Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Colorado official details plans for penetration testing of election systems
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / July 28, 2020
Last Chance to Secure the 2020 Elections
Tim Lau / Brennan Center for Justice / July 27, 2020
The Cybersecurity 202: Democrats push for more transparency about Russian election interference
Joseph Marks and Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / July 28, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
GOP stimulus bill includes $53 million for DHS cyber agency to protect vaccine research
Maggie Miller / The Hill / July 28, 2020
Cyber Daily: Fund administrator for Fortress, Pimco and others suffers data breach through vendor; 5G winners and losers
The Wall Street Journal / July 28, 2020
The Garmin Ransomware Hack Is Horrifying
Kevin Truong / VICE / July 28, 2020
Burglars expose Walgreens customer data in a different kind of breach
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / July 27, 2020
Ex-Twitter Workers Win US Case Dismissal Over Saudi Hacks
Clare Roth and Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg / July 28, 2020
Exclusive: Texas AG probing Facebook over biometric data
Ashley Gold / Axios / July 28, 2020
Tech defenders, critics line up shots ahead of hearing
Ashley Gold / Axios / July 28, 2020
Big Tech to appear before Congress on Wednesday
Ryan Tracy et al. / The Wall Street Journal / July 28, 2020
Facebook, Amazon CEOs to defend their companies before U.S. Congress by listing competitors
David Shepardson and Nandita Bose / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Scoop: Facebook boycotters lobby lawmakers on antitrust
Sara Fischer / Axios / July 27, 2020
Tech liability fight comes back into focus
Ashley Gold / Axios / July 28, 2020
U.S. Congress pushing Homeland Security for details on protest surveillance
Mark Hosenball / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Special Report: Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters / July 28, 2020
U.S. Republicans worry China might use TikTok to meddle in election
Alexandra Alper / Reuters / July 28, 2020
The modern dilemma of TikTok journalism
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review / July 28, 2020
New VPN flaws highlight proven pathways for hackers into industrial organizations
Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / July 28, 2020
Liz Weston: Can you trust your mobile payment app?
Liz Weston / The Associated Press / July 27, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic sparked modernization, future growth in states
StateScoop / July 28, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
North Korean hackers are stepping up their ransomware game, Kaspersky finds
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / July 28, 2020
The Vatican Is Said To Be Hacked From China Before Talks With Beijing
David E. Sanger et al. / The New York Times / July 28, 2020
WhatsApp confirms Catalan politician’s phone was target of 2019 attack
Stephani Kirchgaessner / The Guardian / July 28, 2020
The UK’s cybersecurity agency is getting a new boss
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / July 28, 2020
Huawei to double down on HSBC as legal battle over extradition of Meng Wanzhou intensifies
Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post / July 28, 2020
Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India’s schools go online
Roli Srivastava / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Tencent grabs Facebook’s social media crown with rally that adds US$207 billion to market value this year
Deb Price / South China Morning Post / July 28, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Pandemic
Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger / The New York Times / July 28, 2020
Zuckerberg: Facebook has ‘more to do’ on fighting disinformation
Betsy Woodruff Swan / POLITICO / July 28, 2020
Social media giants pull viral video shared by Trump with false coronavirus claims
Marina Pitofsky / The Hill / July 28, 2020
Twitter temporarily restricts Donald Trump Jr.’s account over COVID-19 video
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Fauci defends himself, urges masks after Trump deletes video
Susan Heavey et al. / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Fact check: Trump did not say the government was fighting “an ancient sex trafficking ring”
Reuters Fact Check Team / Reuters / July 28, 2020
Australian police warn Chinese students of ‘virtual kidnap’ scam
Stefica Nicol Bikes / Reuters / July 27, 2020
SOCOM looks to combat disinformation in Africa on new governmentwide contract
Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop / July 27, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Hadley’s senior center to become town’s new polling station
Scott Merzbach / Daily Hampshire Gazette / July 27, 2020
More Kansans voting early or by mail amid virus outbreak
Andy Tsubasa Field / The Associated Press / July 27, 2020
Kansas voters can’t be turned away from polls for not wearing a mask, Schwab says
Jonathan Shorman / The Wichita Eagle / July 17, 2020
As COVID-19 cases increase, most Americans support ‘no excuse’ absentee voting
Vianney Gomez and Bradley Jones / Pew / July 20, 2020
Exclusive: Senate Democrats want the USPS to explain how it’s going to handle vote-by-mail in November
Li Zhou / Vox / July 17, 2020
Somalia sees internet blackout after prime minister
Abdi Guled / The Associated Press / July 27, 2020