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Election is a legally governed process for choosing public officials or deciding a question through voting, with rules for registration, ballot creation, voting, counting, and certification. Its cybersecurity scope includes the digital systems supporting those stages—not only voting devices, but voter-registration databases, election-management systems, poll-worker accounts, result-reporting networks, and public information services.
Security priorities are preserving vote and result integrity, keeping essential services available, and protecting voter and worker information from unnecessary exposure. Material risks include unauthorized changes to ballot definitions or tallies, compromise of privileged accounts, disruption of reporting systems, and exploitation of software or network vulnerabilities. Defenses include least-privilege access, multifactor authentication, network separation, tested backups, vulnerability management, and paper records or other independent evidence that supports verification. Election security also requires documented procedures for detecting, containing, and correcting incidents without undermining lawful certification.
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In an educational game called "Capture the Narrative," students created bots to sway a fictional election, simulating influence in real-world political scenarios.
Researchers have tracked a Russian disinformation campaign against upcoming Moldovan elections, linking it to a previous campaign that began in 2022.
While 34 countries worldwide already use some form of e-voting, the Philippines can serve as a model for what a secure online voting operation looks like.
The president revoked the former CISA director's security clearance, half a decade after Krebs challenged right-wing election disinformation, prompting his eventual resignation.
State and federal security experts weighed in on the impact that budgetary and personnel cuts to CISA will have on election security as a whole.
President Trump has long complained about perceived threats to election security. Now his DHS has kneecapped the agencies designed to support it. Experts are worried about what comes next.
The staffers were tasked with building relationships on the ground across the country in local election jurisdictions, teaching election officials tactics on mitigating cyber threats, cyber hygiene, combating misinformation and foreign influence, and more.
A Dark Reading poll reveals widespread concern over disinformation about election integrity and voter fraud, even as Russia steps up deepfake attacks meant to sow distrust in the voting process among the electorate.
Operation Overload pushes dressed up Russian state propaganda with the aim of flooding the US with election disinformation.
Organizations should be on high alert until next month's US presidential election to ensure the integrity of the voting process, researchers warn.
The successful disruption of notorious Russian hacker group Star Blizzard's operations arrives one month out from the US presidential election — one of the APT's prime targets.
While these threats remain a valid concern, US government agencies have doubled down on their assurances to the American public that election infrastructure is secure.
While the 2024 election may see various cyber threats, existing security measures and coordination across all levels of government aim to minimize their impact.
The FBI and CISA are warning citizens of attempts to convince voters that US election infrastructure has been compromised. (It hasn't been.)
Researchers flagged a pair of Gallup polling site XSS vulnerabilities that could have allowed malicious actors to execute arbitrary code, access sensitive data, or take over a victim account.
Working with the Treasury and Justice departments, the president has sanctioned anti-democratic Russian adversaries.
The ElectionGuard project allows anyone — voters, campaign staffers, and election officials — to cryptographically verify ballots, a promise which may bolster faith in election integrity.
When it comes to this year's candidates and political campaigns fending off major cyberattacks, a lot has changed since the 2016 election cycle.
With the presidential election this year and increase in cyberattacks and conflict around the world, MITRE has outlined four important areas the incoming presidential administration should focus on next year.
Securing the presidential election requires vigilance and hardened cybersecurity defenses.