Election security a ‘priority,’ DHS official tells states at Missouri summit
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.
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...
Wireless Infusion Pumps Could Increase Cybersecurity Vulnerability
Wirelessly connecting infusion pumps to point-of-care medication systems and EHRs improves healthcare delivery but also increases cybersecurity vulnerability, warned NIST and the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in a new guide. If not properly...
DEFCON 2018: Voting Hacks Prompt Push Back from Election Officials, Vendors
DEFCON 26, building on its work in hacking ballot machines last year, saw three days of probing into various aspects of the end-to-end voting infrastructure in place in the U.S., including a voter registration database and election reporting websites. Several...
670 ballots for 276 voters? Georgia election security in question
Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May. But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 percent turnout. The discrepancy,...
Healthcare cybersecurity is in a rut, and hackers keep swinging
Tied down by staffing and budget issues, while the industry is still debating the best way to fix healthcare’s security woes, hackers are only getting smarter and continuing to shell the industry in full force. The number of breached patient records has declined from...
States struggling to protect 2020 election
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...
Russian Hackers Again Targeted The Most Vulnerable Part Of U.S. Elections: Campaigns.
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...
How the Russians penetrated Illinois election computers
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...
States slow to prepare for hacking threats
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...