Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
The Cybersecurity 202: High voter turnout suggests enthusiasm and anxiety about ballots being counted
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Oct. 15, 2020
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Election Cybersecurity
How officials are protecting the election from ransomware hackers
Patrick Howell O’Neill / MIT Technology Review / Oct. 15, 2020
Study: Half of battleground states facing cybersecurity challenges ahead of election
Maggi Miller / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
White House flags 20 technologies for agencies to promote and protect
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / Oct. 15, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Robinhood Internal Probe Finds Hackers Hit Almost 2,000 Accounts
Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg / Oct. 15, 2020
Federal watchdog finds escalating cyberattacks on schools pose potential harm to students
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
Barnes & Noble confirms cyberattack, suspected customer data breach
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / Oct. 15, 2020
Twitter suffered widespread service disruption, says there is no evidence of security breach or hack
Sarah E. Needleman / The Wall Street Journal / Oct. 15, 2020
C-SPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully for lying about Twitter hack
Orion Rummler and Sara Fischer / Axios / Oct. 15, 2020
TikTok expands disclosure efforts on cybersecurity threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
FCC to review liability shield for internet platforms
John D. McKinnon / The Wall Street Journal / Oct. 15, 2020
With Prop. 24, California is trying to rewrite the rules of online privacy. Again.
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times / Oct. 15, 2020
Can machine learning calculate unreported COVID-19 cases?
Puja Das / Analytics Insight / Oct. 14, 2020
IBM, ServiceNow partner on AI effort aimed at identifying IT anomalies
John McCormick / The Wall Street Journal / Oct. 15, 2020
NASCIO 2020: Vigilant states adopt emerging tech for citizen services
Mickey McCarter / StateTech Magazine / Oct. 15, 2020
Chatbots were a ‘godsend’ for states’ pandemic responses, CIOs said
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Oct. 15, 2020
Santa Fe, N.M., hopes for ‘tech ecosystem’ with university partnership
Ryan Johnston / StateScoop / Oct. 15, 2020
Texas A&M deploys self-swabbing COVID-19 testing kiosks
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Oct. 15, 2020
How we discovered that VR can profile your personality
Stephen Fairclough / The Conversation / Oct. 15, 2020
Some states plan to forge ahead with their own Google probe, as federal lawsuit appears imminent
Tony Romm / The Washington Post / Oct. 15, 2020
DOE research facilities move to Google Cloud
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / Oct. 15, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Iran says hackers attacked two of its key institutions
Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020
Iranian state hacker group linked to ransomware deployments
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / Oct. 15, 2020
Governments around the globe find ways to abuse Facebook
Sara Fischer and Ashley Gold / Axios / Oct. 15, 2020
Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook
Jennifer Cobbe / The Guardian / Oct. 15, 2020
Beyond the Great Firewall: China’s vast censorship apparatus ropes in companies to do the work themselves
Masha Borak / South China Morning Post / Oct. 16, 2020
What decoupling? In China’s ‘iPhone City’, it’s full steam ahead to produce Apple’s new 5G iPhone 12
Orange Wang and Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Oct. 15, 2020
Artificial intelligence nod from China’s science ministry puts Beijing tech park in the national spotlight
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Oct. 15, 2020
Uber joins forces with SK Telecom to crack tough South Korea market
Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020
Standard Chartered backs passwordless tech startup Secret Double Octopus
Anna Irrera / Reuters / Oct. 14, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
U.S. intelligence official says social media “big vulnerability”
Alyza Sebenius and Chris Strohm / Bloomberg / Oct. 15, 2020
Facebook, Twitter’s handling of New York Post article raises election night concerns
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
Twitter briefly restricts Trump campaign account, Republicans decry company’s actions
Elizabeth Culliford and Nandita Bose / Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020
Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the arbiters of truth
Laurence Dodds / The Telegraph / Oct. 15, 2020
White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump
Shane Harris et al. / The Washington Post / Oct. 15, 2020
YouTube joins Silicon Valley peers in preelection QAnon clampdown
Elizabeth Dwoskin and Isaac Stanley-Becker / The Washington Post / Oct. 15, 2020
Twitter changes policy on hacked materials — but links to N.Y. Post story still blocked
Cristiano Lima / POLITICO / Oct. 15, 2020
Senate to subpoena Twitter CEO over blocking of disputed Biden articles
Siobhan Hughes / The Wall Street Journal / Oct. 16, 2020
Facebook has made lots of new rules this year. It doesn’t always enforce them.
Jeff Horwitz / The Wall Street Journal / Oct. 15, 2020
Facebook and Twitter have bitten off too much
Jack Shafer / POLITICO / Oct. 15, 2020
Facebook, YouTube moves against QAnon are only a first step in the battle against dangerous conspiracy theories
Marc-André Argentino / The Conversation / Oct. 15, 2020
Racist comments flood online Kansas State diversity event
The Associated Press / Oct. 14, 2020
Fact check: Fabricated Trump quote on Amy Barrett’s looks
Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020
Facebook shuts NZ party’s page before polls over COVID-19 misinformation
Reuters / Oct. 14, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Overloaded voter check-in system partly blamed for long early voting lines in Georgia
Paulina Firozi / The Washington Post / Oct. 15, 2020
Legislation talks on mail ballots, other election issues are stalled in Pennsylvania
The Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Oct.15, 2020
Appeals court throws out lawsuit from Navajo Nation members seeking to ease Arizona ballot deadlines
Harper Neidig / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
Judge puts on hold Texas’ limit on drop boxes for absentee ballots
Jan Wolfe / Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020
Here’s how King, Snohomish and Thurston counties plan to keep voting secure in the November election
Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times / Oct. 14, 2020
In State After State, Voters Face Barriers to the Ballot Box
PEW Stateline / Oct. 15, 2020
Most voters expect intimidation at the polls. But they’re voting in record numbers.
Laura Santhanam / PBS News Hour / Oct. 15, 2020
States seeing record early voting turnout amid pandemic
Marty Johnson / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
U.S. Postal Service agrees to reverse service changes as election looms
The Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Oct. 15, 2020
2020 election already most expensive ever
Reid Wilson / The Hill / Oct. 15, 2020
Kamala Harris pauses in-person campaigning after staffer diagnosed with COVID-19
Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters / Oct. 15, 2020