U.S. defense officials have said that a cyber operation aimed at deterring Russian interference in American elections is underway. U.S. Cyber Command is going after individual Russian operatives, notifying them that they
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Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Ben Cardin, D-Md., have introduced new legislation, titled the Protect Our Elections Act. The proposed law seeks to shield U.S. elections from the influence of foreign adversaries
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Undersecretary Chris Krebs of the Department of Homeland Security said during a recent panel on election cybersecurity that his agency is prepared to fend off any attempts by foreign adversaries to meddle in
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, a 2018 Wash100 awardee, on Sept. 5 delivered a speech at George Washington University highlighting “a worldwide outbreak of cyberattacks and cyber vulnerabilities,” and describing cyberspace
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Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has said that the lack of a mechanism to audit election results in certain U.S. states poses a “national security concern,” Reuters reported
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The House Intelligence Committee has decided to end its investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election, The Hill reported Monday. Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) told reporters Monday the House panel did not find
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Senators plan to include amendments addressing election security and congressional oversight in a bill that would reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security, The Hill reported Monday. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Some election experts have urged Congress to give states additional funds to secure voting machines against state-sponsored hackers, USA Today reported. Matthew Blaze, an associate professor of computer and information science at the
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The Department of Homeland Security has convened a new government council for election infrastructure security in cooperation with the Election Assistance Commission, the National Association of Secretaries of State and election officials across
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Christopher Krebs, acting undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity and critical infrastructure division, has said that DHS created a task force that will oversee the security of state and local
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