – sources
Fanny Potkin / Reuters / Aug. 13, 2020
FBI and NSA Disclose Malware Used by Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’
Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg / Aug. 13, 2020
US seizes virtual currency alleged to fund militant groups
Eric Tucker / The Associated Press / Aug. 13, 2020
U.S. adds Slovenia to its anti-Huawei coalition of the willing
Laurens Cerulus / POLITICO / Aug. 13, 2020
Pompeo presses his campaign against Chinese telecom companies during trip to Eastern Europe
Carol Morello and Nejc Trusnovec / The Washington Post / Aug. 13, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
‘Fake news’ methods change faster than Western governments can react. Here’s how to keep up.
H. Akin Unver / The Washington Post / Aug. 13, 2020
Political trolls adapt, create material to deceive and confuse the public
Gianluca Stringhini and Savvas Zannettou / The Conversation / Aug. 13, 2020
Fake news fears drive audiences away from social media, Ofcom finds
Craig Simpson / The Telegraph / Aug. 13, 2020
Distrust of authority fuels virus misinformation for Latinos
The Associated Press/ The New York Times/ Aug. 13, 2020
QAnon Booms on Facebook as Conspiracy Group Gains Mainstream Traction
Deepa Seetharaman / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
The QAnon cult is growing and the media is helping
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review / Aug. 13, 2020
Logically launches tool to identify and combat fake news ahead of US elections
Eileen Brown / ZDNet / Aug. 13, 2020
Big Tech pushes voter initiatives to counter misinformation
Sara Fischer and Ashley Gold / Axios / Aug. 13, 2020
Facebook launches new election efforts, will expand labels for posts on voting
Justin Wise / The Hill / Aug. 13, 2020
[Video] Facebook bracing for an election night without results
Bloomberg Business / Bloomberg / Aug. 13, 2020
Kamala harris will face a new kind of disinformation
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg / Aug. 13, 2020
The Wikipedia War Over Kamala Harris’s Race
Joshua Benton / The Atlantic / Aug. 13, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Supreme Court won’t block Rhode Island’s eased absentee voting rules
Marisa Fernandez / Axios / Aug. 13, 2020
Michigan to mail cards telling 4.4M they can vote from home
David Eggert / The Associated Press News / Aug. 13, 2020
Trump requests mail-in ballot for Florida primary
Evan Semones / POLITICO / Aug. 13, 2020
Election commission orders top voting machine vendor to correct misleading claims
Kim Zetter / POLITICO / Aug. 13, 2020
When and how to vote in all 50 states
Stef W. Kight and Naema Ahmed / Axios / Aug. 13, 2020
Trump ties fate of Post-Office funding to mail-in voting
Rebecca Ballhaus and Andrew Duehren / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 13, 2020
‘Chaos and confusion’: Post Office cuts fuel worries over mail voting
Arit John / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 13, 2020
Since 2016, 11 states and D.C. have expanded voting rights for the currently and formerly incarcerated
Brittany Renee Mayes and Kate Rabinowitz / The Washington Post / Aug. 12, 2020
Will Michigan Democrats really turn out after a virtual campaign?
Tim Alberta / POLITICO / Aug. 13, 2020
The boys and girls on the Zoom
Eli Okun and John F. Harris / POLITICO / Aug. 13, 2020
Chris Evans hopes to shield democracy with politics website
Ryan Pearson / The Associated Press / Aug. 13, 2020