Elections
Streaming Traffic Peaks on Election Night
Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than ...
Old Story: Leaked Voter Records
My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available for such purposes. Here’s a story from 2017 reporting that voter data for about 198 million ...
“Proud Boys” Emails Are Bogus
The Proud Boys emails aren't actual threats. They're the lowest form of anonymous spam ...
Professor Rivest On Election Security
via Quanta Magazine, 'Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way' Permalink ...
Voting by Smartphone, Jeff Bezos Hacked, Microsoft Security Breach
In episode 96 of our monthly we discuss the controversy of voting by smartphone in our elections, the Jeff Bezos hacking incident, and the recent Microsoft support security breach. ** Show notes ...
State of Georgia: Election Server May Have Been Compromised During 2016, 2018 Elections
via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news that no one in the State of Georgia wants to hear: At least one election server exhibits evidence of compromise - due ...
Simulation Shows Elections’ Soft Security Underbelly
A simulation took place today in Washington, D.C., that showed how a cyberattack could impact Election Day without ever targeting voting machines. The simulation, which took place in a fictitious town named ...
After Mueller, Senate Intel Reports on Russian Election Hacks
Now we have the Senate Intel Committee’s report on how Russia sought to influence the 2016 elections, how it might do it again in 2020, and how we can stop it ...
Election Security: Back-to-Basics Approach Best Bet
Any conversation about the security of our digital future inevitably involves the subject of election security. Whether it’s an attempt to mitigate the risk of foreign adversaries using misinformation to influence national ...
Political campaign security
Maciej Cegłowski has published a long, practical, insightful, and witty article on his experiences with political campaign security. He wisely focuses on a handful of steps to narrow the attack surface with ...
