Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Intel community readies postmortem on foreign interference in 2020 election
Martin Matishak / POLITICO / Nov. 17, 2020
Underwood plans to focus on election security, ransomware as chair of House cyber panel
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Nov. 17, 2020
Fewer opportunities and a changed political environment in the U.S. may have curbed Moscow’s election interference this year, analysts say
Ellen Nakashima / The Washington Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Trump fires CISA chief Chris Krebs, who guarded the 2020 election from interference and domestic misinformation
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Nov. 17, 2020
Voting machine supplier criticized by Trump in spotlight on election integrity
Alexa Corse / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Congress needs to step up in ransomware fight, House cybersecurity panel chair says
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Nov. 17, 2020
Tech’s legal shield draws substantive scrutiny
Cecilia Kang / The New York Times / Nov. 17, 2020
Twitter announces ‘Fleets,’ which automatically delete after 24 hours
Marina Pitofsky / The Hill / Nov. 17, 2020
TikTok beefs up parental controls
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios / Nov. 17, 2020
Instagram cautiously considers paying publishers
Sara Fischer / Axios / Nov. 17, 2020
The Influencer Commentariat
Mary Retta / Columbia Journalism Review / Nov. 17, 2020
Breakingviews – Gunmakers and social networks are due a defrocking
John Foley / Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
Redefining the cybersecurity strategy associated with data breach?
Astha Oriel / Analytics Insight / Nov. 17, 2020
Bots grade your kids’ schoolwork—and they’re often wrong
Julie Jargon / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 17, 2020
Tech workers don’t hate the military that much — most don’t even really care
Jackson Barnett / WorkScoop / Nov. 17, 2020
Industry-government partnerships to fill security skills gaps
Cyberscoop Staff / CyberScoop / Nov. 17, 2020
A scientist’s viral tweet called Elon Musk ‘Space Karen’ — as a way to defend science
Travis M. Andrews / The Washington Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 17, 2020
CORRECTED-Russian economy set to lose $44 bln to cyber crime in 2020 -Sberbank
Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
Baidu buys live-streaming service YY as it seeks to catch rivals such as ByteDance and Tencent in new online ad channels
Che Pan and Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Explainer | What is facial recognition, and why is more relevant than ever during the coronavirus pandemic?
Melissa Zhu / South China Morning Post / Nov. 18, 2020
Tencent’s cloud tech helps blockchain firm manage digital records to get people travelling again amid Covid-19
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Trump lashes vote-tech firm with barrage of debunked claims
Daniel Zuidijk and Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg / Nov. 17, 2020
The election was a chance for Facebook and Twitter to show they could control misinformation. Now lawmakers are grilling them on it.
Cat Zakrzewski and Rachel Lerman / The Washington Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Zuckerberg, Dorsey tout progress in combating political misinformation
John D. McKinnon and Ryan Tracy / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 17, 2020
Giuliani denies asking for $20,000 a day to do legal work for Trump
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill / Nov. 17, 2020
Obama says social media ‘turbocharged’ threat of misinformation
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Nov. 17, 2020
Fact check: Photo of blank ballots in Allentown, PA, is not proof of election fraud
Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
Fact check: Fabricated Rudy Giuliani quote about Dominion and election fraud
Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
Fact check: What’s true and what’s false about the 2020 election
Ella Lee / USA Today / Nov. 17, 2020
Why US ballot count live streams became misinformation magnets
Clara McMichael / The Guardian / Nov. 17, 2020
A website funded by right-wing groups gains followers with debunked voting fraud claims.
Dan Bilefsky / The New York Times / Nov. 17, 2020
YouTube to add link on COVID-19 vaccines to combat misinformation
Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
The Cybersecurity 202: The next big disinformation fight is coming – over coronavirus vaccines
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Nov. 17, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Michigan panel reverses itself, certifies Detroit-area election results
Rebecca Davis O’Brien et al. / The Wall Street Journal / Nov. 17, 2020
Georgia, Wisconsin recounts likely will not change Trump election defeat, officials say
Jason Lange and Doina Chiacu / Reuters / Nov. 17, 2020
Review of Georgia’s voting machines found no foul play
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Nov. 17, 2020
Lindsey Graham condemned for allegedly pressuring Georgia to toss out ballots
Kenya Evelyn / The Guardian / Nov. 17, 2020
Hawthorne men accused in voter fraud plot to obtain 8,000 mail ballots for ‘nonexistent or deceased’ person
James Queally / Los Angeles Times / Nov. 17, 2020
State officials say they’re baffled, offended by false election claims
Arielle Mitropoulos and Will McDuffie / ABC News / Nov. 17, 2020
Biden Covid advisers say transition delay hurts pandemic prep beyond vaccines
Alice Miranda Ollstein / POLITICO / Nov. 17, 2020