In this month's update on U.S. election hacking, state-sponsored efforts fail, New Jersey goes all mail-in ballots
As we approach the November general U.S. elections, things are heating up, with both candidates now making actual campaign appearances. We have also seen an increase in cyberattacks and other threats to our elections. This includes efforts to hack into campaign staff’s accounts by foreign governments, physical threats during these campaign stops, and changes to how votes will be recorded.
Douglas Jones, a computer science professor who has studied various election hacking efforts, recently wrote an update for The Conversation here, providing new details about the extent of these hacks.
We've written several previous blog posts about the state of elections security. In March, we began our series on tech and the vote, followed by this post on the Iowa and LA primary voting issues. We also wrote about some of the more recent election-related developments from speakers at the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences in August.
Let’s review the latest in election interference news. First up is a report from Microsoft, who has discovered a series of unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both presidential campaigns. That blog post describes efforts from state-sponsored groups from Russia, China and Iran on various campaign staffers and networks. The attacks include credential harvesting and malware-laced copycat websites to track key campaign staffers. Microsoft has witn ..
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