Elections

Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election ...

Election interference is now a global concern that will most likely require more international collaboration to combat ...

Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than ...

My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available for such purposes. Here’s a story from 2017 reporting that voter data for about 198 million ...

The Proud Boys emails aren't actual threats. They're the lowest form of anonymous spam ...

via Quanta Magazine, 'Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way' Permalink ...

In episode 96 of our monthly we discuss the controversy of voting by smartphone in our elections, the Jeff Bezos hacking incident, and the recent Microsoft support security breach. ** Show notes ...

via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news that no one in the State of Georgia wants to hear: At least one election server exhibits evidence of compromise - due ...

A simulation took place today in Washington, D.C., that showed how a cyberattack could impact Election Day without ever targeting voting machines. The simulation, which took place in a fictitious town named ...

Now we have the Senate Intel Committee’s report on how Russia sought to influence the 2016 elections, how it might do it again in 2020, and how we can stop it ...