Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity

August 10, 2024 – August 16, 2024

Election Cybersecurity

FBI and CISA Reassure Public on Election Day Cybersecurity Amid Ransomware Concerns
Ashish Khaitan / Cyber Express / August 16, 2024

What You Can Expect Post the Donald Trump Campaign Attack
Defending Digital Campaigns / August 15, 2024

The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them
Maggie Miller / POLITICO / August 12, 2024

FBI probing alleged Iran hack attempts targeting Trump, Biden camps
Devlin Barrett et al. / The Washington Post / August 12, 2024

Experts warn of election disruptions after Trump says campaign was hacked
Abbie Cheeseman and Joseph Menn / The Washington Post / August 11, 2024

Cybersecurity / Technology

What AI is doing to campaigns (and isn’t)
Mohar Chatterjee / POLITICO / August 15, 2024

Hackers may have stolen every Americans’ Social Security number: Report
Rich Johnson / The Hill / August 15, 2024

Cyberattack puts Columbus residents’ data at risk
Alissa Widman Neese / Axios / August 16, 2024

Iranian-backed cyber group ramps up phishing against Israel, US targets: Google
Brad Dress / The Hill / August 14, 2024

Did hackers leak private photos? Mayor demands transparency
Martin Vassolo / Axios / August 14, 2024

Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / August 13, 2024

Classes across the country help seniors interact with a world altered by AI
Dan Merica / The Associated Press / August 13, 2024

The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here
Frederic Lardinois / Tech Crunch / August 13, 2024

Zero trust: How the ‘Jia Tan’ hack complicated open-source software
Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop / August 15, 2024

Ransomware on track for highest-grossing year
Sam Sabin / Axios / August 16, 2024

What We Learned From the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare
The Wall Street Journal / August 13, 2024

Cybersecurity / Technology — International

Russian spy agency hackers breach human rights groups, victims say
Joseph Menn / The Washington Post / August 14, 2024

UN approves its first treaty targeting cybercrime
Agence France-Presse / August 9, 2024

X closes operations in Brazil, blames judge’s ‘censorship’ orders
Jaclyn Peiser / The Washington Post / August 17, 2024

Disinformation / Misinformation

Elections Officials Battle a Deluge of Disinformation
Tiffany Hsu / The New York Times / August 12, 2024

OpenAI bans accounts linked to ‘covert Iranian influence operation’
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop / August 16, 2024

F.B.I. Resumes Flagging Foreign Disinformation to Social Media Giants
Steven Lee Myers / The Washington Post / August 15, 2024

Fake accounts on Meta pushed conservatives to run for office as independents
Naomi Nix / The Washington Post / August 15, 2024

Opinion – Why the disinformation brigade has utterly failed to weaken Trump
Megan McArdle / The Washington Post / August 15, 2024

FTC bans fake online reviews, testimonials
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill / August 14, 2024

Deepfakes are easy to make, but also easy to detect
Sam Sabin / Axios / August 12, 2024

Election News — U.S. National and Local

New report details how voting landscape has shifted in key states since 2020 election
Tierney Sneed / CNN / August 15, 2024

Bipartisan task force urges lawyers to defend America’s democracy and election integrity
Amna Nawaz and Ali Schmitz / PBS / August 13, 2024

Colorado – In Denver, a Model for Jail-Based Voting
Dana Guterman / The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation / August 14, 2024

Florida – Florida election officials warn of false rumor about ballot markings days before the state’s primary
Ali Swenson / The Associated Press / August 15, 2024

Kentucky – Data stolen in Jefferson County, Kentucky, cyberattack includes election info, employee reviews
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop / August 15, 2024

Michigan – Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and NMU students work together to increase UP voter engagement
Samuel McKnight / WZMQ 19 / August 15, 2024

South Dakota and Michigan – How South Dakota and Michigan took different paths to ‘election integrity’
Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch / August 15, 2024

Election News — International

Thailand’s new prime minister renews the legacy of her divisive father, Thaksin Shinawatra
Grant Peck / The Associated Press / August 16, 2024

India to hold first assembly elections in disputed Kashmir in 10 years
Aijaz Hussain / The Associated Press / August 16, 2024

Edited by Jung-hwa Kang, Compiled by Steven Vargas and Shelby Bolen