Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Q&A: CISA’s Masterson on the election cybersecurity battle
Elizabeth Neus / StateTech Magazine / Sept. 18, 2020
DHS whistleblower looks to delay testimony amid effort to access classified intel
Kyle Cheney / POLITICO / Sept. 18, 2020
Twitter bolsters security for political accounts as election looms
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Sept. 18, 2020
The International Playbook for Foiling Russian Interference
Andy Greenberg / WIRED / Sept. 15, 2020
Farm aid, election security stall spending bill
Kristina Peterson / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Campaigners demand Google, Facebook, YouTube stop targeting ads at under 18s
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / Sept. 18, 2020
Former head of cyber-fraud-detection startup NS8 arrested on fraud charges
David Uberti and Jared Council / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
Officials say NASA facing increased targeting by foreign and domestic hackers
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Sept. 18, 2020
Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores beginning Sunday
Jeanne Whalen et al./ The Washington Post / Sept. 18, 2020
TikTok calls for industry support as it promises to challenge ban
Ashley Gold and Sara Fischer / Axios / Sept. 18, 2020
As TikTok and WeChat bans become more likely, users are shook up
Alex Janin et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
Donald Trump targeted both WeChat and TikTok with US bans – so why did it seem Tencent was getting an easier ride?
Iris Deng and Celia Chen / South China Morning Post / Sept. 18, 2020
Firefox bug lets you hijack nearby mobile browsers via WiFi
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / Sept. 18, 2020
Hurd, Kelly make final push to create a national AI strategy
Dave Nyczepir / Fedscoop / Sept. 18, 2020
Palantir embraces government, abandons Big Tech as it prepares to go public
Max Chafkin and Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg / Sept. 18, 2020
Why Amazon committed $2 billion to fund clean energy technology
Ben Geman / Axios / Sept. 18, 2020
Exclusive: Coronavirus lockdowns giving smart speakers a workout
Ina Fried / Axios / Sept. 18, 2020
University of Michigan plans new school of technology and innovation
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Sept. 18, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Iranian hackers found way into encrypted apps, researchers say
Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi / The New York Times / Sept. 18, 2020
Cyber attack suspected in German woman’s death
Melissa Eddy and Nicole Perlroth / The New York Times / Sept. 18, 2020
Aiming Covid-19, generate biomedicines discovers stealth mode using AI and big data
Puja Das / Analytics Insight / Sept. 17, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Postal Service settles lawsuit over misleading Colorado mailers with false voting info
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill / Sept. 18, 2020
Twitter expects changes to misinformation labels through election day
Gabriel T. Rubin / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation
Sonner Kehrt / WIRED / Sept. 15, 2020
No, a Black Lives Matter co-founder didn’t partner with a pro-communist Chinese group
Kevin Roose / The New York Times / Sept. 18, 2020
QAnon conspiracy theory gaining ground in UK, analysis shows
Niamh McIntyre / The Guardian / Sept. 18, 2020
Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis
Jason Wilson / The Guardian / Sept. 18, 2020
Engagement with anti-vaccine Facebook posts trebles in one month
Niamh McIntyre and Ben Quinn / The Guardian / Sept. 19, 2020
Medical experts v anti-vaxxers: the Covid-19 information battle
Ben Quinn and Niamh McIntyre / The Guardian / Sept. 19, 2020
Fact-check: The flu vaccine is not an untested COVID-19 vaccine
Reuters / Sept. 18, 2020
Turkey to fight “propaganda and perception operations”
Reuters / Sept. 18, 2020
Facebook has been a disaster for the world
Jamelle Bouie / The New York Times / Sept. 18, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Virginians come out in force to cast ballots on the first day of early voting
Meagan Flynn et al. / The Washington Post / Sept. 18, 2020
Michigan court rules that late arriving ballots must be counted
Michael Martina / Reuters / Sept. 18, 2020
How to vote by mail in every state
The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
How to track your ballot like a UPS package
Geoffrey A. Fowler / The Washington Post / Sept. 18, 2020
D.C. voting guide: What you need to know about early voting, mail-in ballots
Michael Brice-Saddler / The Washington Post / Sept. 18, 2020
Newly revealed USPS documents show an agency struggling to manage Trump, Amazon and the pandemic
Tony Romm et al. / The Washington Post / Sept. 18, 2020
Timing, signatures and huge demand make mail-in voting difficult
Luke Perry / The Conversation / Sept. 18, 2020
The Election’s Biggest Threat Is No Longer the Postal Service
Russell Berman / The Atlantic / Sept. 18, 2020
Coronavirus campaign: Political candidates run for office while running home schools
Natalie Andrews / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 18, 2020
Obama urges followers to become poll workers
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill / Sept. 18, 2020