Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I hope everyone had a great and relaxing Memorial Day weekend. Here's Robert Frost's “Not to Keep” on the hidden costs of war.
Below: The Post's tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler collected all the privacy policies for apps on his phone — they were nearly twice the length of “War and Peace.” Also, the United States finalized restrictions of some hacking tools, aligning the U.S. government with more than 40 other nations.
The findings are from a recent review of the voting machines and represent a mixed bag for people concerned about foreign and domestic interference in U.S. elections.
First, the good news: There’s no evidence any of the vulnerabilities have been used to alter votes in any elections, as my colleagues Ellen Nakashima and Amy Gardner report. Most of the vulnerabilities are also quite difficult to exploit, requiring hands-on access to the voting machines. And they’re likely to be caught by standard security protocols in election offices.
But: The vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems-brand machines remained undetected for years. They might not have been discovered now if not for a long-running lawsuit over the security of Georgia’s machines during which University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman was given a chance to examine the machines on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case.
Such independent reviews are still relatively rare — and election security advocates warn vulnerabilities in other voting...
A senior Iranian official has slammed the United Arab Emirates for being an aggressor, not merely a supporter of aggression, stating that the UAE cannot hide its aggressive nature and role behind ...