Governments should be willing and, moreover, regard it as their duty to assist these entrepreneurs and organizations with legal and regulatory progression, rather than opening a competing offensive front through punishment that only serves hostile forces. Keep Reading
Silicon Valley is under heavy public and political pressure to crack down on foreign operations. However, some cyber experts say it’s too late for them to secure their platforms before voters cast ballots on Nov. 6. Keep Reading
Call provided opportunity to connect private and public officials to share information on actions being taken to combat threats to our elections and to our democracy. Keep Reading
The activity is significant, and demonstrates that actors beyond Russia continue to engage in and experiment with online, social media-driven influence operations to shape political discourse. Keep Reading
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So, how did this exactly happen? According to Twitter, this vulnerability came about due to an issue within the hashing process that masks passwords. Keep Reading
Over the past decade, foreign terrorists command and capability in the digital sphere has drastically evolved. But our responses to this have not adapted with the same efficiency. Keep Reading
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University previously developed the Social Privacy Protector to help users evaluate their friends list in seconds and identify which have few or no mutual links and might be “fake” profiles. Keep Reading