The U.S. state of Georgia’s election website experienced a “probing” cyber attack from a suspected nation-state threat actor, delaying absentee ballot requests.
The 2024 election season is facing an unprecedented challenge: AI-driven disinformation and cyberattacks. As AI’s influence grows, its ability to spread misinformation, create deepfakes, and target election systems becomes more dangerous.
CISA has released a new cybersecurity checklist as a primer for an expected uptick in hacking ahead of the 2024 presidential election, composed of just four pages of information that does not pack any surprises.
Major elections are being held around the world, and many with razor thin margins promise to be contentious, emotive and hard-fought. Proponents of particular candidates and parties are using active disinformation campaigns to spread lies, innuendos and misinformation, to promote their candidate and disincentivize their opponent’s supporters from voting.
In March, electoral data for 75% of the Maltese population was exposed in a data breach, including their polling booth, polling box numbers and voting preferences. Get insights on the power of voter data and the need for more care.
Israeli voter data was exposed by the country’s election management site that leaked admin credentials via an unprotected API endpoint in the homepage source code.
A haphazard technology roll-out of a new voting app led to tech issues that delayed the Iowa caucus results and threw the public into states of confusion and frustration.
Facebook’s ban of deepfake videos appears to be a focus on the wrong threat as the technology has not shown to be advanced or user-friendly enough to create damaging "fake news”.
With 2020 election drawing near, U.S. Cybercom, is developing information warfare tactics ranging from subtle warnings to more direct attacks on Russia’s information warfare capabilities.
Internet Society's Online Trust Alliance report shows only 30% of U.S. presidential candidates made the Honor Roll in audit which focused on three main areas – consumer privacy, website security and consumer protection.
