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After an election season dominated by conspiracy theories and false claims about voting, top election officials across the country say they already are bracing for what comes next. They are grappling with ways they can counter waves of misinformation in the 2022 midterms and beyond related to voting procedures and the accuracy of election results. A major topic in virtual gatherings this week of the National Association of Secretaries of State and National Association of State Election

DHS cyber agency rethinking its debunking of election falsehoods after right-wing backlash “Some of the actions that CISA took in the last election cycle were controversial,” said Brandon Wales. In this Oct. 6, 2020, file photo, a public service announcement from the FBI and the CISA is shown. | Jon Elswick, File/AP Link Copied CISA may have made a mistake by aggressively combating disinformation that was popular with conservatives during the 2020 election, the agency’s acting director su...

The Capitol Insurrection and Pineapples on Pizza The events of January 6th will echo in American history for years to come. While other essays in this special edition may focus on root causes of the insurrection or legal issues relating to the definition of domestic insurrection, in this brief essay I want to look at the role that cybersecurity efforts played in saving our Nation. Along the way, I will also explore the role Hawaiian pizza played (but more on that later). Cybersecurity may not h...

Joan Donovan, who studies media manipulation and extremism, discusses the Capitol attack and how we got here.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In April of this year, which seems far longer than eight months ago, we posted about an alert from federal agencies warning that cyber threat actors were exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to fuel phishing and other attacks. Those efforts have continued throughout the year with attackers now retooling their messaging around the COVID-19 vaccine. Criminal threat actors know millions are clamoring for information about the vaccine and ...

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 In April of this year, which seems far longer than eight months ago, we posted about an alert from federal agencies warning that cyber threat actors were exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to fuel phishing and other attacks. Those efforts have continued throughout the year with attackers now retooling their messaging around the COVID-19 vaccine. Criminal threat actors know millions are clamoring for information about the vaccine and are working to meet that...

Russia’s Latest Cyberattack Highlights Moscow’s Boldness The Russian cyberespionage group is thought to have gained backdoor access to hundreds of entities, such as the United States Treasury, Department of Commerce, and Department of Homeland Security, and many other private and government entities. The Russian Cyber-Bear has roared once again. The notorious Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 29, or Cozy Bear, seems to have forgone hibernation this winter in order to continue carrying out a ...

US President Donald Trump and his supporters have been claiming that the outcome of the US Presidential Election was a fraudulent one, making way for

They a blaming the puerto rican government for being corrupt. remaining with us. tamara keith and josh gerstein. the president retweeted fema, we have created a rumor control page updated. during disasters, its critical to avoid spreading false information. i wonder if thats the death toll on puerto rico watch does the npr style book say about an era where we are covering presidents denying death tolls on u.s. territories involving u.s. citizens? >> well, at this time we keep doing fact checks a...

Function in the military. and so they are held accountable, certainly, by their conduct but, this is all just rumor control. and so thats the sad part about this. >> harris: interesting. im reading now from your statement i expect admiral jackson to face the same amount of scrutiny for the physician in the senate as any other nominee for cabinet position. we will be watching for it. sir, thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> harris: for more, lets bring in christopher, contrib...