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Is Windows the greatest cyberthreat to the 2020 US election?
With Election Day coming up fast, there’s evidence that Windows-based attacks could be imminent — or may have already started. Seeds of chaos being sown already?
Defense Dept. rolls out Microsoft Teams to millions of remote workers
The temporary deployment of Teams and other Office 365 tools is part of a wider effort by the sprawling agency to support staffers as remote work surges during the current pandemic.
MIT researchers say mobile voting app piloted in U.S. is rife with vulnerabilities
The flaws could let a hacker alter, stop or expose how a person has voted.
U.S. Air Force to pilot blockchain-based database for data sharing
The blockchain ledger will enable data ingest from legacy data systems and wikis as well as a native web application build platform
Iowa Caucus chaos likely to set back mobile voting
While the app used to tally votes during the Iowa Caucus on Monday was not a mobile voting app, it could still undermine confidence in any future attempts to roll out the technology.
Seattle tries out mobile voting
But voter skepticism about online security has some Washington state officials responsible for general elections wary of rolling out the tech.
The race to integrate crypto into global banking is real
Public sector projects are driving greater interest to adopt fiat-backed cryptocurrencies by central and regional banks.
Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance
Blockchain-based digital wallets could give owners control over their digital identity in a way that would eliminate the business silo systems of today.
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