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Hackers, trolls and the fight over your vote in the 2018 midterm elections | Cyber Security
It’s not as intense as in 2016, as far as we know. But there are plenty of indications that the hacking and social media manipulation techniques used…
Social media influence campaigns undermine elections | Cyber Security
Online propaganda organized by nation-state actors like Russia, China and Iran is part of the reason sites like Twitter and Facebook suddenly…
How the dark web could hurt the midterm elections | Cyber Security
The dark web isn’t a place, it’s a network. Like the normal internet we use every day, the dark web is loaded with websites, wikis, e-commerce…
US intelligence officials reportedly say sources in Russia have gone quiet ahead of the midterm…
caption The Kremlin is pictured above in Moscow on March 7, 2017. source Spencer Platt/Getty Sources in the Kremlin and close to Russian…
Former Facebook security chief warns ‘it’s too late to protect 2018 elections’ | Cyber Security
Alex Stamos, the former security chief at Facebook, says the US “risks allowing its elections to become the World Cup of information warfare.”…
36 states are using this hacking detection sensor to protect the midterm elections | Cyber Security
Voting booths. (GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images) GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images The US is beefing up voter system security in preparation for the…
Using common social media tactics to subvert US elections | Computing
This Nov. 1, 2017, file photo shows some of the Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up…
Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the 2018 elections | Social
like the one that hit it in 2016. The social network says it’s moving quickly on its plan — which includes a physical war room to monitor the…
Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the 2018 elections
Facebook has a plan to protect the 2018 U.S. midterm elections from an election disasterlike the one that hit it in 2016. The social network says…