Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
Sunburn: The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
Peter Scorsch / Florida Politics / July 15, 2020
Election Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity 202: DNC’s email voting plan limits hacking risk but can’t eliminate it
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / July 15, 2020
U.S. imposes sanctions on network for allegedly helping blacklisted Russian businessman
Mengqi Sun / The Wall Street Journal / July 15, 2020
The Electoral College is surprisingly vulnerable to popular vote changes
Steven Heilman / The Conversation / July 15, 2020
Time running out to protect US November elections
Cynthia Brumfield / CSO / July 15, 2020
Pompeo says he is ‘confident’ other countries will meddle in 2020 elections
Maggie Miller / The Hill / July 15, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Widespread Twitter hack reaches Bill Gates, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Barack Obama
Euirim Choi / The Wall Street Journal / July 15, 2020
Twitter blocks verified accounts from posting after hack hits high-profile users
Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times / July 15, 2020
Twitter accounts of prominent figures, including Biden, Musk and Obama, compromised in major hack
Julia Carrie Wong and Kari Paul / The Guardian / July 15, 2020
The CIA’s new license to cyberattack
Zach Dorfman / Axios / July 15, 2020
The case for a national cyber director
Micheal Daniel / CyberScoop / July 15, 2020
Trump administration reviews TikTok for national security risks
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg / July 15, 2020
TikTok enlists army of lobbyists as suspicions over China ties grow
Cecilia Kang / The New York Times / July 15, 2020
Banning TikTok is a human rights issue
Kevin Truong / VICE Media / July 15, 2020
US threatens sanctions against Huawei employees and business partners
Agence France-Presse / The Guardian / July 15, 2020
The Technology 202: Facebook says current privacy laws are ‘insufficient’
Cat Zakrzewski and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / July 15, 2020
The conservative alternative to Twitter wants to be a place for free speech for all. It turns out, rules still apply.
Rachel Lerman / The Washington Post / July 15, 2020
Inside the clubhouse: What’s all the fuss about Silicon Valley’s exclusive social media app?
Paul Vigna / The Wall Street Journal / July 15, 2020
New York Times to move part of Hong Kong office to Seoul in wake of security law
Anne Marie Roantree and Marius Zaharia / Reuters / July 14, 2020
Health Tech’s big moment squandered
Darius Tahir and Mohana Ravindranath / POLITICO / July 15, 2020
Can tech track the pandemic’s toll on first responders?
Alexandra S. Levine / POLITICO / July 15, 2020
Vanderbilt University joins higher education’s crusade to support online teaching
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / July 15, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
We could lose $30 billion in weeks from cyberwar. But the real loss is the erosion of public trust
Richard Buckland / The Conversation / July 15, 2020
UK to purge Huawei from 5G by end of 2027, siding with Trump over China
Paul Sandle and Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters / July 14, 2020
U.K. ban on Huawei prompts calls for tougher EU approach
Laurens Cerulus / POLITICO / July 15, 2020
Cyber Daily: Companies watch EU court for Data-Transfer ruling, SAP issues fix for severe vulnerability
The Wall Street Journal / July 15, 2020
TikTok slapped with fine in South Korea over mishandled user data
Coco Feng and Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post / July 15, 2020
Polish president fooled by Russian phone pranksters claiming to be UN secretary general
The Telegraph / July 15, 2020
Apple scores win in tax battle with EU
Ashley Gold / Axios / July 15, 2020
Google to invest $4.5 billion in India’s Jio
Kyle Daly / Axios / July 15, 2020
France creates first university intelligence chair and masters course on the dark arts of espionage
Henry Samuel / The Telegraph / July 15, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
Raphael Satter / Reuters / July 15, 2020
Fact check: Opinion piece misattributed to Charles Krauthammer
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 15, 2020
Fact check: Joe Biden does not own island in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuter / July 15, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Largest Wisconsin cities get $6 million for ‘Safe Voting Plan’
Nicolette White / Next City / July 15, 2020
Criticism continues over Massachusetts mail-in ballot applications
Sharman Sacchetti / WCVB 5 / July 15, 2020
COVID-19 forces 2 more polling locations to change in Worcester; Vote by mail an option
Nick Kotsopoulos / Telegram.com / July 15, 2020
Town clerks ready for expected influx of mail-in ballots
Nicole Defeudis / Lowell Sun / July 15, 2020
San Francisco’s big mail-ballot problem: Too many voters send them in late
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle / July 15, 2020
Scattered problems with mail-in ballots this year signal potential November challenges for Postal Service
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / The Washington Post / July 15, 2020
The Postal Service Is Steadily Getting Worse — Can It Handle a National Mail-In Election?
Ryan McCarthy and Maryam Jameel / Electionland / July 15, 2020
Election Day could turn into “Election Week” with rise in mail in ballots
Caitlyn Huey-Burns / CBS News / July 15, 2020
Court: absentee ballots that come after election won’t count
David Eggert / The Associated Press / July 15, 2020
2020 gives new meaning to ‘viral campaign’
Karl Rove / The Wall Street Journal / July 15, 2020
Virus spreads through Bolivia’s political elite; looms over election
Monica Machicao / Reuters / July 15, 2020