ES&S, the top producer of voting machines used in the United States, has said that it will stop selling outdated paperless voting machines that are known to be vulnerable to cyberattacks. In …
Election Security Is Still Hurting at Every Level
A new study by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center concludes that election security in the United States is still far from where it needs to be in order to rule out efforts at tampering in the 2020 …
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NATO Warns Russia of ‘Full Range’ of Responses to Cyberattack
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday warned adversaries that the alliance "can and will use the full range of capabilities at our disposal" to respond to cyberattacks. This week, elections for the …
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US Officials Say Foreign Election Hacking Is Inevitable
The US intelligence officials on Wednesday warned that election hacking by foreign threat actors as an inevitability that needs to be accepted, while the real focus of the government's defensive …
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Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
Even though the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has bolstered its cyber security since Russian state-backed hackers infiltrated the organization in 2016, its security hygiene still doesn't cover …
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At nations’ request, U.S. Cyber Command probes foreign networks to hunt election security threats
Ever since US cyber security experts succeeded in thwarting Russian attempts at election meddling during the 2018 midterm elections by taking a Russian troll farm offline, the Department of Defense's …
Microsoft Debuts ElectionGuard to Secure Voting Processes
In order to help countries secure their democratic elections, Microsoft has released an open source software development kit (SDK) designed to secure existing modern voting systems by providing …
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2020 Campaign Staffers Being Trained to Handle Cyber Threats
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reaching out to the campaigns of presidential candidates for 2020 in an attempt to help them protect themselves against interference campaigns by …
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2020 U.S. Presidential Candidates Vulnerable to Email Attacks
New research by Agari indicates that the vast majority of Republican and Democrat candidates for the 2020 US presidential election are putting themselves at risk of email attacks by not taking the …
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FBI suspects Russians hacked ‘at least one’ Florida county, Mueller report says
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election states that the FBI believes the Russian military intelligence agency (GRU) "gained access …