Security News This Week: Pro-Trump Trolls Flooded the Iowa Caucus Phone Lines
Security News This Week: Pro-Trump Trolls Flooded the Iowa Caucus Phone Lines
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 11, 20205m 17s
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Show Notes
The week kicked off with the Iowa caucuses, which went very poorly, in so many ways! We'll talk about a few of them below, but the main takeaway is that adding unvetted technology to the voting process—or anything—rarely makes things better. Other states, please take note! Actually, Nevada and New Hampshire already have. It's a start. In another unwelcome technological evolution, ransomware has started targeting industrial control systems, which bodes poorly for critical infrastructure.
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