Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
The Experts Corner
Russia already at work meddling in upcoming German elections
Marie Harf / USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative / Sept. 9, 2021
USC in the News
Experts, politicians talk misinformation, disinformation & cyber-security threats from rival nations
Jon Kipper / 3 News Now / Sept. 9, 2021
Paul Pate calls election security a ‘race without a finish line’
Katie Akin / Iowa Capitol Dispatch / Sept. 9, 2021
Election Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity 202: More secure election machines won’t be ready until 2024
Joseph Marks / The Washington Post / Sept. 9, 2021
Germany investigates Russia over pre-election hacking
Melissa Eddy / The New York Times / Sept. 10, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology
Howard cancels another day of online and hybrid classes as officials investigate alleged cyberattack
Lauren Lumpkin / The Washington Post / Sept. 8, 2021
‘Cyber grave robbers’ stole Surfside condo collapse victims’ identities to buy designer goods, police say
Jaclyn Peiser / The Washington Post / Sept. 9, 2021
Encryption poised to hamper Jan. 6 investigators’ phone records push
Nicholas Wu / POLITICO / Sept. 8, 2021
Exclusive: FCC will study cost of landlords’ broadband deals
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios / Sept. 7, 2021
Facebook developing machine learning chip – The Information
Chavi Mehta / Reuters / Sept. 9, 2021
How hackers use our brains against us
Heidi Mitchell / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 7, 2021
Why hackers love smart buildings
Suman Bhattacharyya / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 8, 2021
The problem with ‘complex’ passwords
Karen Renaud / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 8, 2021
The latest cybersecurity threat: pay us or we release the data
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 7, 2021
A job offer that seems too good to be true? It may be a scam.
Heidi Mitchell / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 8, 2021
IBM asks for more time to respond to whistleblower’s false audit complaint involving IRS
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / Sept. 9, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
United Nations’ computers breached by hackers earlier this year
William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg / Sept. 9, 2021
Hackers breached U.N. computer networks earlier this year
Hamza Shaban / The Washington Post / Sept. 9, 2021
Russia influences hackers but stops short of directing them, report says
Julian E. Barnes / The New York Times / Sept. 9, 2021
Notorious Russian ransomware group ‘REvil’ has reappeared
William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg / Sept. 7, 2021
China slows down approval for new online games – SCMP
Anirudh Saligrama / Reuters / Sept. 9, 2021
Shanghai plans data exchange to help boost efficiency in manufacturing
Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh / Reuters / Sept. 9, 2021
A spyware app designed to monitor Kurdish targets attracted more than 1,400 downloads
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop / Sept. 8, 2021
ProtonMail said Swiss court order left no choice but to log activist’s IP address
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop / Sept. 7, 2021
Google’s voice assistant in new EU antitrust investigation, MLex reports
Foo Yun Chee and Nivedita Balu / Reuters / Sept. 9, 2021
Glitches still plague bitcoin rollout in El Salvador
Marcos Alemán / The Associated Press / Sept. 8, 2021
Disinformation / Misinformation
Election misinformation likely to hang over Iowa midterm
Clay Masters / Iowa Public Radio / Sept. 8, 2021
Americans may have thought the 2020 election was over. Yet the conspiracy theories are accelerating
The Washington Post / Sept. 7, 2021
In red California, Trump’s lies about a rigged election echo among recall supporters
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times / Sept. 6, 2021
From election to COVID, 9/11 conspiracies cast a long shadow
David Klepper / The Associated Press / Sept. 9, 2021
The Technology 202: Amazon enters Democrats’ crosshairs over Covid-19 misinformation
Cristiano Lima / The Washington Post / Sept. 9, 2021
Democrats slam Amazon for promoting false covid cures and anti-vaccine claims
Shannon Bond / NPR / Sept. 9, 2021
Pro-Beijing operatives used social media to try promoting NYC protest
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop / Sept. 8, 2021
Pro-China online network used fake accounts to urge Asian-Americans to attend protests, researchers say
Dustin Volz / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 8, 2021
Brazil’s President bans social networks from removing some posts
Jack Nicas / The New York Times / Sept. 9, 2021
Paid influencers must label posts as ads, German court rules
Emma Thomasson / Reuters / Sept. 9, 2021
Facebook slams UK antitrust watchdog over call to sell Giphy
The Associated Press / Sept. 8, 2021
Australian court rules media liable for Facebook comments
Rod McGuirk / The Associated Press / Sept. 8, 2021
Elections During and After the Pandemic
Special report: Terrorized U.S. election workers get little help from law enforcement
Linda So & Jason Szep / Reuters / Sept. 8, 2021
Election workers are under attack. A group of lawyers plans to defend them
Miles Parks / NPR / Sept. 8, 2021
Election officials need our legal help against repressive laws and personal threats
Bob Bauer and Benjamin L. Ginsberg / The Washington Post / Sept. 7, 2021
Report recommends slashing number of NYC Board of Elections Commissioners
Brigid Bergin / Gothamist New York Public Radio / Sept. 9, 2021
Franklin admits commission elections violate WA law by discriminating against Latinos
Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald / Sept. 8, 2021
SLO County Clerk-Recorder’s Office invites public to observe ballot-counting in transparency effort
Benjamin Purper / Central Coast Public Radio / Sept. 8, 2021
Republicans start election ‘investigation’ in Pennsylvania
Marc Levy / The Associated Press / Sept. 9, 2021
Michigan, Detroit seek $204K for fighting election lawsuit
The Associated Press / Sept. 9, 2021
Wisconsin election investigator demands state preserve data
Todd Richmond / The Associated Press / Sept. 9, 2021
Bipartisan group raises concerns with Wisconsin election investigations
Laurel White / Wisconsin Public Radio / Sept. 8, 2021
Louisiana fall elections postponed because of Hurricane Ida damage; see adjusted dates
Mark Ballard / The Advocate / Sept. 8, 2021
Texas Republicans plan expanded election audits
Reid Wilson / The Hill / Sept. 8, 2021
UC Berkeley group to study future of mobile voting
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Sept. 8, 2021
Trudeau criticized at debate for calling Canadian election
Rob Gillies / The Associated Press / Sept. 9, 2021
Moroccans elect new leaders in shadow of virus
Tarik El Barakah / The Associated Press / Sept. 8, 2021
How China has stacked the deck in Hong Kong elections
Jenni Marsh / Bloomberg / Sept. 7, 2021
Nicaragua is moving to arrest one of its leading artists in a pre-election crackdown
Carrie Kahn / NPR / Sept. 9, 2021