Collaborate Disseminate
It’s found and banned thousands more automated Russian accounts, and it’s planning for detecting such accounts better in time for mid-terms. Continue reading Twitter will email 677,775 users who engaged with Russian election trolls
Mark Zuckerberg says the refresh will bring users more “meaningful social interactions” and less content from media and businesses. Continue reading Your Facebook News Feed is getting an overhaul
Mark Zuckerberg has set himself a doozy of a personal challenge for 2018 Continue reading Facebook needs fixing, says Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook says that Russia-backed posts reached 126 million Americans during the 2016 US election. Continue reading Facebook tool will reveal if you were fooled by Russian propaganda
Russia Today and Sputnik swear up and down they’re legitimate news sources. The FBI, and former employees, beg to differ.
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The nation’s top intelligence official will have to assess spy agencies’ response to Russian election meddling last year, devise a whole-of-government strategy for combatting similar effort in the future, if a Senate bill that advanced this week becomes law. The bill, S.1761, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, passed out of committee this week with a single vote dissenting. The bill in its current form would require a number of reports to Congress on a variety of issues regarding cybersecurity incidents targeting the federal government in the last year. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore, said in a statement he voted no, “over a provision that could set a troubling constitutional precedent” — by identifying Wikileaks and its senior leaders as “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors.” “My concern,” he said, “is that the use of the novel phrase ‘non-state hostile intelligence service’ may have legal, […]
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A former deputy director at the National Security Agency said that the idea of a joint U.S.-Russian cyber security unit is not as ridiculous as it sounds, as long as the U.S. side isn’t gullible enough to believe everything the Russians say. “I don’t think it’s absurd, but if you expect the Russians are going to deal with that transparently, and then we’ll get answers that you can take at face value, I think that’s naive,” former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis said in an interview. Inglis, who left the NSA in 2014, said it might be worth entertaining the idea of a joint unit just “to see how far they’re willing to go.” “What are you willing to put on the table, Russia? If you don’t ask, you’re not going to get,” Inglis said. “But we should hedge our bets. We should have very low expectations about what you […]
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A former deputy director at the National Security Agency said that the idea of a joint U.S.-Russian cyber security unit is not as ridiculous as it sounds, as long as the U.S. side isn’t gullible enough to believe everything the Russians say. “I don’t think it’s absurd, but if you expect the Russians are going to deal with that transparently, and then we’ll get answers that you can take at face value, I think that’s naive,” former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis said in an interview. Inglis, who left the NSA in 2014, said it might be worth entertaining the idea of a joint unit just “to see how far they’re willing to go.” “What are you willing to put on the table, Russia? If you don’t ask, you’re not going to get,” Inglis said. “But we should hedge our bets. We should have very low expectations about what you […]
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As the U.S. government takes early steps to roll out a collaborative cybersecurity framework designed to protect election systems, the pressure is now on state election officials and the Department of Homeland Security to hash out the details in less than two years. Over the weekend, DHS shared how the government plans to implement the designation of election systems as “critical infrastructure,” an important categorization announced during the Obama administration that effectively allocates additional resources and defenses to related systems. A rough draft of this strategy was described in a meeting with state election officials, the FBI and the Election Assistance Commission over the weekend. The plan has four objectives: information sharing, collaboration, threat and risk analysis, and ensuring that states have appropriately updated defense systems, according to Politico. Matthew Masterson, EAC Chair, said that the timeliness of DHS’s plan appeared to be the primary concerns for state election officials who […]
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Russia and the United States will create a bilateral working group to discuss the issue of election hacking, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks held between the two nations’ presidents in Hamburg, Germany, during the G20 meetings. Earlier during G20 events, President Donald Trump declined to say he believed Russia interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections despite conclusions drawn by several U.S. intelligence agencies including the NSA, CIA and FBI. On Friday, Lavrov said Trump accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that Russia did not meddle in U.S. elections. Immediately afterwards, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Trump and Putin agreed to work toward an agreement on non-interference in the politics of foreign nations. Trump and Putin see no value in “religitating the past,” Tillerson said, and will instead focus on the future of the U.S.-Russia relationship. That puts into doubt the idea that this working group will look at the […]
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