Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel

Over at Lawfare, Susan Hennessey has an excellent primer on how Trump loyalist Michael Ellis got to be the NSA General Counsel, over the objections of NSA Director Paul Nakasone, and what Biden can and should do about it. While important details remain unclear, media accounts include numerous...

Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud

Donald Trump has not yet conceded the presidential race, and may not any time soon. But there's no evidence whatsoever of a “stolen” election...

Can I Vote Online?

Election Day can be confusing, even if you're locked in on Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's what to know before you go to the polls...

Election Security: How Mobile Devices Are Shaping the Way We Work, Play and Vote

The line between our personal and professional lives is blurring in an unprecedented fashion as we approach the 2020 presidential election. From Oracle and Walmart’s plans to invest in TikTok to a bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app that exposed millions of voter files – the role mobile technology wi...

Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted in Cyberattack Leveraging Antivirus Lure, Dropbox Ploy

Hackers sent Joe Biden’s presidential campaign staffers malicious emails that impersonated anti-virus software company McAfee, and used a mix of legitimate services such as Dropbox to avoid detection. The emails were an attempt to steal staffers’ credentials and infect them with malware. The...

The Facebook Defectors Turning Trump’s Strategy Against Him

The platform was key to the president’s upset victory in 2016. Can a group of former employees use it to boost Joe Biden?...

Microsoft Warns of Cyberattacks on Trump, Biden Election Campaigns

The U.S. election campaigns of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been targeted in a slew of recent cyberattacks, Microsoft said on Thursday. With the U.S. presidential election a mere two months away, in recent weeks cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in it have ramped up...

Phishing Attacks against Trump and Biden Campaigns

Google's threat analysts have identified state-level attacks from China. I hope both campaigns are working under the assumption that everything they say and do will be dumped on the Internet before the election. That feels like the most likely outcome...

China and Iran Tried to Hack the Biden and Trump Campaigns

Plus: An iOS zero day, surveillance planes, and more of the week's top security news...

Trump, Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted By APT Phishing Emails

With the U.S. presidential election months away, advanced persistent threat APT groups are targeting the campaign staffers of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in recent phishing attacks. On Thursday, Shane Huntley with Google’s Threat Analysis Group said on Twitter that two separate phishing...

Minnesota Man Faces Prison for Hacking Neighbor's WiFi

Animosity between neighbors has landed a Minnesota man in serious legal trouble. Vincent Ardolf of Blaine, Minn., is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to hacking his neighbor's WiFi, distributing child pornography, and threatening the Vice President of the United States. Ardolf halte...

Biden-Threat Suspect Faces Long Jail Time

Barry Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, Minnesota, had rejected a plea deal in connection to charges accusing him of sending Vice President Joe Biden a threatening e-mail from his neighbor’s computer, a computer he is accused of hacking. A federal grand jury substantially upped the ante against the computer...

Hacker Charged Who Sent Threats to VP Biden

A hacker tried to frame his neighbor by tapping into his Wi-Fi and sending threatening emails to US vice president Joe Biden, according to search warrant affidavits unsealed recently. Read the full article. The Register...