Secure, available and transparent elections systems help preserve the public trust in the democratic process. As the U.S. November general election approaches, officials and IT leaders are evaluating whether their elections systems and processes can stand up to a range of cybersecurity threats. Threat actors seek to disrupt the nation’s elections systems so they can extort money, manipulate voters with deceptive disinformation, and alter voter information and results. They use phishing, ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks to target voter registration databases, websites, email systems and networks.
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