On October 29th, 2020 with 162 comments
Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground...
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On October 26th, 2020 with 58 comments
A Georgia county has reverted to matching some absentee ballot signatures to paper backups, rather than an online system, after a ransomware infection spread...
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On September 28th, 2020 with 37 comments
A Texas company that sells software that cities and states use to display results on election night was hit by ransomware last week, the latest of nearly a...
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On September 24th, 2020 with 51 comments
Last week, voters and election administrators who emailed Leanne Jackson, the clerk of rural Hamilton County in central Texas, received bureaucratic-looking...
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On August 6th, 2020 with 163 comments
The US Department of State announced today rewards of up to $10 million for any information leading to the identification of any person who works with or for a...
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On June 10th, 2020 with 338 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: On Sunday, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan revealed...
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On June 9th, 2020 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email...
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On February 14th, 2020 with 145 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Nevada's Democratic Party said Thursday it plans to use iPads loaded with survey app Google Forms to calculate...
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On February 13th, 2020 with 38 comments
Academics from MIT's computer science laboratory have published a security audit today of Voatz, a mobile app used for online voting during the 2018 US midterm...
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On February 12th, 2020 with 165 comments
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order directing U.S. agencies to test the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure systems in...
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On February 10th, 2020 with 28 comments
A software flaw exposed the personal data of every eligible voter in Israel -- including full names, addresses and identity card numbers for 6.5 million people...
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On January 22nd, 2020 with 115 comments
A district encompassing Greater Seattle is set to become the first in which every voter can cast a ballot using a smartphone. NPR reports: The King...
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On January 16th, 2020 with 32 comments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will notify state officials when local election systems are believed to have been breached by hackers [the link may be...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 19 comments
Researchers at Valimail found that only 5% of the largest voting counties in the U.S. are protected against email impersonation and phishing attacks....
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