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Cybersecurity Concerns Facing the 2024 U.S.

Elections

By Zac Amos, Features Editor, ReHack

Cybersecurity oversights are making infrastructure in the U.S. the most fragile it has been in history.
Hackers are constantly developing new strategies to topple critical societal systems, including voting.
Election season is here, and experts are analyzing the most prominent threats to design suitable
defenses. What does this look like, and do these trends indicate a new future of cybersecure voting
practices?

The Election Infrastructure Landscape

Cyberattacks are not uncommon in voting spaces. However, their increasing severity and frequency
require more regulatory collaboration and action. Disruptions used to include ransomware, phishing
variants and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threats.

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