March 04, 2020

Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers

It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.

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October 01, 2019

Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That's how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon's Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.

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July 29, 2019

Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election, Senate report says

The Senate Intelligence Committee doesn't know what Moscow's intentions are, but Robert Mueller says they're still at it.

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June 10, 2019

Laptops used in 2016 NC poll to be examined by feds – after 2.5 years

The e-voting vendor in North Carolina was spearphished days before the election but still went ahead and used remote access software.

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April 12, 2019

Feds say Russian 2016 election meddling spanned all US states

A multi-agency report has strengthened claims that Russia meddled with election systems in all 50 US states during the last presidential race.

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February 28, 2019

US pushed Russian troll factory offline during US midterm elections

The US blocked internet access to Russian trolls who, they say, were trying to spread FUD.

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October 18, 2018

Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms

Over 1m tweets show that we're suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.

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September 19, 2018

How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking

The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from "hackers and foreign adversaries".

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