Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
November 16, 2024 – November 22, 2024
USC in the News
Election Cybersecurity Initiative trains civic leaders to safeguard voting
Nicholas Corral / Daily Trojan / November 1, 2024
Election Cybersecurity
What Trump’s Second Term Could Mean for the Top U.S. Cyber Agency
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/what-trumps-second-term-could-mean-for-the-top-us-cyber-agency/fd6deee7-8079-40e5-8ce4-f743d26f887a?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
The Wall Street Journal / November 19, 2024
Cybersecurity / Technology
400,000 Systems Potentially Exposed to 2023’s Most Exploited Flaws
https://www.securityweek.com/400000-systems-potentially-exposed-to-2023s-most-exploited-flaws/
Ionut Arghire / Security Week / November 22, 2024
Microsoft moves to prevent another CrowdStrike outage
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/microsoft-ignite-windows-resiliency-initiative
Sam Sabin / Axios / November 19, 2024
US Takes Down Stolen Credit Card Marketplace PopeyeTools
https://www.securityweek.com/us-takes-down-stolen-credit-card-marketplace-popeyetools/
Ionut Arghire / Security Week / November 22, 2024
Companies aren’t prepared for AI-powered bot attacks
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/ai-cyberattacks-bots-arkose-labs-survey
Sam Sabin / Axios / November 19, 2024
Meta cracks down on millions of accounts it tied to pig-butchering scams
https://cyberscoop.com/meta-cracks-down-on-millions-of-accounts-it-tied-to-pig-butchering-scams/
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / November 21, 2024
U.S. charges five men in Scattered Spider hacking operations
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/scattered-spider-us-arrests
Sam Sabin / Axios / November 20, 2024
Stop & Shop Races to Restock Shelves After ‘Cybersecurity Issue’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-shop-races-to-restock-shelves-after-cybersecurity-issue-ba45accb?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
Liz Young / The Wall Street Journal / November 21, 2024
America’s News Influencers
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/11/18/americas-news-influencers/
Galen Stocking et al. / Pew Research Center / November 18, 2024
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
https://apnews.com/article/influencers-election-trump-harris-news-eacd42bce73d6e11cbc760caf28c993a
Haleluya Hadero / The Associated Press / November 18, 2024
Army Cyber making moves to improve readiness
https://defensescoop.com/2024/11/21/army-cyber-arcyber-making-moves-improve-readiness/
Mark Pomerleau / Defense Scoop / November 21, 2024
Cybersecurity / Technology – International
Russian Cyberespionage Group Hit 60 Victims in Asia, Europe
https://www.securityweek.com/russian-cyberespionage-group-hit-60-victims-in-asia-europe/
Ionut Arghire / Security Week / November 22, 2024
America’s Rivals Have a New Favorite Weapon: Criminal Gangs
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas-rivals-have-a-new-favorite-weapon-criminal-gangs-3c12a35f?mod=Searchresults_pos9&page=1
Sune Engel Rasmussen and Daniel Michaels / The Wall street Journal / November 22, 2024
Financial Software Firm Finastra Investigating Data Breach
https://www.securityweek.com/financial-software-firm-finastra-investigating-data-breach/
Ionut Arghire / Security Week / November 21, 2024
UK regulator says Apple, Google blocking innovation in mobile browsers
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5005542-uk-regulator-says-apple-google-block-mobile-browser-innovation/
Miranda Nazzaro and Julia Shapero / The Hill / November 22, 2024
Disinformation / Misinformation
Election claims by NC Senate leader are false and could stoke violence, elections chief warns
https://www.wral.com/story/election-claims-by-nc-senate-leader-are-false-and-could-stoke-violence-elections-chief-warns/21733828/
Will Doran / WRAL / November 21, 2024
Oregon election officials clear up confusion they caused about ballot counting
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/11/oregon-election-officials-clear-up-confusion-they-caused-about-ballot-counting.html
Aviva Bechky / The Oregonian/OregonLive / November 21, 2024
Election News — U.S. National and Local
New study shows voting for Native Americans is harder than ever
https://apnews.com/article/native-american-voting-barriers-study-brennan-center-afa35fd2b82b9ef545cd8290dadc16e6
Graham Lee Brewer / The Associated Press / November 21, 2024
Arizona – Arizona Prepares for Meticulous Election Recounts Under New Procedures Announced by Secretary of State
https://hoodline.com/2024/11/arizona-prepares-for-meticulous-election-recounts-under-new-procedures-announced-by-secretary-of-state/
Kim Tran / HoodLine / November 21, 2024
Idaho – An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone’s Ballots to Combat Mistrust
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/us/ballots-election-boise-idaho.html
Mike Baker / The New York Times / November 23, 2024
Minnesota – Election judges continue hand recount for Minnesota State House race
https://www.kaaltv.com/news/election-judges-continue-hand-recount-for-minnesota-state-house-race/
KAALTV / November 21, 2024
Election News — International
Polish prime minister’s party picks Warsaw mayor as its candidate for president
https://apnews.com/article/poland-president-election-trzaskowski-9a4c180e86589a11a3cfeda2341172b3
Vanessa Gera / The Associated Press / November 23, 2024
Tusk’s party holds primary to pick Polish presidential candidate for election in 2025
https://apnews.com/article/poland-presidential-election-sikorski-tusk-4be24bbfce9db89e0077f837124765d0
Warsaw and Poland / The Associated Press / November 22, 2024
Upcoming Cybersecurity Events
Are Fair Elections Possible In The Age Of AI?
RMIT University / December 4, 2024
Cyber AI & Automation Summit
SecurityWeek / December 4, 2024
Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2025
Google / December 10, 2024
Edited by Jung-hwa Kang, Compiled by Steven Vargas and Shelby Bolen