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Sun Jul 26, 2020, 02:55 PM Jul 2020

Election Officials Are Vulnerable to Email Attacks

Election Officials Are Vulnerable to Email Attacks

July 26, 2020 at 2:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/26/election-officials-are-vulnerable-to-email-attacks/

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Wall Street Journal: “Many of the thousands of county and local election officials who will be administering November’s presidential election are running email systems that could leave them vulnerable to online attacks, a new report has found.”

“More than half of the officials used email systems with limited protection from phishing attacks… The findings underscore problems with the country’s diverse, locally administered election system that attracted the attention of state-sponsored hackers four years ago.”

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