Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
List of 2020 election meddlers include Cuba, Saudi Arabia and North Korea, US intelligence official says
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Aug. 20, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Facebook can’t appease either political party ahead of the election
Sara Fischer and Ashley Gold / Axios / Aug. 20, 2020
Biden prepping to ramp up U.S. cyber defenses – while keeping some Trump policies
Eric Geller / POLITICO / Aug. 20, 2020
Working from home causes surge in security breaches, staff ‘oblivious’ to best practices
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / Aug. 20, 2020
Adviser cybersecurity programs getting stronger – U.S. industry survey
Jason Wallace / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Zuckerberg testified before FTC during antitrust probe into Facebook
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios / Aug. 20, 2020
Accusations of hobbling internet freedom fund roil U.S. media agency
Sara Fischer and Alayna Treene / Axios / Aug. 20, 2020
Former government officials argue for a new tech agency
Ashley Gold / Axios / Aug. 20, 2020
Why Epic wants you fighting its #FreeFortnite war against Apple and Google
Todd Martens / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 20, 2020
Former Uber security chief charged criminally in connection with 2016 hack
Robert McMillan / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 20, 2020
California court ruling gives voters last word over Uber, Lyft worker rights
Tina Bellon and Norma Geleana / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Colleges face education challenge on cybersecurity
James Rundle / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 20, 2020
At universities, contact tracing app reception hinges on privacy
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Aug. 20, 2020
Education is a top U.S. priority, and there’s wide support for online learning, poll finds
Nina Agrawal / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 20, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Weeks after malware disruption, New York hospital is getting back online
Sean Lyngaas / Cyberscoop / Aug. 20, 2020
Nearly 235 million social media profiles from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube exposed in data leak
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Aug. 20, 2020
Twitter data case sparks dispute, delay among EU privacy regulators
Sam Schechner / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 20, 2020
China says Taiwan hacking allegations are ‘malicious slander’
Gabriel Crossley and Ben Blanchard / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Huawei, long resilient, suffers under tougher US pressure
Joe McDonald / The Associated Press / Aug. 20, 2020
Google plays hardball in Australia over news payment law
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review / Aug. 20, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Why is the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement growing during a pandemic?
David Crow and Kiran Stacey / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 20, 2020
The Technology 202: Facebook is cracking down on QAnon only after it invaded mainstream politics
Cat Zakrzewski and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Aug. 20, 2020
Facebook’s latest purge of QAnon conspiracy theory pages unlikely to affect growing Australian following
Christopher Knaus / The Guardian / Aug. 20, 2020
The partisan pandemic: Do we now live in alternative realities?
Andrea Robbett and Peter Hans Matthews / The Conversation / Aug. 20, 2020
Does mail-in voting lead to fraud – and does it help Democrats? The facts
Sam Levine / The Guardian / Aug. 20, 2020
Can you believe it? Here are 8 coronavirus myths people still think are true
Lisa Gutierrez / The Seattle Times / Aug. 20, 2020
Fact check: Photo questioning Kamala Harris’ African ancestry does not show her parents
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Fact check: Kamala Harris’s proposed executive order on gun control misrepresented
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Fact check: Article claiming AOC wants to end Social Security for those over 75 is satire
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Florida’s primary modeled a smooth election by mail. Yes, Florida
Brendan Farrington and Nicolas Riccardi / The Associated Press / Aug. 20, 2020
N.C. judge won’t halt use of touch-screen vote-mark machines
Gary D. Robertson / The Associated Press / Aug. 20, 2020
What the CDC’s guidelines for polling places are missing
Richard H. Pildes et al. / POLITICO / Aug. 20, 2020
Ballot drop boxes are latest battleground in U.S. election fight
Andy Sullivan and Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters / Aug. 20, 2020
Freed slaves founded this town. Their descendants fear postal cuts threaten voting rights
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 20, 2020
5 myths about the postal crisis
Kevin R. Kosar / POLITICO / Aug. 20, 2020
Here’s why the Postal Service wanted to remove hundreds of mail-sorting machines
Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham / The Washington Post / Aug. 20, 2020
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
Laura J. Nelson and Maya Lau / Los Angeles Times / Aug. 20, 2020