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. Read More
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. Read More
ESS, largest voting systems company in U.S with at least 260,000 machines in 21 states, was found to have 35 election systems in 10 states connected to the internet when they were not supposed to be. Read More
With lessons learned from 2016 U.S. presidential election, U.S. government officials are taking no chances in upcoming election security by pushing stricter measures to secure online information from cyber attacks. Read More
Recent DEFCON Voting Village report showed that some of the most popular and widely used voting machines vulnerable to hacking and that their security in the upcoming election is anything but assured. Read More
Fear of Russian hackers infiltrating voting machines in the last U.S. presidential election has led to a new bill to enlist hackers to find vulnerabilities. Read More
Big data in politics has become big news in the United Kingdom as the Guardian newspaper reports that the vote for the UK to leave the European Union saw two international companies manipulating public opinion through the use of big data mining techniques. Read More
Privacy issues in the Philippines have become headline news as 2017 gets underway. In January, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) in that country issued a statement placing the blame for a data breach that put the personal information of millions of voters at risk squarely at the feet of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and its Chairman Andres Bautista. Read More
