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The key to protecting the midterms is resilience for election systems, experts say

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With less than three weeks until the midterm elections, a lot of work has gone into preparing for the threat of election interference. But experts speaking at the CyberTalks conference on Thursday acknowledged that disaster could still strike, and that the officials who run U.S. elections have to be armed with proper resources and resilient systems. “We’re not seeing activity right now relating to direct election hacking. We’re not seeing anything right now along the lines of 2016, and that frankly makes me a little nervous,” said Homeland Security Undersecretary Chris Krebs. “So we’re working aggressively with our partners, the state and local [officials] to work through what an adversary could do with a two-and-a-half-week lead-up to the midterm elections.” U.S. intelligence officials have stressed over the past two years that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 election. Krebs said the hope is now to avoid a “failure of […]

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Will Democrats share all cyber threat intel with Donald Trump in 2020?

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Imagine this: Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign and, let’s say, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign working together closely on cyber threat and incident intelligence sharing. Every sensitive piece of information and forensics on hacking attempts passed between the two opposing organizations. Given what we know about the 2016 presidential campaign, the scenario seems like a longshot. However, it’s closer to reality than most would think. That scenario is one possible outcome of a newly launched project promoting an Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO) among U.S. political campaigns. The overall project, Defending Digital Democracy, launched in July at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. This month, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook and Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades announced the ISAO as the DDD’s first priority. In the wake of the most high-profile campaign hacking in American history, it’s a critical security point that’s received a lot of support. The specifics — including the possibility of […]

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