Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Top election officials warn election systems being ‘scanned’ for vulnerabilities by adversaries
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Aug. 26, 2020
U.S. officials see no evidence of foreign meddling with mail-in ballots
Mark Hosenball / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
Cyber Command deploys abroad to fend off foreign hacking ahead of the 2020 election
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Aug. 26, 2020
Fed ramping up election defenses for the 2020 endgame
Tim Starks / POLITICO / Aug. 26, 2020
Paper ballots could save the election, DHS cybersecurity chief says
Dan Patterson / CNET / Aug. 26, 2020
The missed cyber opportunity in the Senate Intel report on Russia
Zach Dorfman / Axios / Aug. 26, 2020
How endpoint detection and response can improve election security
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / Aug. 26, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
North Korean hackers ramp up bank heists: U.S. government cyber alert
Christopher Bing / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
U.S. warns of global bank heist campaign by North Korean hackers
Dustin Volz and Ian Talley / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 26, 2020
Pandemic giving ransomware ‘greater attack surface’ as tactics shift, ex-FBI agent says
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Aug. 26, 2020
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quits as Trump pushes Chinese app to sell U.S. business
Liza Lin / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 27, 2020
Facebook says Apple’s new privacy rules could spare its own apps but hit smaller companies
Stephen Nellis et al. / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
Facebook warns advertisers on Apple privacy changes
Sara Fischer / Axios / Aug. 26, 2020
Facebook criticized for slow action against Kenosha militia page
Ina Fried / Axios / Aug. 26, 2020
AT&T’s WarnerMedia, Xandr pair up to sell digital ads to political advertisers
Sheila Dang / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
UT Austin launches $20m machine learning research institute
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Aug. 26, 2020
Houston offers technical training to low-income residents, students
Ryan Johnston / WorkScoop / Aug. 25, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Cyberattacks halt New Zealand’s stock exchange twice in two days
Stuart Condie / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 26, 2020
Do intelligence agencies need restructuring for the digital disinformation age?
Stilgherrian / ZDNet / Aug. 26, 2020
‘Black holes’: India’s coronavirus apps raise privacy fears
Anuradha Nagaraj / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
Thai minister says clampdown won’t stop as Facebook plans to fight order
Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
As Huawei struggles to find alternatives to US chip tech, it finds itself a pawn in a much bigger power game
Celia Chen et al. / South China Morning Post / Aug. 27, 2020
European regulators list detailed privacy violations to justify fines
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 26, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Black voters are being targeted in disinformation campaigns, echoing the 2016 Russian playbook
Craig Timberg and Isaac Stanley-Becker / The Washington Post / Aug. 26, 2020
Two lawmakers take aim at QAnon
Melanie Zanona / POLITICO / Aug. 26, 2020
Fact check: Party affiliation on mail-in ballots only for Florida primaries, not general election
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
Fact check: The 2020 DNC did not omit ‘under God’ from every Pledge of Allegiance
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / Aug. 26, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
No count on provisional ballots until Tuesday
Cliff Williams / The Outlook / Aug. 26, 2020
Judge orders Tennessee election officials to list coronavirus on mail-in ballot form
John Bowden / The Hill / Aug. 26, 2020
Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic
Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum / ProPublica / Aug. 26, 2020
Secretary of state issues new postage rule for ballots
The Associated Press / Aug. 26, 2020
Rhode Island launches 211 voter information hotline
The Associated Press / Aug. 26, 2020
Gov. Newsom signs executive order to help county election officials prepare for upcoming election
Joseph Luiz / KGET.com / Aug. 26, 2020
Mobile voting can ease polling place unease in the COVID-19 era
Jonathan Johnson / Tech Crunch / Aug. 26, 2020
Mail-in voting’s potential problems only begin at the post office – an underfunded, underprepared decentralized system could be trouble
Jennifer Selin / The Conversation / Aug. 26, 2020
Drop-box voting solves problems of pandemic election, slow mail
James D. Zirin / Bloomberg / Aug. 26, 2020
Everything you need to know about voting by mail
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Aug. 26, 2020
Biden supporters in states where it is hardest to vote by mail are most concerned about voting this fall
Vianney Gomez and Bradley Jones / Pew Research Center / Aug. 26, 2020
Cities risk losing out on trillions in federal aid as census deadline looms
Nolan D. McCaskill et al. / POLITICO / Aug. 26, 2020