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The Election Threats That Keep US Intelligence Up at Night
Government officials have increasingly sounded alarms on the risks of foreign interference and disinformation campaigns leading up to—and after—November 3...
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled the 2016 campaign...
Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next
On July 15, a massive Twitter hack rocked the inside and out. On Election Day, that's not an option...
Gen Z Has a Plan to Save the Election—Starting With the Polls
Poll workers, who skew elderly, are in short supply during the pandemic. Meet some of the young people trying to make up the gap...
How We’ll Know the Election Wasn’t Rigged
Whether you’re casting a ballot in person or by mail, there’s plenty to worry about. Mass voter fraud shouldn’t be on the list...
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s...
Stacey Abrams on How We’ll Beat Back Voter Suppression
The former Democratic candidate for Georgia governor talks democracy, election tech, and why speaking Klingon doesn’t always help. As told to Gilad Edelman...
Lock and Code S1Ep15: Safely using Google Chrome Extensions with Pieter Arntz
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher for Malwarebytes, about Google Chrome extensions. These sometimes helpful online tools that work directly...
The informed voter’s guide to election cyberthreats
Singapore held its most recent general election on July 10 2020, and although they used the electoral system called first-past-the-post FPTP, a scheme favored by the US, UK, and most English-speaking countries, the road leading to Election Day was not without challenges and obstacles. While all...
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...
Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Are Hitting US Campaign Targets Again
Microsoft says the GRU hacking group has attacked hundreds of organizations over the past year, many of them tied to the upcoming election...
Threat Source newsletter for Sept. 10, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. In our continued research on election security, we have a new video roundtable discussion up on our YouTube page. In this Q&A-style format, I ask our researchers questions about the work they’ve done researching disinformation aka...
CISA Insights: Email-Based Attacks on Elections-Related Entities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released CISA Insights: Actions to Counter Email-Based Attacks on Elections-Related Entities in light of increased sophisticated phishing operations targeting individuals and groups involved in the upcoming U.S. elections. CISA strongl...
The U.S. Secret Service Selects Tom Kellermann to Serve on Inaugural Cyber Investigations Advisory Board
Cybersecurity has become a recurring global news headline. From ransomware to data breaches, cyberattacks continue to be one of the biggest threats to both the private and public sectors. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400 percent increase in cybercrime1. And for the public sector, this is...
Roundtable video: Disinformation and election security
By Jon Munshaw. In our continued coverage of election security, we decided to sit down with four Talos and Cisco researchers to discuss disinformation. As we outlined in our recent research paper, disinformation is one of the cornerstones of threat actors' efforts to disrupt the American election...
Peter Strzok Has a Warning About Russia—and Trump
In an interview with WIRED and in his new book, the former FBI agent details the threats the US faces as the 2020 election looms...
Will WhatsApp’s Misinfo Cure Work for Facebook Messenger?
To protect the election, the platform will limit message forwarding to five people at a time...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says He's Got Election Stuff Under Control
Facebook rolls out its plan to protect the US from November mayhem...