Despite challenges, Minnesota’s top election official is ‘an optimist’ heading into November
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon spoke with CyberScoop about election security, funding fights with Congress and how to tackle disinformation.
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Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ VP pick, has a notable record on cyber
The Democrat signed a cyber executive order for Minnesota, a data privacy law and more.
Training days: How officials are using AI to prepare election workers for voting chaos
Election officials in Arizona and Minnesota are creating novel training exercises to combat AI-generated content this November.
The governor’s office says the NSA isn’t involved in the response to Minnesota’s protests. But here’s how it could be.
Comments by Gov. Tim Walz, combined with activity by the military, created some confusion about role of the Pentagon's foreign signals intelligence agency.
Anonymous, aiming for relevance, spins old data as new hacks
The group is trying to use the nationwide protests to draw attention to data that was stolen years ago.
Election security bill still needs work in some areas, state officials tell Senate sponsors
Six states discussed with the main sponsors of the Secure Elections Act how they would implement the bill.
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DHS notifies 21 states of Russian hacking attempts prior to 2016 election
A small number of networks were compromised, CyberScoop has learned, but none of the targeted systems involved the tallying of votes.