russia election interference
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Crappy Email Security Could Be the Next Big Threat to American Elections: Report
Given the embarrassing catastrophe that was the 2016 presidential election, staving off cyberattacks and foreign influence campaigns is a top priority for election officials nationwide as we get closer to November. Apparently, though, no one thought to apply that same level of scrutiny to their emails. Who’d have thought phishing scams would be the downfall of…
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Report: Paul Manafort Tried To Score Deal With Ecuador To Hand Julian Assange Over To The U.S.
Julian Assange, the embattled Wikileaks founder who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012 for fear he could be extradited to the U.S. for publishing classified material, is in deep trouble. Court documents mistakenly released appear to suggest that he is facing unspecified, sealed charges in the U.S. that could…
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Reddit: We’ve Found 1000 Suspected Russian Troll Accounts, But Most Of Them Sucked At Getting Upvotes
Reddit says it has identified and plans to purge 944 accounts suspected to be tied to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian troll farm that has been linked to an alleged campaign to spread disinformation and propaganda on US social media sites before the 2016 US elections.
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Facebook Now Says It Will Verify US Election Ad Buyers’ Identities With Postcards
Facebook, which landed itself in the crosshairs after becoming one of the primary venues by which US federal prosecutors allege a Kremlin-linked, pro-Donald Trump Russian operation called the Internet Research Agency tried to flood the US with disinformation and propaganda before the 2016 elections, now says it will verify the identities of people who buy…