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Election Officials Face Security Challenges Before Midterms

08

Jul

2022

The nation’s top state election officials gathered Thursday for the start of their annual summer conference, with a long list of challenges that begins with securing their voting systems. While a top concern heading into the 2020 presidential election was Russia or another hostile nation waging a disruptive cyberattack, the landscape has expanded to include […]

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Study finds election officials vulnerable to cyberattacks

27

Jul

2020

Election administrators across the country are vulnerable to cyberattacks that originate through malicious phishing emails, a report released Monday found. The report, compiled by cybersecurity group Area 1 Security, found that over 50 percent of election administrators have “only rudimentary or non-standard technologies” to protect against malicious emails from cyber criminals, with less than 30 […]

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Pennsylvania to test new election security measures

18

Oct

2019

Pennsylvania will launch a pilot of an election security audit in Philadelphia and Mercer County after the November elections, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced this week. The risk-limiting audit is designed to check the accuracy of election outcomes. It will use security measures new to the state and much of the country, according to […]

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