Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Ransomware continues to be election-security fear for local officials
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / July 27, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Pentagon planning for the next 25 years of cybersecurity
Billy Mitchell / FedScoop / July 27, 2020
CISA says 62,000 QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / July 27, 2020
Ransomware attack on Garmin thought to be the work of ‘Evil Corp’
Alex Hern / The Guardian / July 27, 2020
Pandemic was a test for states’ IT preparedness, says Alaska CIO
Colin Wood / StateScoop / July 27, 2020
Samsung primed for 5G foray as U.S., China brawl over Huawei
Elizabeth Koh / The Wall Street Journal / July 27, 2020
Twitter’s security woes include broad access to user accounts
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg / July 27, 2020
What to do about TikTok
Shira Ovide /The New York Times / July 27, 2020
Police requests for Google users’ location histories face new scrutiny
David Uberti / The Wall Street Journal / July 27, 2020
The spending details for the CISA, DoD, DOJ funding package
Tim Starks / POLITICO / July 27, 2020
Coronavirus crisis threatens internet opportunity for Native Americans
Avi-Asher Schapiro / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Trump administration petitions FCC on social media content rules
David Shepardson / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Silicon Valley CEOs in the spotlight Wednesday
Alexandra S. Levine / POLITICO / July 27, 2020
Zuckerberg on why Facebook should get to operate like a monopoly: Because China
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone / July 27, 2020
New app to help university students stay healthy on campus this fall
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / July 27, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
The Russian playboy hacker ‘demanding $10m from Garmin’
Hannah Boland / The Telegraph / July 27, 2020
EU effort to tax tech giants falters under pressure from U.S.
Melissa Heikkilä and Elisa Braun / POLITICO / July 27, 2020
Huawei’s 5G ambitions in Europe under a cloud after UK ban, EC report
Celia Chen / South China Morning Post / July 27, 2020
Huawei says now is the time to focus on 5G use cases and move beyond network rollout issues
Celia Chen / South China Morning Post / July 27, 2020
Tencent’s WeChat cuts off service in India amid the country’s ban on Chinese apps
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post / July 27, 2020
How a Chinese agent used LinkedIn’s ‘relentless’ algorithm to find targets
James Cook / The Telegraph / July 27, 2020
Powered by China, a technology benchmark opens in Hong Kong
Joanne Chiu / The Wall Street Journal / July 27, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Pivot to coronavirus: how meme factories are crafting public health messaging
Crystal Abidin / The Conversation / July 27, 2020
Misinformation vs. Disinformation
Bloomberg Business / Bloomberg / July 28, 2020
Twitter and Instagram face backlash, boycott after anti-Semitic posts by British rapper Wiley
Rick Noack / The Washington Post / July 27, 2020
Social media firms must do more to remove hateful content, says UK PM’s spokesman
Reuters / July 27, 2020
SOCOM looks to combat disinformation in Africa on governmentwide contract
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / July 27, 2020
Fact check: Photo of mail-in ballots is misleading, actually shows three absentee ballots for one household
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Fact check: Footage does show George Floyd’s tattoo during arrest
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Fact check: Fabricated quote by Hillary Clinton about Trump running for office
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Fact check: Joe Biden does not own island in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 27, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
RI election officials willing to suspend mail ballot election rules; GOP trying to block
Steph Machado / WPRI 12 Eyewitness News / July 27, 2020
Voters express concern over absentee flyer as state sees surge in mail ballot requests
Emily Featherston / WECT 6 News / July 27, 2020
Pender County board of elections opens new satellite office
WECT Staff / WECT 6 News / July 27, 2020
Blind voters, disability rights groups sue Texas over inaccessible mail-in ballot system
Tessa Weinberg / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / July 27, 2020
Texas governor extends early voting period for November
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / July 27, 2020
Technology Works Behind the Scenes to Keep US Mail-In Voting Secure
Michelle Quinn / Voice of America / July 27, 2020
[Video] States move to expand mail-in voting ahead of November election
CBS News / July 27, 2020
Virus prompts drop in new voter registrations in Virginia
The Associated Press / July 27, 2020
Democratic national convention to require masks, distancing
Scott Bauer / The Associated Press / July 27, 2020
Notre Dame withdraws as host of planned Trump-Biden debate
Ken Thomas / The Wall Street Journal / July 27, 2020
Voters Start Casting Ballots in about Eight Weeks
Jim Geraghty / The National Review / July 27, 2020
Wealthy donors pour millions into fight over mail-in voting
Brian Slodysko and Thomas Beaumont / The Associated Press / July 27, 2020
Trump, Biden build legal armies for electoral battlefield
John Kruzel / The Hill / July 27, 2020
Does the Voting Rights Act Have a 2nd Chance?
Alisa Chang / National Public Radio / July 27, 2020
How the pandemic changed the veepstakes
Ryan Lizza and Myah Ward / POLITICO / July 27, 2020