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FBI's Elvis Chan on Efforts to Bolster Cybersecurity of Social MediaStung by signs of Russian influencing of the 2016 presidential election, the FBI is working with social media companies to...

While under heavy fire for the user privacy blunder involving U.K. firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook took its time this week to present some of the steps it is taking to protect elections from...

The use of Facebook data to target voters has triggered global outrage with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But the concept is nothing new: Barack Obama made extensive use of the social network...

Bill Seeks $380 Million for States, But DHS Says Most Lack Security ClearancesStates will not have the full range of much-needed cybersecurity practices and equipment in place for this year's U.S....

Facebook's chief of security late Monday said his role has shifted to focusing on emerging risks and election security at the global social network, which is under fire for letting its platform be...

Donald Trump's administration on Thursday levied sanctions against Russia's top spy agencies and more than a dozen individuals for trying to influence the 2016 US presidential election and...

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: President Trump has not authorized the National Security Agency to go after Russian election hackers at the source. Also, 23,000 digital...

Battling Foreign Hacking and Propaganda Campaigns Leads Agenda for Secretaries of StateIn the wake of Special Counsel Robert Mueller unsealing an indictment charging Russian individuals and...

The plan came a day after a federal indictment describing a Russian conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election.

'Information Warfare Against the United States' AllegedA U.S. grand jury has taken the extraordinary step of indicting 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for allegedly interfering...