Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
Behind the ratings rise at ‘CBS Evening News’
Kelby Clark / Viacom CBS / July 14, 2020
Election Cybersecurity
EXCLUSIVE: Pandemic stalling election security fixes
Mark Albert / WXII 12 / July 14, 2020
Op-Ed: How you can fight Russia’s plans to troll Americans during Campaign 2020
Marek N. Posard et al. / Los Angeles Times / July 14, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
IL Auditor General Finds Cybersecurity Measures Inadequate at IDES
Benjamin Cox / WLDS News / July 13, 2020
U.S. pushes homegrown drone industry amid China battle
Ina Fried / Axios / July 14, 2020
SigRed: A 17-year-old ‘wormable’ vulnerability for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / July 14, 2020
Ransomware warning: Now attacks are stealing data as well as encrypting it
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / July 14, 2020
For the VA, “horizon scanning” means finding better cybersecurity tech
Jackson Barnett / FedScoop / July 14, 2020
Taking steps to break down systemic racism in cybersecurity
Camille Stewart and Lauren Zabierek / CyberScoop / July 14, 2020
Five lessons state technology officials took from telework
Colin Wood / StateScoop / July 14, 2020
Cyber Daily: Tensions ratchet up as U.S. weighs response to China’s security moves, just $25 buys a phishing kit
The Wall Street Journal / July 14, 2020
Tiktok’s massive data harvesting prompts U.S. security concerns
Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg / July 14, 2020
Searching for video? Google pushes YouTube over rivals
Sam Schechner et al. / The Wall Street Journal / July 14, 2020
Massachusetts Senate passes bill that would halt police use of facial recognition
Jared Council / The Wall Street Journal / July 14, 2020
Google announces certificates, scholarships to support workforce
Jake Williams / EdScoop / July 14, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
The Cybersecurity 202: U.K. is set to bar Huawei in a major U.S. victory
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / July 14, 2020
Huawei decision ‘may delay 5G by three years and cost UK £7bn’
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian / July 14, 2020
Canada faces new pressure to block Huawei from 5G, after UK ban risks marooning Ottawa from Five Eyes intelligence allies
Ian Young / South China Morning Post / July 15, 2020
Catalan politician says Spain would be complicit in a crime if phone-hacking proven
Joan Faus et al. / Reuters / July 14, 2020
TikTok, bracing for scrutiny in Australia, seeks to reassure lawmakers
Liza Lin / The Wall Street Journal / July 14, 2020
EU court to rule on Apple’s €13B Irish tax bill
Alexandra S. Levine / POLITICO / July 14, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Project Origin is watermarking media to fight fake news ahead of the election
Sara Fischer / Axios / July 14, 2020
How Facebook handles climate disinformation
Veronica Penney / The New York Times / July 14, 2020
How to fight health “cures” online
Shira Ovide / The New York Times / July 14, 2020
Fact check: Arkansas judge did not write racist memo
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 14, 2020
Newsroom or PAC? Liberal group muddies online information wars
Alex Thompson / POLITICO / July 14, 2020
EU Commission seeks input to tackling fake news, ensuring fair polls
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters / July 14, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Milwaukee offering hazard pay to poll workers in upcoming elections
WISN 12 News / July 14, 2020
Pandemic curbs Maine’s in-person primary election turnout, but many already voted absentee
Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News / July 14, 2020
Applications for Vote By Mail pouring into Will County Clerk’s Office
Rex Robinson / The Times Weekly / July 14, 2020
Texas heads to the polls for Senate runoff as coronavirus rages
The Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / July 14, 2020
Coronavirus creates election worker shortages in Wichita area
The Associated Press / July 14, 2020
A Perfect Storm: A Surging Virus And An Election Meltdown
Betsy Kaplan / Connecticut Public Radio / July 14, 2020
What It’s Been Like to Vote in 2020 So Far
Evan Nicole Brown / The New York Times / July 14, 2020
Fact check: Mailing ballots to dead people not leading to voter fraud, experts and studies say
McKenzie Sadeghi / USA Today / July 14, 2020
Gallup poll: Many young Americans unsure how to register, vote by mail
Clyde Hughes / UPI / July 14, 2020
Postal Service memos detail ‘difficult’ changes, including slower mail delivery
Jacob Bogage / The Washington Post / July 14, 2020
North Macedonia votes on July 15. Here’s what you need to know.
Mary Stegmaier and Martin Okolikj / The Washington Post / July 14, 2020