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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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Expert speakers discussed the impact of reported cutbacks to CISA on the ability of local officials to protect against surging cyber-attacks on US election infrastructure
The US government has sanctioned Russian state-affiliated entity CGE, which used a vast GenAI infrastructure to spread disinformation during the US Presidential election
The European Commission is investigating whether TikTok allowed foreign actors to influence voters during recent Romanian elections
Cǎlin Georgescu went from polling around 1% a month before the Romanian presidential election to winning the first round
Romania’s national security council suggested that Russia is behind these attacks, amid a court order for a recount of votes in the first round of the country’s presidential election
A joint US government advisory warned about increasing foreign influence efforts designed to undermine the legitimacy of the Presidential Election
US government agencies said the video, widely shared on social media, is part of Russia’s broader strategy of undermining the integrity of the Presidential Election
Cyber threats surge ahead of the 2024 election, including phishing, ransomware and Darknet activity
Iran is targeting the US presidential race, China the congressional races, and Russia both
As the US presidential election draws near, polling company Gallup acts to block XSS vulnerability
The DoJ says Russia paid a US company $10m to post disinformation that attracted millions of views online
FCC charges Lingo Telecom with $1m fine over voice deepfake during the 2024 New Hampshire primary election
The FBI and CISA said ransomware on local networks may cause delays but won't impact voting system integrity
Microsoft claims Iran is ramping up election interference activity in the US, as Trump campaign claims it was hacked
CISA Director Jen Easterly expressed strong confidence in the integrity of US election, despite ongoing cybersecurity threats to democratic processes
Proofpoint highlighted how smishing, impersonation and spam are eroding trust in mobile messaging
Governments should “police the content rather than the technology used to create it,” Matthew Feeney from the Centre for Policy Studies argued in a new paper
Resecurity reported a 300% spike in cyber-attacks post-#OpIsrael, intensifying since #OpIndia last year
The National Cyber Security Centre launches an opt-in Personal Internet Protection service to safeguard individuals from cyber threats during the upcoming election
Meta’s moderation failings could allow coordinated disinformation campaigns to thrive in the run-up to the EU election