Articles Related to Election Cybersecurity
The Experts Corner
Rich platforms, poor democracy
Marie Harf / USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative / Oct. 7, 2021
USC in the News
New England officials convene with academics to talk election cybersecurity
Sten Spinella / The Day / Oct. 7, 2021
Election Cybersecurity
Macomb County hiring contractor to look at election machine
The Associated Press / Oct. 5, 2021
Peters praises accuracy of Dominion voting machines
Charles Ashby / The Daily Sentinel / Oct. 7, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology
Russian hackers haven’t backed off, administration official acknowledges
Aaron Schaffer / The Washington Post / Oct. 6, 2021
Google blames suspected Russian hacking group for targeting 14,000 Gmail users
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop / Oct. 7, 2021
CIA creates working group on China as threats keep rising
Nomaan Merchant / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
TSA to impose cybersecurity mandates on major rail and subway systems
Ellen Nakashima / The Washington Post / Oct. 6, 2021
TSA to issue regulations to secure rail, aviation groups against cyber threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 6, 2021
Emergent ransomware gang FIN12 strikes hospitals, moves quickly against big targets
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / Oct. 7, 2021
Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog
Gareth Corfield / The Register / Oct. 5, 2021
Hackers demand ransom from Johnson Memorial Health
Jennie Runevitch / WTHR / Oct. 5, 2021
NSA director expects to be facing ransomware attacks ‘every single day’ in five years
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 5, 2021
US poised to sue contractors who don’t report cyber breaches
Eric Tucker / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Lawmakers advocate for establishment of standalone House and Senate cyber panels
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 6, 2021
Lawmakers introduce bill to identify and protect critical groups from cyber threats
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 5, 2021
Arizona launches command center to combat cyberattacks
The Associated Press / Oct. 4, 2021
Audit: Cybersecurity weak for many Kansas school districts
The Associated Press / Oct. 5, 2021
Truckee outlines response to July cybersecurity attack
The Associated Press / Oct. 5, 2021
A ‘potentially disastrous’ data breach hits Twitch, the livestreaming site.
Kellen Browning / The New York Times / Oct. 6, 2021
The Twitch hack is worse for streamers than for twitch
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Vice News / Oct. 6, 2021
Enter the ‘splinternet’: How competing visions for the internet could shape cyberspace
WBUR / Oct. 4, 2021
Key takeaways from Facebook’s whistle-blower hearing
Sheera Frenkel / The New York Times / Oct. 5, 2021
I designed algorithms at Facebook. Here’s how to regulate them.
Roddy Lindsay / The New York Times / Oct. 6, 2021
Facebook exec: We do not prioritize engagement over safety
Barbara Ortutay / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Why Facebook and Instagram went down for hours on Monday
Jonathan Franklin and Bill Chappell / NPR / Oct. 5, 2021
Facebook blames networking issues, not a cyberattack, for long downtime
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop / Oct. 5, 2021
Facebook’s apps went down. The world saw how much it runs on them.
Raymond Zhong and Adam Satariano / The New York Times / Oct. 5, 2021
More than social media: The WhatsApp outage affected small businesses worldwide
NPR All Things Considered / Oct. 6, 2021
Instagram and teens: How to keep your kids safe
Barbara Ortutay and Amanda Seitz / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Snapchat is adding a feature to help young users run for political office
Juana Summers / NPR Morning Edition / Oct. 5, 2021
Cybersecurity / Technology — International
International coalition arrests ‘prolific’ hackers involved in ransomware attacks
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 4, 2021
Suspected Chinese hackers masqueraded as Indian government to send COVID-19 phishing emails
Tim Starks / CyberScoop / Oct. 5, 2021
Rachel Pannett / The Washington Post / Oct. 5, 2021
Bbritian to carry out ‘offensive’ cyber attacks from new 5bn digital warfare centre
Edward Malnick / The Telegraph / Oct. 2, 2021
Spies used Android malware to try collecting intelligence from a Togolese activist, Amnesty says
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop / Oct. 6, 2021
Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of detected state-backed hacks
Frank Bajak / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Russian-speaking hacking group scaling up ransomware attacks on hospitals
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Oct. 7, 2021
Russian court orders bailiffs to enforce fine on Facebook
The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Sheikh set Israeli spyware on ex-wife in custody battle, court says
Megan Specia and Ben Hubbard / The New York Times / Oct. 6, 2021
Australia wants Facebook held liable for anonymous comments
Rod McGuirk / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Disinformation / Misinformation
Trump continues to lie, says ‘real insurrection’ happened when he lost election
Alana Wise / NPR / Oct. 6, 2021
Trump loses effort to keep suit over YouTube ban in Florida
Erik Larson / Bloomberg / Oct. 7, 2021
Legislator leaves panel leadership over false COVID claims
Kathy McCormack / The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
Ron Johnson takes 2 covid conspiracy theories from fever swamps to Fox News prime time
Aaron Blake / The Washington Post / Oct. 5, 2021
NAACP calls for meeting with Zuckerberg after hate speech revelations on Facebook
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill / Oct. 6, 2021
Google, Youtube to demonetize climate denial content
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill / Oct. 7, 2021
Elections During and After the Pandemic
Youngkin continues call for ‘audit’ of election machines in Virginia
Zach Montellaro / POLITICO / Oct. 5, 2021
Watch live: Arizona officials testify before House panel on election audit
The Hill / Oct. 7, 2021
Cyber Ninjas CEO declines to testify before Congress about Arizona election audit
Ben Giles / KJZZ / Oct. 6, 2021
New Hampshire showed how to audit an election properly
Sarah Salem / The Washington Post / Oct. 5, 2021
Scott County Auditor hosts three community presentations for new voting rules
Samson Kimani / KWQC / Oct. 6, 2021
County hears election fraud concern
Vickie Moss / The Iola Register / Oct. 6, 2021
Group pushing 2020 election recount reaches Omaha
Brian Mastre / WOWT / Oct. 6, 2021
Wisconsin’s largest cities targeted in 2020 election probe
Scott Bauer / The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
Patrick Marley and Natalie Eilbert / Green Bay Press Gazette / Oct. 6, 2021
Why Democrats see 3 Governor’s races as a sea wall for fair elections
Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti / The New York Times / Oct. 6, 2021
Texas legislation would allow partisan actors to request election audits
Andrew Schneider and Paul Debenedetto / NPR Houston Public Media / Oct. 6, 2021
Renewed Texas GOP efforts to target voter fraud could be more ‘performance’ than substance
Jill Ament and Caroline Covington / Texas Standard / Oct. 6, 2021
N.J. poll workers get a pay raise in hopes of getting more people to sign up
P. Kenneth Burns / WHYY / Oct. 6, 2021
Ballot blunders: How to fix the NYC Board of Elections
Courtney Gross / Spectrum News 1 / Oct. 6, 2021
Voters, advocates ask to stand with PA against election investigation
Chris Ullery / The Intelligencer / Oct. 6, 2021
Experts fear Pa. senators’ statements, unsupported by evidence, in 2020 election ‘audit’
Jonathan Lai and Andrew Seidman / The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Oct. 6, 2021
Court: McCrory backers can be sued for defaming 2016 voters
Bryan Anderson / The Associated Press / Oct. 5, 2021
Report details Trump’s all-out bid to undo election results
Mary Clare Jalonick / The Associated Press / Oct. 7, 2021
Pandora Papers a worry for Czech PM Babis ahead of election
Karel Janicek / The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
Poland’s top court rules its constitution trumps some E.U. Laws
Andrew Higgins and Monika Pronczuk / The New York Times / Oct. 7, 2021
Rome mayor loses re-election bid, a defeat for Five Star Movement
Elisabetta Povoledo / The New York Times / Oct. 4, 2021
Philippine dictator son’s presidential run triggers protests
Aaron Favila and Jim Gomez / The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
Spokesman says Libya lawmakers reschedule parliament vote
The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
In Iraqi elections, guns and money still dominate politics
Jane Arraf / The New York Times / Oct. 7, 2021
Sunday’s vote in Iraq clouded by a disillusioned electorate
Samya Kullab / The Associated Press / Oct. 6, 2021
Edited by Jung-hwa Kang, Compiled by Carina Robles and Jillian Kwong