This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyNote to readers: The Cybersecurity 202 will only publish today, Wednesday and Thursday this week. We will return to our normal schedule next week.Top Republican groups threw their weight behind President Trump’s assault on voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic with a lawsuit challenging California’s expansion of the practice.But the groups, led by the Republican National Committee, are taking a far narrower approach than the president and steering clear of criticizing voting by mail as it will be...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyNote to readers: The Cybersecurity 202 will only publish today, Wednesday and Thursday this week. We will return to our normal schedule next week.Top Republican groups threw their weight behind President Trump’s assault on voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic with a lawsuit challenging California’s expansion of the practice.But the groups, led by the Republican National Committee, are taking a far narrower approach than the president and steering clear of criticizing voting by mail as it will be...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe White House has no plans to try to delay the Nov. 3 election, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, even as he defended a tweet from President Trump that raised the possibility.“We’re going to hold an election on November 3rd, and the president is going to win,” Meadows said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”Trump’s tweet on Thursday, which throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe White House has no plans to try to delay the Nov. 3 election, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, even as he defended a tweet from President Trump that raised the possibility.“We’re going to hold an election on November 3rd, and the president is going to win,” Meadows said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”Trump’s tweet on Thursday, which throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA bipartisan push to expand mail-in voting is underway across the country as election officials brace for a spike in demand from voters spooked by the coronavirus pandemic — despite Republican reluctance in Washington to help pay for it.House Democrats have asked for as much as $2 billion in emergency funding to distribute to election officials who are scrambling to expand absentee balloting and take other steps to avoid pandemic-related chaos on Election Day in November.Dozens of state and local election officials, both...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA bipartisan push to expand mail-in voting is underway across the country as election officials brace for a spike in demand from voters spooked by the coronavirus pandemic — despite Republican reluctance in Washington to help pay for it.House Democrats have asked for as much as $2 billion in emergency funding to distribute to election officials who are scrambling to expand absentee balloting and take other steps to avoid pandemic-related chaos on Election Day in November.Dozens of state and local election officials, both...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareHundreds of thousands of federal workers and congressional staff may soon be asked to work remotely full time as the coronavirus spreads, putting reams of sensitive government data at higher risk of hacking and threatening to overwhelm outdated government computer systems.The surge in telework will mark a first-of-its-kind test for the government, which has struggled to update and secure its arcane technology systems after a string of damaging data breaches during the Obama administration.[]If U.S. adversaries such as...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareHundreds of thousands of federal workers and congressional staff may soon be asked to work remotely full time as the coronavirus spreads, putting reams of sensitive government data at higher risk of hacking and threatening to overwhelm outdated government computer systems.The surge in telework will mark a first-of-its-kind test for the government, which has struggled to update and secure its arcane technology systems after a string of damaging data breaches during the Obama administration.[]If U.S. adversaries such as...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyA major Russian breach is prompting fears the government's cybersecurity protections have fallen dangerously behind. Lawmakers and experts are sounding alarms that billions of dollars' worth of custom-made government cybersecurity systems aren’t equipped to spot the most nefarious Russian hacker activity. And they’re warning the government is poorly organized to respond to such breaches once they come to light. “This really reinforced the need to double down on our cyber defensive...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyA major Russian breach is prompting fears the government's cybersecurity protections have fallen dangerously behind. Lawmakers and experts are sounding alarms that billions of dollars' worth of custom-made government cybersecurity systems aren’t equipped to spot the most nefarious Russian hacker activity. And they’re warning the government is poorly organized to respond to such breaches once they come to light. “This really reinforced the need to double down on our cyber defensive...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyChris Krebs’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump's campaign marks the most significant effort yet to hold the president and his allies accountable for their violent rhetoric and baseless attacks on the election’s outcome that have led to threats against dozens of election officials.Such threats – targeting everyone from Krebs to top state officials and frontline poll workers – have continued to even as the president's legal options to dispute the election . The former federal election security...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyChris Krebs’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump's campaign marks the most significant effort yet to hold the president and his allies accountable for their violent rhetoric and baseless attacks on the election’s outcome that have led to threats against dozens of election officials.Such threats – targeting everyone from Krebs to top state officials and frontline poll workers – have continued to even as the president's legal options to dispute the election . The former federal election security...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyThe Trump campaign’s latest effort to overturn the election results pits the allure of conspiracy theories against years of efforts to create the most secure and auditable election in U.S. history. Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell presented no evidence for their claims during a lengthy news conference that the election was rigged by faulty voting machines, foreign powers and an opaque cast of corrupt politicians. Officials who ran the election and are preparing to...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyThe Trump campaign’s latest effort to overturn the election results pits the allure of conspiracy theories against years of efforts to create the most secure and auditable election in U.S. history. Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell presented no evidence for their claims during a lengthy news conference that the election was rigged by faulty voting machines, foreign powers and an opaque cast of corrupt politicians. Officials who ran the election and are preparing to...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyFor election security advocates, watching President Trump’s unfounded claims about voting machines feels like bizarro world. —“We’d welcome attention from the top down on these issues, but it’s hard not to be cynical about this sudden interest,” Maggie MacAlpine told me. She's a co-founder of the Voting Village at the annual Def Con cybersecurity conference where ethical hackers expose vulnerabilities in voting equipment. AdvertisementTrump on Saturday an NBC News story about the Voting Village...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyFor election security advocates, watching President Trump’s unfounded claims about voting machines feels like bizarro world. —“We’d welcome attention from the top down on these issues, but it’s hard not to be cynical about this sudden interest,” Maggie MacAlpine told me. She's a co-founder of the Voting Village at the annual Def Con cybersecurity conference where ethical hackers expose vulnerabilities in voting equipment. AdvertisementTrump on Saturday an NBC News story about the Voting Village...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyThe federal government's top cybersecurity authority said there was no evidence of a major cyberattack on the U.S. elections. But without a result in the presidential race, there is still time for Russia, Iran or another adversary to interfere in the contest.If things continue as they are now, it would be a major victory for election security advocates and the Department of Homeland's Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that to upgrade state election security and worked...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Sharewith Tonya RileyThe federal government's top cybersecurity authority said there was no evidence of a major cyberattack on the U.S. elections. But without a result in the presidential race, there is still time for Russia, Iran or another adversary to interfere in the contest.If things continue as they are now, it would be a major victory for election security advocates and the Department of Homeland's Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that to upgrade state election security and worked...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division is mounting the largest operation to secure a U.S. election, aiming to prevent a repeat of Russia’s 2016 interference and to ward off new threats posed by Iran and China.On Election Day, DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will launch a 24/7 virtual war room, to which election officials across the nation can dial in at any time to share notes about suspicious activity and work together to respond. The agency will also pass along classified...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division is mounting the largest operation to secure a U.S. election, aiming to prevent a repeat of Russia’s 2016 interference and to ward off new threats posed by Iran and China.On Election Day, DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will launch a 24/7 virtual war room, to which election officials across the nation can dial in at any time to share notes about suspicious activity and work together to respond. The agency will also pass along classified...WW…