Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
USC in the News
Former Mich. gov. Rick Snyder calls for clerks to be on high alert for election security attacks
Fox 2 Detroit / Sept. 15, 2020
Election Cybersecurity
U.S. to announce on Wednesday charges in computer intrusion campaigns related to China
Reuters Staff / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology
Major ad fraud scheme targets premium publishers
Sara Fischer / Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
Hackers are getting more hands-on with their attacks. That’s not a good sign
Danny Palmer / ZDNet / Sept. 15, 2020
Ransomware attack hits Newhall schools, halting online classes
Andrew J. Campa / Los Angeles Times / Sept. 15, 2020
Dunkin’ Donuts parent settles New York cyberattack lawsuit, is fined
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
House approves bill to secure internet-connected federal devices against cyber threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Sept. 14, 2020
Oracle dodged the tech giant hot seat for years. The TikTok deal changes things.
Cristiano Lima / POLITICO / Sept. 15, 2020
Cyber Daily: TikTok moves to settle children’s privacy suit; Ireland pauses Facebook probe
The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 15, 2020
The Cybersecurity 202: Trump administration examining whether TikTok’s Oracle deal satisfies security concerns
Tonya Riley / The Washington Post / Sept. 15, 2020
Trump’s TikTok policy is just a new kind of ‘security theater’
Zachary Karabell / POLITICO / Sept. 15, 2020
Apple is starting a war over privacy with iOS 14 – publishers are naive if they think it will back down
Ana Isabel Domingos Canhoto / The Conversation / Sept. 15, 2020
Microsoft scores whole-of-government cloud contract with WA government
Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet / Sept. 15, 2020
A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?
Paul Haskell-Dowland and Brianna O’Shea / The Conversation / Sept. 15, 2020
Virginia technology officials say new organization is ‘extremely good’
Colin Wood / StateScoop / Sept. 14, 2020
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Two are accused of hacking U.S. websites with pro-Iran messages
Marie Fazio / The New York Times / Sept. 14, 2020
Chinese intelligence-linked hackers are exploiting known flaws to target Washington, US says
Shannon Vavra / Cyberscoop / Sept. 14, 2020
China backs new Vatican hacking, cyber firm recorded future says
John Follain / Bloomberg / Sept. 15, 2020
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott’s passport details and phone number obtained by hacker
Michael McGowan / The Guardian / Sept. 16, 2020
YouTube to launch TikTok-like short-form video feature in India after ban of Chinese app
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post / Sept. 15, 2020
Disinformation / Misinformation
How should we think about Russian disinformation?
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review / Sept. 15, 2020
Gen Z is eroding the power of misinformation
Stef W. Kight / Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
Barr floats foreign mail-vote fraud that experts call impossible
Ryan Teague Beckwith and Mark Niquette / Bloomberg / Sept. 15, 2020
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter
Isaac Stanley Becker / The Washington Post / Sept. 15, 2020
HHS official apologizes for Facebook video warning of plot against president
Stephanie Armour / The Wall Street Journal / Sept. 15, 2020
Twitter adds election information hub
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Facebook vows tougher climate change efforts but remains under fire over misinformation
Ben Geman / Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
Facebook ignored widespread political manipulation, claims whistleblower
Hasan Chowdhury / The Telegraph / Sept. 15, 2020
Wellness influencers are calling out QAnon conspiracy theorists for spreading lies
EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone / Sept. 15, 2020
Coronavirus and conspiracies: how the far right is exploiting the pandemic
Blyth Crawford / The Conversation / Sept. 15, 2020
The landscape of deepfake content is escalating so rapidly
Vivek Kumar / Analytics Insight / Sept. 15, 2020
Washington state lawmaker threatened reporter who wrote story about her sharing misinformation
John Bowden / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Kim Kardashian to freeze Facebook, Instagram accounts in #StopHateForProfit effort
Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
Fact check: Ad featuring Biden quote on tax raises misses context of remark
Reuters Staff / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
Fact-Check: Miscaptioned photo of Biden and Whitmer predates updated face-covering guidance
Reuters Staff / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
Elections During a Pandemic
Face masks, mail-in ballots among top concerns for Election Board heading into November
Aimee Ambrose / The Goshen News / Sept. 15, 2020
Siller, Island reps clash with Board of Elections
Ambrose Clancy / Shelter Island Reporter / Sept. 15, 2020
Pima Board of Supervisors supports Pascua Yaqui early voting site
Emma Gibson / Arizona Public Media / Sept. 15, 2020
Ohio to keep ballot-box limits for now after judge calls them ‘unreasonable’
Andy Sullivan / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
Wisconsin court rejects third party’s bid for new mail ballots, avoiding potential chaos
Joseph Ax / Reuters / Sept. 15, 2020
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin decided the 2016 election. We’ll have to wait on them in 2020.
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / Sept. 15, 2020
Is your state at risk of an election meltdown?
Gus Wezerek / The New York Times / Sept. 15, 2020
When will you know if Biden or Trump wins? It could depend on absentee ballot rules in these states
Arit John / Los Angeles Times / Sept. 15, 2020
Democrats more likely than Republicans to mail in ballots early: poll
Justine Coleman / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Cuts to USPS threaten voting access for hundreds of thousands of Americans in jails
Shawn Mulcahy / The Guardian / Sept. 15, 2020
The Electoral College Is Also A Climate Problem
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic / Sept. 15, 2020
Fox’s Napolitano: 2000 election will look like ‘child’s play’ compared to 2020 legal battles
Joe Concha / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Blind US voters sue over lack of accessible, mail-in ballots
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrah / Al Jazeera English / Sept. 15, 2020
Scoop: 400,000 people have already registered to vote in 2020 via Snapchat
Sara Fischer / Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
List: The companies that plan to give employees time off to work Election Day polls
Dan Primack / Axios / Sept. 15, 2020
Campaign aimed at ensuring military votes are counted launches ahead of Election Day
Julia Manchester / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Uber to launch in-app voter registration, discounted rides to polls ahead of Election Day
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Sept. 15, 2020
Bob Weir, Dave Matthews contribute to Global Citizen’s ‘Just Vote’ campaign
Claire Shaffer / Rolling Stone / Claire Shaffer
There’s an App That Lets You See the Voting History of Every One of Your Phone’s Contacts
Jenny Singer / Glamour / Sept. 15, 2020