Collaborate Disseminate
Several Democratic House candidates with scientific backgrounds won against Republican incumbents on Tuesday. Continue reading For the First Time Since 2010, People Who Accept Climate Change Control the House Science Committee
In 2006, Ben Adida wrote a 254-page PhD dissertation on “cryptographic voting systems.” Now, he wants to fix America’s broken voting machines. Continue reading This MIT PhD Wants to Replace America’s Broken Voting Machines with Open Source Software, Chromebooks, and iPads
The Georgia governor hopeful is attacking the run-of-the-mill security research that keeps the internet safe. Continue reading Brian Kemp Is Weaponizing Good Cybersecurity in an Authoritarian Ploy Against Democrats
Concerns over midterm election tampering reach a boiling point in the days leading up to actual voting. Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Tom Kellermann on Hacking the Midterm Elections
Over 1m tweets show that we’re suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders. Continue reading Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale. Continue reading 35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web
The social network will crack down on those spreading disinformation in an effort to keep people away from the polls. Continue reading Facebook Expands Efforts to Squash Voter Suppression
A fake login page turned out to be a test phishing attack from the Michigan Democratic Party, which hadn’t told the DNC or the ISP about it. Continue reading DNC ‘spearphishing attack’ was actually a test
The DNC thwarts a phishing effort aimed at its voter database, days after Microsoft’s Fancy Bear disruption and Facebook’s efforts against Iranian propaganda. Continue reading DNC Becomes Latest Target in Series of Election-Season Attacks
It took him less than 10 minutes to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website. Continue reading 11-year-old hacker changes election results