Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
The tech industry’s election security offerings for 2020
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
Election Cybersecurity
Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits can help defend elections can help defend elections and democracy, IU study finds
Indiana University Bloomington / Sept. 2, 2020
House approves legislation making hacking voting systems a federal crime
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Sept. 21, 2020
FBI hopes a more aggressive cyber strategy will disrupt foreign hackers
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
Election security researchers agree — online voting isn’t ready for ‘prime time’
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
[Podcast] Is our elections infrastructure ready for the November election?
StateScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
Why a think tank is connecting cybersecurity volunteers with election officials
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
The Cybersecurity 202: The next Supreme Court justice could play a major role in cybersecurity and privacy decisions
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Sept. 21, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Hacking the classroom
Juan Perez Jr. / POLITICO / Sept. 21, 2020
The Technology 202: Here are six questions about the tentative deal between Trump and TikTok
Cat Zakrzewski and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Sept. 21, 2020
What US users can expect after Donald Trump’s ban on WeChat was suspended
Iris Deng and Karen Chiu / South China Morning Post / Sept. 22, 2020
Why you’re getting so many political text messages right now
Jennifer Stromer-Galley / The Conversation / Sept. 21, 2020
CIA launches federal lab to support innovative intelligence breakthroughs
Bill Mitchell / FedScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
How the pandemic opened the door for data opportunities in the cloud
Chris Hayhurst / StateTech Magazine / Sept. 21, 2020
Police departments turn to AI-based intervention system for officer misconduct
John McCormick / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 21, 2020
Homework helpline matches struggling preK-12 students with teachers-in-training
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Sept. 21, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
NYPD officer charged with feeding information on Tibetans to China
Orion Rummler / Axios / Sept. 21, 2020
U.S. joins global bid to carve up the internet with TikTok move
Aaron Tilley / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 21, 2020
ByteDance, Oracle at loggerheads over terms of TikTok agreement
Echo Wang and Yingzhi Yang / Reuters / Sept. 21, 2020
Chinese leaders split over releasing blacklist of U.S. companies
Lingling Wei / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 21, 2020
Chinese cameras blacklisted by US being used in UK school toilets
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian / Sept. 21, 2020
Hackers leak data on 1,000 Belarusian police officers
Agencies in Minsk / The Guardian / Sept. 20, 2020
Password education should be age-appropriate: here’s how
Karen Renaud and Suzanne Prior / The Conversation / Sept. 21, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Lofty aspirations for Facebook groups risk linking wrong people
Laurence Dodds / The Telegraph / Sept. 21, 2020
Former Nashville official who publicly doubted COVID-19 dies of virus
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Sept. 21, 2020
Conservative blogger who spread COVID-19 misinformation worked for Fauci’s agency
Axios / Sept. 21, 2020
Fact check: 1995 Oklahoma City bombing not comparable to damage in unrest since George Floyd’s death
Reuters / Sept 21. 2020
Fact check: McDonald’s has not removed its U.S. flags to show support of Antifa and Black Lives Matter
Reuters / Sept. 21, 2020
Global report: Trump wrongly claims Covid affects ‘virtually’ no young people
Helen Sullivan / The Guardian / Sept. 22, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Minnetonka voters to decide on voting method for city council
Kristen Miller / Sun Sailor / Sept. 21, 2020
No problems expected for Hawaii’s new vote-by-mail system for the Nov. 3 election
Blaze Lovell / Honolulu Civil Beat / Sept. 21, 2020
More than 65K in West Virginia have requested mail-in ballots
Joselyn King / The Weirton Daily Times / Sept. 21, 2020
Georgia’s Fulton County works to avoid another vote debacle
Kate Brumback / The Associated Press / Sept. 20, 2020
Judge extends Wisconsin’s mail-in voting deadline
Harper Neidig / The Hill / Sept. 21, 2020
Nevada judge tosses Trump campaign lawsuit over mail-in ballots
Michael Martina / Reuters / Sept. 21, 2020
Nationwide injunction issued to shield mail-in votes during pandemic
John Russell / Courthouse News Service / Sept. 21, 2020
Voting-rights lawsuits explode as 2020 election kicks into high gear
Bianca Bruno / Courthouse News Service / Sept. 21, 2020
How the Supreme Court could affect voting rules on Election Day
Michael Wines / The New York Times / Sept. 21, 2020
Over 3 million U.S. voters have already registered on social media
Sara Fischer / Axios / Sept. 21, 2020
Patagonia going the extra mile for Election Day
Marianne Wilson / Chain Store Age / Sept. 21, 2020
Pizza to the Polls aims to feed hungry 2020 voters stuck in long lines
Allison Gordon / KTen ABC / Sept. 21, 2020