Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers

It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.

Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.

Video captures glitching Mississippi voting machines flipping votes

A video that shows an electronic machine switching voters’ selections has gone viral, underscoring the need for paper audit trails.

US pushed Russian troll factory offline during US midterm elections

The US blocked internet access to Russian trolls who, they say, were trying to spread FUD.