Dark Reading

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A threat group known as "Void Rabisu" used a spoofed Women Political Leaders Summit website to target attendees to the actual conference with espionage malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A Chinese-speaking APT group, tracked as MirrorFace, is behind a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities. ESET researchers recently discovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities and attributed it to the Chinese-speaking APT group tracked as MirrorFace. ” concludes the report.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A threat actor dubbed “Void Rabisu” used social engineering to target attendees of the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit that was held in Brussels from June 7 to 8, 2023, Trend Micro has found.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Researchers at ESET warn that a Chinese-speaking threat actor dubbed “MirrorFace” targeted Japanese political organizations with spear phishing emails in the run-up to the Japanese House of Councillors election in July 2022.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 22, 2024

On 30 November 2023, the EU reached political agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act (“ CRA ”), the first legislation globally to regulate cybersecurity for digital and connected products that are designed, developed, produced and made available on the EU market. The CRA was originally proposed by the European Commission in September 2022.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2018

Propaganda Efforts - and Adversary OPSEC - Continue to Improve, Experts Warn Facebook has suspended eight pages and 24 accounts for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" tied to apparent political influence campaigns ahead of an event in Washington. While Facebook declined to attribute the activities to specific individuals or groups, U.S.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 23, 2023

With shades of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, German political parties skirted consumer data privacy regulations during the country's last parliamentary election, a privacy watchdog warns.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Trading Bloc Reaches Political Agreement on the Cyber Solidarity Act The European Parliament and the council of direct European national governments reached a political agreement Tuesday on a proposal that seeks to improve trading bloc cybersecurity.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Mozilla Foundation studied 25 car brands and found some collecting data on ‘sexual activity’ and ‘political opinions Drivers have been warned that cars present a “privacy nightmare” with vehicle manufacturers collecting extensive personal data on drivers, even including their sexual activities.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On December 8, 2023, the European Parliament and the Council reached a political agreement on the EU’s Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (the “AI Act”). The AI Act will introduce a risk-based legal framework for AI.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 30, 2023

On June 27, 2023, the Council and the European Parliament reached a Political Agreement (“Political Agreement”) on the Proposal for a Regulation on harmonized rules on fair access to and use of data (the “Data Act”). A formal vote both in the Council and European Parliament will follow this Political Agreement.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Now we have: Recount Media is an entirely new approach to video about politics. But in short, the idea is this: The tech story is now a political story, and the political story is, well, a mess. But now, I’m convinced politics holds that honor. John curated the political piece, I ran the business programming.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Federal Elections Commission is determining whether its existing statutory authorities allow it to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in campaign advertisements after receiving thousands of comments from the public about the use of AI in political ads.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 28, 2023

Wired just published an interesting story about political bias that can show up in LLM's due to their training. It is becoming clear that training an LLM to exhibit a certain bias is relatively easy.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 8, 2018

But for nation-state hacking that targets intellectual property or interference in political affairs, the U.S. Attributing Hack Attacks to Governments Remains a Diplomatic Tool. Does It Work? Espionage: Every nation does it. But does it work?

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ACt Will Require Developers to Allows A Copyright Holder Opt Out Two key European Parliament committees accepted a political compromise set to govern how trading bloc countries develop and deploy artificial intelligence. The regulation is set to become the globe's first comprehensive AI regulation.

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Elie

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this UX research we identify the key cybersecurity challenges faced by political campaigns as they face increasing threats from well-funded, sophisticated attackers, especially nation-states.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 2, 2022

The European Commission, European Parliament and EU Member States reached political agreement on the DMA on March 22, 2022. The DSA complements another piece of related proposed legislation, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), which is also pending final approval.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Study Shows Correlation Between Polite Language, Culture and LLM Output It pays to be nice, even to an inanimate chunk of code masquerading as a conversation partner, find Japanese researchers from Tokyo's Waseda University who investigated the performance of large language models under conditions ranging from rudeness to obsequiousness.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

government accused Russia's domestic intelligence agency of running a yearslong campaign to interfere in British politics. Both Governments Sanction 2 'Star Blizzard' Hackers; US Indicts Them The U.K.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Zscaler CISO Sam Curry on Impact on People, Geo-Political Tensions, Cyber Community Just days after the unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, Zscaler CISO Sam Curry discusses the intertwined nature of cyber warfare and physical conflicts and how the conflict can quickly escalate to the global stage, harm globalized economies and devolve into digital (..)

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 20, 2019

Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them vulnerable to attack.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Petition Signed by 65 Parliamentarians and 31 Civil Society Organizations More than five dozen British lawmakers across political parties and privacy organizations called for an "immediate stop" to real-time facial recognition in the United Kingdom. jurisdictions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Security experts at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group aimed at political targets. APT28 , Sednit , Sofacy , Zebrocy , and Strontium ) aimed at political targets. The post A new Fancy Bear backdoor used to target political targets appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 11, 2023

The Spyware Can Record Audio, Take Pictures, Track Locations and Steal Passwords A low-profile Israeli advanced spyware firm used a suspected zero-day to surveil the lives of journalists, political opposition figures and a nongovernmental organization worker across multiple continents, say researchers from the Citizen Lab and Microsoft.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 27, 2019

Social media network says the change was part of crackdown on third party plug-ins Facebook has restricted the ability of external political transparency campaigners to monitor adverts placed on the social network, in a move described as an “appalling look” by one of the organisations affected.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Twitter announced it has banned 936 accounts managed by China-linked actors that attempted to sow political discord in Hong Kong. Twitter has observed and banned 936 accounts managed by China-linked actors that attempted to stir up riots and sow political discord in Hong Kong. ” reads the announcement published by Twitter.

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Elie

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this UX research we identify the key cybersecurity challenges faced by political campaigns as they face increasing threats from well-funded, sophisticated attackers, especially nation-states.

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Archive-It

MARCH 8, 2023

This emphasis on local politics over national concerns was echoed by Speaker Tip O’Neill when he regularly reiterated that “all politics is local” throughout the 1980’s. However, fast forward to our modern era and the emphasis on local politics seems to have significantly faded. He received his PhD from Cornell University.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

AI is "a long way from massively influencing our perception of reality and political discourse."

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2022

But are the attacks a sign of much more to come or more of a politically motivated proof of concept? Hack Attacks That Affect Operational Security Environments Remain Rare The Predatory Sparrow hacking group recently claimed to have triggered fires in multiple state-run Iranian steel foundries via hack attacks.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 1, 2020

For the month of April, the Scottish Political Archive is, along with our colleagues in the University Archives, taking part in ARA Scotland’s #Archive30 Twitter campaign which will see us tweeting about a daily theme for the whole month – or giving it our best, anyway! We’ve chosen a bottle of ashes.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 10, 2018

Facebook fined for data breaches in Cambridge Analytica scandal In March 2017 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced an inquiry into how voters’ data was being obtained and used by political campaigns following the Observer’s early investigative reports into Cambridge Analytica.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 29, 2022

On March 24, 2022, the European Union unveiled the final text of the Digital Markets Act (the “DMA”). The final text of the DMA was reached following trilogue negotiations between the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Member States (led by the French Presidency at the European Council).

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook created by bipartisan Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) group provides political campaigns with tips for securing data, accounts.

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Threatpost

JUNE 15, 2020

This removal, of 32K accounts, is not the first time Twitter has taken action to protect its users from influence operations. Researchers weighed in on the practice with Threatpost.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2021

Members of Parliament Targeted by Spear Phishing, German Media Reports Several members of the German parliament, The Bundestag, and political activists in the country were targeted using a spear-phishing campaign, German newsmagazine der Spiegel reported Friday. This is second such incident, following the 2015 parliament hack.

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