6 ways mail-in ballots are protected from fraud
The mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that together make it hard for one person to vote fraudulently, and even more difficult to commit voter fraud on a scale capable of swinging election outcomes.
What the US needs to do to secure election 2020
Despite more funding and promises from tech companies, only a multifaceted, polycentric approach that makes changes up and down the stack will be up to the task, experts say.
A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?
With cloud-based technology, cyber criminals can crack an eight-character password in under 12 minutes for as little as $25.
House lawmakers push digital identity verification
The Improving Digital Identity Act of 2020 provides a first step in developing more secure, interoperable digital credentials.
Defending the 2020 election against hacking: 5 questions answered
In light of revelations that the Russian intelligence services placed malware in the election registration systems of at least two Florida counties in 2016, one expert describes the vulnerabilities of the U.S. election system.
Can local governments’ cyber flaws be fixed?
High-profile cyber incidents such as the ransomware attacks that shut down Baltimore and Atlanta have made localities more aware of threats, but without staff and budgetary resources, their ability to take action is limited.
Can governments kick their Chinese manufacturing addiction?
The real issue is not who might be compromising the supply chain, but rather that the supply chain can be compromised, leaving broad swaths of industry left to wonder about their security rather than actually know.
Are agencies unintentionally contributing to unemployment fraud?
By implementing advanced digital identity verification, agencies can adapt to the modern fraud landscape and prevent cybercriminals from obtaining benefits on behalf of someone else, ultimately protecting their citizens from fraud.
Reaction and overreaction: The unemployment insurance disaster
Analytics technology can pore through thousands of unemployment claims filed across many different accounts, reducing fraud and adding speed and confidence to the payment process.
Rural telecoms face $1.8 billion tab to replace Huawei and ZTE equipment
The Federal Communications Commission has added up how much it will cost to replace the Huawei and ZTE equipment in America's rural telecommunications infrastructure: $1.84 billion.
‘Fake news’ spotlighted in virtual cyber exercise
This year, the National Guard’s massive annual cyber exercise, Cyber Shield 2020, is moving completely online and focusing on information operations.
Cyberattacks on state, local government up 50%
Targeted instances of intrusion, fraud or damage by malicious actors rose sharply since 2017, according to a new cybersecurity report.
Our quantum internet breakthrough could help make hacking a thing of the past
By using multiplexing, a common telecommunications technique of combining or splitting signals, we can effectively send these entangled photon pairs to multiple combinations of people at once.
Administration moving forward with vulnerability disclosure policies
The Office of Management and Budget and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have issued guidance to federal agencies on how to set up vulnerability research and disclosure programs.
Could Colorado’s election security unit serve as a model for other states?
The Rapid Response Election Security Cyber Unit is composed of highly trained election security specialists charged with protecting the state’s elections from cyberattacks and interference as well as responding to other voting system vulnerabilities.
Security outside agencies’ comfort zone depends on automation, experience
Embracing automation for most network analysis leaves security analysts time to consult playbooks, focus on unique problems, experts say.
How government is delivering better election security
While it becomes increasingly difficult to ensure the security and integrity of the 2020 election, plenty of progress has been made on the cybersecurity front since 2016, experts say.
Closing security gaps in mobile apps with source code protection
App development teams must look for resilient source code protection that not only obfuscates the source code to hinder reverse-engineering but that also adds runtime defenses to thwart copycats and lock attackers out.
Unearned unemployment: Who is collecting money meant for Americans in need?
A lack of anti-fraud measures, bypassed processes that had been in place to help verify benefit claims and data inaccuracies -- combined with the rampant availability of cheap, stolen account credentials and personally identifiable information on dark web markets -- has led to an unprecedented increase in unemployment fraud.
DARPA hardware-based security holding up against white-hat hackers
About halfway into a bug bounty program, security researchers haven’t yet broken into systems protected by the System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware program.
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