Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative–Michigan Workshop
Campus Connection / Sept. 9, 2020
As election nears, cybersecurity initiative pivots to voter education and access
Emily Gersema / ScienceBlog / Sept. 14, 2020
Election Cybersecurity
Six Steps to a Safe, Trusted Election in November
Emily Frye et al. / MITRE / Sept. 2020
Ohio invites ethical hackers to target its election systems
Phil Goldstein / StateTech Magazine / Sept. 14, 2020
Russia is back, wilier than ever — and it’s not alone
Mark Scott / POLITICO / Sept. 14, 2020
Does questioning U.S. vote benefit Russia?
Karl Maier / Bloomberg / Sept. 14, 2020
Trump team’s China focus distracts from Russian election meddling
Chris Strohm and Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg / Sept. 14, 2020
Defending the 2020 election against hacking: 5 questions answered
Douglas W. Jones / The Conversation / Sept. 14, 2020
A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
Zach Whittaker / Tech Crunch / Sept. 14, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Magento online stores hacked in largest campaign to date
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet / Sept. 14, 2020
Schools remain ‘easy target’ for ransomware as Maze targets big K-12 systems
Benjamin Freed / StateScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
House approves bill to secure internet-connected federal devices against cyber threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Sept. 14, 2020
Security researchers slam Voatz brief to the Supreme Court on anti-hacking law
Sean Lyngaas / WorkScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
TikTok’s fresh swirl of uncertainty
Ina Fried and Kyle Daly / Axios / Sept. 14, 2002
Oracle deal with TikTok to undergo U.S. national security review
Aaron Tilley / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 14, 2020
US citizen charged with running diamond Ponzi scheme, cryptocurrency scam
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet / Sept. 14, 2020
The misguided antitrust attack on Big Tech
Phil Gramm and Jerry Ellig / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 14, 2020
Trucking firms grapple with cybersecurity amid new regulation and risks
Catherine Stupp / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 14, 2020
IBM’s new mantra: Resist ‘data sovereignty’
Sabrina Rodriguez and Doug Palmer / POLITICO / Sept. 14, 2020
Previewing the annual CISA cyber summit
Tim Starks / POLITICO / Sept. 14, 2020
Factbox: Where do Trump and Biden stand on tech policy issues?
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters / Sept. 14, 2020
To break monotony of remote learning, Rutgers built virtual worlds
Betsy Foresman / EdScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
AR and VR can transform government work beyond the pandemic — if done right
WorkScoop Staff / WorkScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Chinese firm harvests social media posts, data of prominent Americans and military
Gerry Shih / The Washington Post / Sept. 14, 2020
Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians
Bruce Baer Arnold / The Conversation / Sept. 14, 2020
How an Australian cybersecurity firm helped decipher Zhenhua Data leak
Daniel Hurst / The Guardian / Sept. 14, 2020
Disney, Google, Microsoft back trans rights amid fierce British debate
Rachel Savage / Reuters / Sept. 14, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
U.S. voting officials scramble in wake of ‘misleading’ USPS mailer
Andy Sullivan / Reuters / Sept. 14, 2020
With the election campaign underway, can the law protect voters from fake news and conspiracy theories?
Alexander Gillespie / The Conversation / Sept. 14, 2020
‘This is f—ing crazy’: Florida Latinos swamped by wild conspiracy theories
Sabrina Rodriguez and Marc Caputo / Reuters / Sept. 14, 2020
Facebook is failing in global disinformation fight, says former worker
Sheera Frenkel / The New York Times / Sept. 14, 2020
Demons of the deep state: how evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump’s America
S Jonathon O’Donnell / The Conversation / Sept. 14, 2020
Fact check: Antifa and Proud Boys not in custody for starting fires in Medford, Oregon
Reuters Staff / Reuters / Sept. 14, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
County Election Boards Applying to Charity to Pay for Elections
Susan Arbetter / Spectrum News / Sept. 14, 2020
Counties feeling strain from cost of added requests for mail-in absentee ballots
Richard Essex / WishTV.com 8 / Sept. 14, 2020
LaPorte County rejects candidate’s claims of voter suppression
Bob Kasarda and Dan Carden / The Times of Northwest Indiana / Sept. 14, 2020
Federal judge temporarily blocks Postal Service from sending election mailer to more voters in Colorado
Elise Viebeck / The Washington Post / Sept. 14, 2020
Wisconsin’s top court rules against reprinting of ballots, avoiding election chaos
Stephanie Saul and Nick Corasaniti / The New York Times / Sept. 14, 2020
Massachusetts town clerk resigns after delays to primary vote count
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Sept. 14, 2020
Ohio plan to include postage on absentee ballots rejected by GOP panelists
Associated Press / Los Angeles Times / Sept. 14, 2020
How we prepared for the 2020 election during a pandemic
Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Paul Pate / StateScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
The Media’s Role in Calling an Election
Dorey Scheimer and Meghna Chakrabarti / WBUR / Sept. 14, 2020
The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic / Sept. 14, 2020
Mismatched signatures prompt tossed absentee ballots and legal fights ahead of November election
Jeremy Herb et al. / CNN / Sept. 14, 2020
Is the Mail Getting Slower? We’re Tracking It
Emily Badger et al. / The New York Times / Sept. 14, 2020
Down-ballot Dems split from Biden on door-knocking
Holly Otterbein and Alex Thompson / POLITICO / Sept. 14, 2020