Us Election Hacking

US electoral financing based on pvt fundraising, transparency: Top official

America's electoral financing system is based on private fundraising and emphasis on transparency, with a candidate allowed to accept up to USD 3,300 from any individual while the limit for party committees is USD 41,300, according to a top US Federal Election Commission official. Ellen L Weintraub, Vice Chair of the US's Federal Election Commission, spoke to PTI in an interview taken following the recent landmark ruling by India's Supreme Court to scrap the central government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding, calling it "unconstitutional" and ordering disclosure of the bond's donors, amount and recipients by March 13. We have a system that is based on private fundraising, but public transparency. Most of the money is raised privately, but it does have to be disclosed on a regular basis, Weintraub said. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC,

Russia-linked group attacked corporate systems, hacked emails: Microsoft

The group that Microsoft deemed responsible, also known as "Nobelium," is a sophisticated nation-state hacking group that the US government has tied to Russia

2022 federal elections in US not tainted by foreign interference: Report

Foreign hackers did not change vote totals or otherwise compromise the integrity of federal elections last year in the United States, according to a declassified US government report made public on Monday. The report does identify multiple instances in which hackers linked to Iran, China and Russia connected to election infrastructure, scanned state government websites and copied voter information. But it says there is no evidence that any of the cyber activity had any impact on the election or on the vote totals. We have no evidence that any detected activity prevented voting, changed votes, or disrupted the ability to tally votes or to transmit election results in a timely manner; altered any technical aspect of the voting process; or otherwise compromised the integrity of voter registration information or any ballots cast during 2022 federal elections, the report says. The report, a joint document prepared by the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security, ...

FB, Google, Microsoft, Twitter meet US intel agencies on 2020 poll security

Social media firms are under pressure to ramp up security after what US intelligence has called an extensive Russian cyber-influence operation aimed at helping President Trump get elected in 2016

Who's in charge of protecting social media from election interference?

With less than 10 weeks until the US midterms, the passing of responsibility between companies and the government is leading to the uncomfortable conclusion that nobody has the full picture

Russia planning to meddle in mid-term polls to help Democrats: Donald Trump

Trump claimed that the Russian meddling would be in favour of the Democrats as he was tough on Moscow

FBI misled judge to spy on Trump aide; Russian inquiry bias, claims memo

Democrats assailed the document as mischaracterizing and cherry-picking information to make a politically motivated case

Twitter to meet Senate to provide assistance in Russia meddling probe

Twitter last week confirmed that officials would be meeting with the Senate panel

Russians tried to hack into California election system ahead of 2016 polls

California's Secretary of State said he was informed for the first time about such activities on Friday