Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
The Experts Corner
COVID-19 online disinformation: a canary in the coal mine for election security
Marie Harf / USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative / Aug. 11, 2021
Election Cybersecurity
Mesa County’s election equipment passwords end up online, prompting state investigation
Justine Wingerter / Denver Post / Aug. 9, 2021
Colorado’s secretary of state blames Mesa County clerk for password breach
Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish / The Durango Herald / Aug. 11, 2021
Young County’s new hybrid voting machines
Will Sadler / Olney Enterprise / Aug. 12, 2021
Winnebago County could get new voting machines with stimulus funds
Chris Green / Rockford Register Star / Aug. 11, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology
Report finds US government has made progress on cybersecurity, more work remains
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Aug. 12, 2021
The Cybersecurity 202: The bipartisan infrastructure bill could bring a cyber bounty for state and local governments
Joseph Marks / The Washington Post / Aug. 12, 2021
Schools brace for ransomware attacks
Sam Sabin / POLITICO / Aug. 9, 2021
U.S. Government wants a greater role in how Americans access internet
Jacob M. Schlesinger and Ryan Tracy / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 11, 2021
NSA quietly awards $10 billion cloud contract to Amazon, drawing protest from Microsoft
Aaron Gregg / The Washington Post / Aug. 11, 2021
Hackers stole more than $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave some of it back
Anna Hirtenstein / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 12, 2021
Accenture restores affected systems after reported ransomware attack
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters / Aug. 11, 2021
NortonLifeLock agrees to buy cybersecurity provider avast
Kimberly Chin / The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 10, 2021
Poshmark warns of marketing hit from Apple’s ad tracking changes
Uday Sampath Kumar / Reuters / Aug. 10, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
China signals crackdown on privacy, data, anti-trust to go on
Yew Lun Tian / Reuters / Aug. 11, 2021
TikTok reinforces privacy controls for teenagers
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters / Aug. 12, 2021
Didi denies management changes amid cybersecurity probe
Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh / Reuters / Aug. 11, 2021
China urges automakers to strengthen data protection
Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh / Reuters / Aug. 11, 2021
Disinformation / Misinformation
‘We are in harm’s way’: Election officials fear for their personal safety amid torrent of false claims about voting
Tom Hamburger et al. / The Washington Post / Aug. 11, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems suing Newsmax, One America News over election claims
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill / Aug. 10, 2021
Dominion sues Trump-friendly broadcasters over fraud claims
Jonathan J. Cooper / The Associated Press / Aug. 11, 2021
Former U.S. attorney in Atlanta says Trump wanted to fire him for not backing election fraud claims.
Katie Benner / The New York Times / Aug. 11, 2021
Marquette poll: Nearly 1 in 3 Wisconsinites doubt presidential election results
Riley Vetterkind / Wisconsin State Journal / Aug. 12, 2021
The Cybersecurity 202: My Pillow cyber symposium is yet another font of election fraud lies
Joseph Marks / The Washington Post / Aug. 11, 2021
Facebook bans Russian disinformation network that claimed coronavirus vaccines turn people into chimpanzees
Rachel Pannett / The Washington Post / Aug. 11, 2021
Facebook bans firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign
David Klepper / The Associated Press / Aug. 10, 2021
Inside the White House-facebook rift over vaccine misinformation
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Cecilia Kang / The New York Times / Aug. 10, 2021
Virus misinformation spikes as delta cases surge
Davey Alba / The New York Times / Aug. 10, 2021
YouTube suspends Rand Paul after misleading video on masks
The Associated Press / Aug. 11, 2021
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 7 days over vaccine misinformation.
Davey Alba / The New York Times / Aug. 10, 2021
Twitch shamed into action over hate-raids
Stephen Totilo / Axios / Aug. 12, 2021
The Technology 202: Democrats urged Google to get itself vetted for racial biases. It hasn’t budged.
Cristiano Lima / The Washington Post / Aug. 10, 2021
Bolsonaro prompts fears of a power grab with attacks on Brazil’s voting system
Flávia Milhorance and Ernesto Londoño / The New York Times / Aug. 10, 2021
Newspaper goes online only as as Nicaragua withholds paper
The Associated Press / Aug. 12, 2021
Elections During and After the Pandemic
One-Stop early voting plan for Bladen County is approved
Charlotte Smith / Bladen Online / Aug. 11, 2021
County board votes 4-3 to dissolve election subcommittee
Kortny Hahn / Cheboygan Daily Tribune / Aug. 11, 2021
Officials say new voting audits offer trust and transparency in elections
Jordan Wilkie / Carolina Public Press / Aug. 9, 2021
Legislature’s attorneys say subpoenas for election materials are not valid
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Aug. 11, 2021
Evers vetoes election bills as Republicans question presidential election that has repeatedly been upheld
Hope Karnopp and Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Aug. 10, 2021
Nearly a dozen new state laws shift power over elections to partisan entities
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News / Aug. 12, 2021
Fight for free stamps on Georgia absentee ballots reaches 11th Circuit
Kayla Goggin / Courthouse News Circuit / Aug. 11, 2021
Georgia Secretary of State wants citizenship requirement for voting to be added to state constitution
News4Jax / Aug. 11, 2021
Sec. of State Weber launches voter registration ‘ballot bowl’ for cal college students
By Kassidy Henson / Los Angeles Sentinel / Aug. 12, 2021
Incoming New York governor Kathy Hochul will enter 2022 gubernatorial race
Eugene Scott / The Washington Post / Aug. 12, 2021
Senate adjourns until September without advancing voting rights legislation
Mike DeBonis / The Washington Post / Aug. 11, 2021
Resist urge to get creative on vote-by-mail ballots; machines will miss the point
Michelle Brunetti Post / Press of Atlantic City / Aug. 11, 2021
Zambians voting in elections seen as test of democracy
Farai Mutsaka / The Associated Press / Aug. 12, 2021
Canadian PM Trudeau expected to call snap election
Dave Lawler / Axios / Aug. 12, 2021
Haiti’s presidential election pushed back to November
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill / Aug. 12, 2021