September 2018 - Nordic Innovation Labs

UN Accidentally Exposes Passwords and Sensitive Information

Sep 24, 2018 | News

THE UNITED NATIONS accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs. The mistakes made sensitive material...

Hack the Vote: How Safe Are Elections?

Sep 21, 2018 | Nordic in the News

In this episode, we watch hackers compromise voting machines and hear from technologists hoping to safeguard democracy with help from blockchain and mobile voting. Can tech protect our democratic process from foreign interference? Nordic members Harri Hursti and Ben...

Election security a ‘priority,’ DHS official tells states at Missouri summit

Sep 11, 2018 | News

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Monday kicked off the first day of hosting his counterparts from 11 states for a national summit on election security, an issue that one federal official called “a priority” before the midterms. The two-day event, in St....

I’m teaching email security to Democratic campaigns. It’s as bad as 2016.

Sep 4, 2018 | News

For the past eight months, I’ve been traveling the country in a sometimes quixotic attempt to train congressional campaigns about email security. On one recent trip, I asked a Democratic campaign manager how he was keeping track of his personal passwords. When he hung...

UN Accidentally Exposes Passwords and Sensitive Information

Hack the Vote: How Safe Are Elections?

Election security a ‘priority,’ DHS official tells states at Missouri summit

I’m teaching email security to Democratic campaigns. It’s as bad as 2016.

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