Seriousness of recent breaches and threat to vote sharply divides election security experts in front of Congress

Published with permission from AlterNet Election officials say not to worry. But computer scientists do. The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology was briefed Tuesday on 2016’s doomsday election scenario: what would happen if Russians, or another army of cyber hackers, attempted to infiltrate and corrupt the presidential election voting machinery. What made the hearing…

The hackers who broke into Democratic Party systems released more documents Tuesday, including the work cellphone numbers, personal email addresses and cellphone numbers of top Obama White House officials, along with voter redistricting plans, donor lists, and technology updates. The hack, while probably good for the Trump campaign, is not so good for America’s future. We…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has taken down its scientific press release website because of a “serious security breach.” The AAAS posted an advisory on its eurekalert.org website saying it was acting out of an abundance of caution. “The integrity of content on our website is of the utmost concern to us,” the…