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Election Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity lessons learned from the 2020 election season
Jon Mazella / StateTech Magazine / Dec. 9, 2020
Website targeting U.S. election officials draws attention of intelligence agencies
Andy Sullivan et al. / Reuters / Dec. 10, 2020
Colorado House speaker nixes probe into voting system
The Associated Press / Dec. 8, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
The Cybersecurity 202: Securing the electric grid should be priority for Biden’s first 100 days, expert says
Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Dec. 8, 2020
‘It’s not going away.’ Pressure on Facebook likely to continue under Biden administration
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times / Dec. 10, 2020
Biden’s promised Cuba reset has big tech implications
Nancy Scola / POLITICO / Dec. 11, 2020
Nine government tech stories that made 2020
Colin Wood / StateScoop / Dec. 11, 2020
Scoop: WhatsApp goes after Apple over privacy label requirements
Sara Fischer / Axios / Dec. 9, 2020
Scoop: Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist
Ina Fried / Axios / Dec. 9, 2020
Google hires Goldman Sachs veteran to lead cloud security
James Rundle / The Wall Street Journal / Dec. 11, 2020
Watched at work: Microsoft’s frightening “Productivity Score” tool
Axios / Dec. 8, 2020
Activism defined social media in 2020
Orion Rummler and Sara Fischer / Axios / Dec. 8, 2020
‘Doomscrolling’: A Twitter habit is the new, high-tech way to slide into despair
Ben Zimmer / The Wall Street Journal / Dec. 10, 2020
Hurd and Kelly’s national AI strategy resolution passes House
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / Dec.9, 2020
Navy CISO gets another key cyber role
Jackson Barnett / FedScoop / Dec.11, 2020
Google Cloud powering new Air Force flight simulators
Jackson Barnett / FedScoop / Dec. 10, 2020
‘Immense’ synergies to be gained between TIC 3.0 and CDM
FedScoop / Dec. 8, 2020
Federal agencies look to user-first tech in pandemic response
Sara Wilson / FedScoop / Dec. 10, 2020
Pfizer says some vaccine documents accessed in EMA hack
Timothy Annett and Riley Griffin / Bloomberg / Dec. 10, 2020
Palantir lands $44.4M FDA contract for data management and analytics platform
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / Dec.9, 2020
Creating a hybrid workforce for a post-pandemic era
Walter Maikish / FedTech / Dec. 8, 2020
FireEye, a top cybersecurity firm, says it was hacked by a Nation-State
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth / The New York Times / Dec. 8, 2020
Research: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking
Frank Bajak / The Associated Press / Dec. 8, 2020
Scammers use Chrome, Firefox extensions in widespread ad fraud campaign
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Dec. 10, 2020
FTC and states sue Facebook for illegally stifling competition
Margaret Harding McGill and Ashley Gold / Axios / Dec. 9, 2020
California seeks to join Justice Department antitrust case against Google
John D. McKinnon and Brent Kendall / The Wall Street Journal / Dec. 11, 2020
Five tech giants are harder to slay than one
Scott Rosenberg / Axios / Dec. 11, 2020
The Facebook lawsuits explained
Shira Ovide / The New York Times / Dec. 10, 2020
How Facebook grew into trouble
Leah Nylen / POLITICO / Dec. 9, 2020
Federal agencies warn of hackers targeting online K-12 classes
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Dec. 11, 2020
What’s the key to tackling cyber attacks? Building a diverse team to think smarter
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / Dec. 9, 2020
FCC moves against China Telecom and Huawei, citing security
Todd Shields / Bloomberg / Dec. 11, 2020
House Intel Republicans demand answers on Swalwell’s relationship with Chinese spy
Mairead McArdle / The National Review / Dec. 11, 2020
How cities are forging partnerships to close the digital divide
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / Dec. 10, 2020
Universities prepare for another largely virtual semester in 2021
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Dec. 11, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
EU agency in charge of COVID-19 vaccine approval says it was hacked
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / Dec. 9, 2020
E.U.’s top drug regulator says it’s “fully functional’ after cyberattack
Elian Peltier / The New York Times / Dec. 10, 2020
Google, Amazon fined $163 million as France takes hard line on privacy
Sam Schechner / The Wall Street Journal / Dec. 10, 2020
Facebook tracks ‘OceanLotus’ hackers to IT firm in Vietnam
Jack Stubbs and James Pearson / Reuters / Dec. 10, 2020
Hackers leverage Facebook, Dropbox to spy on Egypt, Palestinians
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Dec. 9, 2020
Australian spy agencies urged to overhaul 1950s-era security vetting to rise to China challenge
Nino Bucci and Daniel Hurst / The Guardian / Dec. 9, 2020
Criminals getting smarter in use of digital currencies to launder money
Anna Irrera / Reuters / Dec. 9, 2020
TikTok owner Bytedance set to become world’s most valuable VC-backed company
Dan Primack / Axios / Dec. 11, 2020
German court forces encrypted email provider Tutanota to provide messages in blackmail case
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Dec. 9, 2020
Norway says Russian hacking group APT28 is behind August 2020 Parliament hack
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / Dec. 8, 2020
DBS to start members-only digital bourse for crypto assets
Chanyaporn Chanjaroen / Bloomberg / Dec. 10, 2020
Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated
Iwa Salami / The Conversation / Dec. 11, 2020
Philippine’s Union Bank more vigilant on cybersecurity: Ortiz
Bloomberg / Dec. 8, 2020
Mountain park in Wuhan gets hi-tech upgrade with self-driving buses, vending vans and cleaning vehicles
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Dec. 11, 2020
Has COVID cost friendships? Technology may have helped people stay connected during the pandemic
Shane Rogers / The Conversation / Dec. 9, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Krebs blames Trump for ‘disinformation,’ says democratic institutions ‘under attack from the inside’
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Dec. 8, 2020
Google lifting political ad freeze Thursday
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill / Dec. 9, 2020
YouTube is forbidding videos claiming widespread election fraud.
Davey Alba / The New York Times / Dec. 9, 2020
Chinese Embassy retweets Trump’s false claims of election fraud, then backtracks.
Vivian Wang / The New York Times / Dec. 10, 2020
America’s new news war
Sara Fischer / Axios / Dec. 9, 2020
Exclusive: Most Americans don’t trust social media on COVID-19 vaccine info
Ina Fried / Axios / Dec. 8, 2020
Twitch cracks down on hate speech and harassment
Kellen Browning / The New York Times / Dec. 9, 2020
Social media in 2020: A year of misinformation and disinformation
Kathryn Kranhold / The Wall Street Journal / Dec. 11, 2020
Why can’t the social networks stop fake accounts?
Jack Nicas / The New York Times / Dec. 8, 2020
The search for misinformation’s measure
Kyle Daly / Axios / Dec. 9, 2020
Fact check: Partly false list of alleged ‘stacked deck’ with politicians’ family links
Reuters / Dec. 10, 2020
Fact check: Colorado vaccination bill SB-163 does not force the flu, HPV and COVID-19 vaccines on children
Reuters / Dec. 9, 2020
A discreet Indian firm is running a global disinformation campaign, says report
Pallavi Pundir / Vice / Dec. 11, 2020
Pakistan accuses India of funding disinformation campaign in EU
Reuters / Dec. 11, 2020
Far-right groups have used COVID to expand their footprint in Australia. Here are the ones you need to know about
Kaz Ross / The Conversation / Dec. 10, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Michigan House cancels more voting sessions due to virus
David Eggert / The Associated Press / Dec. 8, 2020
More eligible Californians voted in November’s election than any time since 1952
John Myers / Los Angeles Times / Dec. 11, 2020
The Republicans who aren’t sold on Trump’s last-ditch effort to overturn the election
Aaron Blake / The Washington Post / Dec. 11, 2020