On Wednesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before Congress in the latest high profile hearings for tech on Capitol Hill. The main event will take place at 9:30 a.m. ET, as the pair of tech execs faces the defense and cybersecurity-minded Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Following that hearing, Dorsey […]
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Facebook and Microsoft briefed state officials on election security efforts today
So much for summer Fridays. Yesterday, BuzzFeed reported that a dozen tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, would meet at Twitter headquarters on Friday to discuss election security. For two of them, that wasn’t the only meeting in the books. In what appears to be a separate event on Friday, Facebook and Microsoft […]
View More Facebook and Microsoft briefed state officials on election security efforts todayGoogle releases a searchable database of US political ads
In an effort to provide more transparency and deliver on a promise to Congress, Google just published an archive of political ads that have run on its platform. Google’s new database, which it calls the Ad Library, is searchable through a dedicated launch page. Anyone can search for and filter ads, viewing them by candidate […]
View More Google releases a searchable database of US political adsCloudflare recruits state and local governments for free election site security program
After launching a free program to protect election systems last December, Cloudflare has an update on how things are going. The program, known as the Athenian Project, provides Cloudflare’s services for free to state and local government websites that administer elections, host voter registration or verification data or report election results. Those services include the […]
View More Cloudflare recruits state and local governments for free election site security program12 Russians indicted for DNC hack, officially placing foreign blame on 2016 email attack
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Twelve Russian intelligence officers have just been indicted by the Justice Department for hacking the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 elections.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced on Friday that 12 foreign agents from Russia’s GRU intelligence agency attempted to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. In order to do this, the agents used spear-phishing attacks through malware. Using the “X-agent” malware, the Russian intelligence officers were able to use and collect passwords from unsuspecting targets via key-logging and screenshots. Read more…
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Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaigns
Facebook’s hundreds of pages of follow-ups to Senators make for decidedly uninteresting reading. Give lawyers a couple months and they will always find a way to respond non-substantively to the most penetrating questions. One section may at least help put a few rumors to rest about Facebook’s role in the 2016 Presidential campaigns, though of course much is left to the imagination.
View More Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaignsSynack is the latest cybersecurity company to offer state elections its services for free
The cybersecurity firm Synack will offer its penetration testing services to states for free in an effort to secure election systems for the 2018 midterms. Synack, founded by two former NSA analysts, is best known for its bug bounty program that allows its carefully curated stable of researchers to probe a client’s systems for vulnerabilities. […]
View More Synack is the latest cybersecurity company to offer state elections its services for freeMark Zuckerberg testified before the EU Parliament, but the hearing’s format left MEPs with no answers
Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on May 22nd to discuss data protection. The hearing’s format had all the EU lawmakers asking him questions for about an hour straight, leaving Mark Zuckerberg with only a few m…
View More Mark Zuckerberg testified before the EU Parliament, but the hearing’s format left MEPs with no answersWhat we can learn from the 3,500 Russian Facebook ads meant to stir up U.S. politics
On Thursday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a massive new trove of Russian government-funded Facebook political ads targeted at American voters. While we’d seen a cross section of the ads before through prior releases from the committee, the breadth of ideological manipulation is on full display across the more than 3,500 newly released […]
View More What we can learn from the 3,500 Russian Facebook ads meant to stir up U.S. politicsCentrify gives states a deal on identity management software to secure midterm elections
To secure U.S. election systems from the very real threat of targeted cyberattacks, states might need to reframe their security practices to look more like they would in a tightly controlled corporate environment. To that end, Centrify, an enterprise cloud-based identity management company, is extending its security offerings to help states cover their bases as […]
View More Centrify gives states a deal on identity management software to secure midterm electionsJames Comey lets rip on Trump in first televised interview since firing
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If you thought the disdain between Donald Trump and former FBI director James Comey would fizzle away, Sunday surely allayed any prospect of a truce.
Ahead of the launch of his autobiography A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Comey appeared on ABC’s 20/20, in his first televised interview since being fired as director of the FBI.
In the five-hour interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos — it has been transcribed online, if you’re truly keen — Comey took aim at the president and responded to criticism of his handling of the Clinton email investigation. Read more…
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View More James Comey lets rip on Trump in first televised interview since firingReddit and Pornhub hosted fake Hillary Clinton porn linked to Russian accounts
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As we found out in March, Facebook, Twitter and Google aren’t the only online platforms where Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. election has proved a problem.
Now, NBC News reports that Russian-linked accounts on Reddit, Pornhub, Spankbang and Imgur pushed a fake pornographic video of Hillary Clinton.
The video, named “Leaked Hillary Clinton’s Hotel Sex Tape with Black Guy,” was reportedly created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency, which has been accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
On Reddit, the video was posted by a now banned and archived account called Rubinjer, which had more than 100,000 upvotes to its name. Upvotes are the equivalent of Facebook’s likes, and in conjunction with downvotes, are used to determine the relevancy of a post or comment. Read more…
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