disinformation

Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that Mr. Trump won in a landslide, the entire ...

Over at Lawfare: “2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far).” What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals and analysts who ...

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a virtual hearing on the topic of Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories with an august panel of specialists well-steeped in how disinformation and misinformation are ...

Cybersecurity does not exist in a vacuum and current socio-economic pressures make the United States more vulnerable to cyberattacks of all kinds. With the U.S. presidential election underway, Americans need to take ...

Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale ...

Researchers discover pro-Russian narratives being spread via hacked news websites, aimed at attacking NATO ...

COVID-19 has been impacting the world for at least five months, and cybercriminals have not let up in their attempts to manipulate the crisis for their own gain. For example, in the ...

Focusing on security is a social responsibility every company should take to protect its consumers and its data, for the benefit of all In his annual letter on corporate governance, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink ...

As we sit here at the beginning of April, it is sometimes hard to remember that it was Nov. 17, 2019, when China discovered a virus emanating from a central fish and ...

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on ...