election

Sleuths Scramble to Test Caucus Apps After Iowa “Shadow Inc.” Imbroglio

ACRONYM, a non-profit organisation lead by former Obama campaign worker Tara McGowan, appears to have admitted one of its companies,…

Election Systems Worldwide Vulnerable to Attack: FireEye

Election systems across the world are vulnerable to attack by malicious cyber actors, cyber intelligence company FireEye warned in a…

Big Data & the 2017 Election – Why it was about much more than predicting the result

The jury is still out on the pollsters’ performance in the 2017 UK General Election. Most of the final polls…

UK public objects to personal data use by political parties

Data may be frequently described as being the new oil but a large amount of the UK public would rather…

French election odds favour Macron but was the campaign targeted by hackers?

A Japanese cybersecurity firm has found links to a possible attempted hacking of the Macron campaign in the 2017 French Presidential…

Google and Facebook lobby Trump for “open internet”

A consortium of internet companies including Facebook and Google has addressed President-elect Donald Trump asking him to support the freedom…

US election: Canada immigration site crashes as Trump defeats Clinton

The Canadian immigration website crashed on the night of the US election for President as a Donald Trump victory became increasingly…