Jul 30, 2018 | News
President Donald Trump on Friday promised an intense, “whole-of-government” focus on securing the nation’s elections from cyberattacks — but a POLITICO survey of states finds ample reasons to worry about both this year’s midterms and the 2020 election. Only 14 states...
Jul 28, 2018 | News
by MILES PARKS on July 28, 2018 When Russian hackers targeted the staff of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., they took aim at maybe the most vulnerable sector of U.S. elections: campaigns. McCaskill’s Senate staff received fake emails, as first reported by The Daily...
Jul 19, 2018 | News
by CHUCK GOUDIE on July 17, 2018 The twelve Russians charged with hacking into Illinois’ election database may have worked as intelligence agents, but the I-Team has learned it didn’t take above-average computer intelligence to pull off the heist. Russian...
Jul 18, 2018 | News
by ERIC GELLER on July 18, 2018 U.S. intelligence officials and security experts have spent years urging states to shore up their elections’ digital defenses, and the latest indictments from special counsel Robert Mueller drew fresh attention to Russia’s cyberattacks...
Jul 17, 2018 | News
by KIM ZETTER on July 17, 2018 The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the...
