Daily Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
Election Cybersecurity
Last-minute tweaks to voting machine standards raise cyber fears
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg / Feb. 9, 2021
‘Reckless and stupid’: Security world feuds over how to ban wireless gear in voting machines
Eric Geller / POLITICO / Feb. 9, 2021
Google expands election security aid for federal, state campaigns
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Feb. 9, 2021
Election commission approves new guidelines to secure, update voting equipment
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Feb. 10, 2021
New cyber panel chair zeros in on election security, SolarWinds hack
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Feb. 10, 2021
Federal election agency adopts updated voting security standards. Not everyone is happy.
Tim Starks and Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop / Feb. 10, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology
Eric Schmidt: US’s flawed approach to 5G threatens its digital future
Eric Schmidt / Financial Times / Feb 8, 2021
Stolen Chatham county data posted online after cyber incident, includes personnel files, other sensitive documents
Bill Horner III et al. / Chatham News & Record / Feb. 9, 2021
The most serious security risk facing the United States
Jonathan Tepperman / The New York Times / Feb. 9, 2021
How to stop handing our cybersecurity keys to hackers
Christopher Krebs / The Hill / Feb. 10, 2021
Krebs, other officials urge Congress to take strong action to tamp down cyber threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Feb. 10, 2021
National Security Council’s Neuberger leads hacking response
Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg / Feb. 10, 2021
Senators ask federal officials to designate leader in ‘disorganized’ SolarWinds response
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Feb. 9, 2021
Does the U.S. need a Cyberdefense Czar?
Kara Swisher / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
Federal political committees, campaigns lost $2.7M to theft, fraud in last cycle: report
Zack Budryk / The Hill / Feb. 11, 2021
Biden administration pauses Trump’s plans to ban WeChat, TikTok
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / Feb. 11, 2021
Proofpoint sues Facebook over dummy sites used for anti-phishing training
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Feb. 11, 2021
Microsoft urges U.S. to make tech giants pay for news
Mike Cherney / The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 11, 2021
Food-delivery fraudsters deploy hacked accounts, stolen credit card info to skim from orders
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / Feb. 11, 2021
Qualcomm CEO elect says Huawei ban may help with chip shortages
Ian King / Bloomberg / Feb. 11, 2021
NASA sends AI to space with first commercial edge computing system
Jackson Barnett / FedScoop / Feb. 11, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
Digital siege: Internet cuts become favored tool of regimes
Kelvin Chan / The Associated Press / Feb. 11, 2021
Pro-India hacking group expands mobile malware arsenal
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop / Feb. 11, 2021
Cyberattacks helping North Korea fund nuclear weapons and missiles, UN panel says
Zack Budryk / The Hill / Feb. 9, 2021
U.N. experts point finger at North Korea for $281 million cyber theft, KuCoin likely victim
Michelle Nichols and Raphael Satter / Reuters / Feb. 9, 2021
Makers of Cyberpunk 2077 game hit by ransomware hack
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Feb. 9, 2021
After troubled Cyberpunk 2077 roll-out, CD Projekt hit by cyber attack
Anna Pruchnicka / Reuters / Feb. 9, 2021
Sim-swapping: UK police arrest eight over attacks on celebrities
The Guardian / Feb. 9, 2021
Fears over DNA privacy as 23andMe plans to go public in deal with Richard Branson
Kari Paul / The Guardian / Feb. 9, 2021
Tencent Executive Held by China Over Links to Corruption Case
The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 10, 2021
Clubhouse users in China say service appears to be blocked
Manuel Baigorri and Coco Liu / Bloomberg / Feb. 11, 2021
Israeli Cybersecurity Firm CYE raises $100 million for expansion
Yaacov Benmeleh / Bloomberg / Feb. 10, 2021
Hackers targeted financial sector in mass extortion campaign
James Rundle / The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 9, 2021
Disinformation / Misinformation
In Second Impeachment, misinformation spreads at lower intensity
Davey Alba / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
Fox tells judge election fraud remarks were free speech
Nick Turner and Erik Larson / Bloomberg / Feb. 9, 2021
Fox News asks for Smartmatic lawsuit over election-rigging claims to be dismissed
Shubham Kalia / Reuters / Feb. 8, 2021
How right-wing radio stoked anger before the Capitol siege
Michael Grynbaum et al. / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
How lies and algorithms fueled the U.S. Capitol insurrection
Bloomberg / Feb. 9, 2021
Michigan Senate majority leader is caught on hot mic claiming that Capitol riot was a hoax.
Trip Gabriel / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
How to quiet the megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter
Barak Richman and Francis Fukuyama / The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 11, 2021
The economic case for regulating social media
Robert Frank / The New York Times / Feb. 11, 2021
Facebook reports no coordinated disinformation tied to Capitol riot
Alexandra S. Levine / POLITICO / Feb. 10, 2021
Facebook to test ways to ‘reduce’ political content
Rebecca Klar / The Hill / Feb. 10, 2021
Facebook dials down the politics for users
Kevin Roose and Mike Isaac / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
Twitter suspends Project Veritas account
Anna Kambhampaty / POLITICO / Feb. 11, 2021
Instagram bans Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over Covid-19 vaccine misinformation
Sebastian Herrera / The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 11, 2021
Obama calls for Americans to get vaccinated in tweet addressing misinformation
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill / Feb. 9, 2021
Experts say vaccine misinformation crackdown is coming too late
Margaret Harding McGill and Sara Fischer / Axios / Feb. 9, 2021
Fact check: 2019 general election campaign pledges are NOT evidence pandemic was planned
Reuters / Feb. 9, 2021
Fact check: The COVID-19 vaccine is not an operating system designed to program humans
Reuters / Feb. 9, 2021
Fact check: Claim that Biden will defund the Department of Veterans Affairs was intended as satire
Reuters / Feb. 8, 2021
English soccer heads call on Zuckerberg, Dorsey to address racism on their platforms
Lexi Lonas / The Hill / Feb. 11, 2021
Elections During a Pandemic
Senate pushes backup plan in election fight with county
Bob Christie / The Associated Press / Feb. 11, 2021
Republicans legislators order audit of Wisconsin election
The Associated Press / Feb. 11, 2021
North Dakota House votes to cut early voting period
Zack Budryk / The Hill / Feb. 9, 2021
Georgia GOP seeks to tighten voting rules after spate of losses
Max Greenwood / The Hill / Feb. 11, 2021
Georgia prosecutors probe efforts to influence 2020 election
Alexa Corse and Cameron McWhirter / The Wall Street Journal / Feb. 10, 2021
Georgia prosecutors open criminal inquiry into Trump’s efforts to subvert election
Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim / The New York Times / Feb. 10, 2021
What a rebuke from Ocasio-Cortez taught Andrew Yang about the mayor’s race
Katie Glueck / The New York Times / Feb. 11, 2021
Pandemic puts Catalan independence on backseat in Sunday’s election
Joan Faus / Reuters / Feb. 11, 2021