What Happens When Local Election Administrators Believe Trump’s Big Lie?
Donald Trump and Tina Peters, Colorado’s Mesa County clerk and recorder.Mother Jones illustration; Getty; AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.With a wooden cross towering behind her, Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters took the stage on September 16 at the…
It’s Not Just a Pipeline. Ransomware Attacks are Proliferating Across the Country.
Colonial Pipeline’s facility in Linden, New Jersey.Debra L. Rothenberg/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Saturday, Colonial Pipeline, a company that runs large fuel storage and transfer facilities, announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack.…
Ukraine Wants the FBI to Help Investigate Russian Hacking of Burisma
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press On the day the US Senate formally began the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the government of Ukraine said it had asked the FBI for help getting to the bottom of an alleged email phishing campaign targeting Burisma Holdings. The impeachment inquiry is deeply tied to earlier requests from…
Why Didn’t Trump Tell Congress There Was Evidence Russia Hacked Burisma?
Caroline Brehman/CQ via Zuma In the wake of a report by a computer security firm claiming Russian hackers recently waged a “successful” phishing attack against Burisma, the gas company U.S. officials pressed Ukraine to investigate—requests that helped lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment—Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising questions about why they only found out about…
Online Voting is a Really, Really Bad Idea
Miguel Candela/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Casting votes over the internet—at least for anything more important than a Twitter poll—is not secure. “This level of secrecy hardly inspires confidence.”This is not a controversial position. In September 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, alongside some of the foremost election and information security experts…
How Russian Hackers Conquered the World
FangXiaNuo/Getty Before the 2016 US presidential election, most Americans had very little sense of Russia’s hacking capabilities and the extent to which its operatives were causing havoc. But the country’s hackers had been quite active and well known in some communities well before, staging a series of increasingly brazen and destructive attacks against regional rivals,…
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