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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 suggested on Wednesday. “This agency has long benefited from broad bipartisan support in this countr...

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 have the most obvious nexus to the insurrection, but it assuredly did. To see this most clearly, we m...

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 are working to meet that demand with false information, largely through phishing attacks. According ...