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It’s October! Surprise in store for voters

• Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy

• Slovak Vote Shows Need for NATO Action on Russian Disinformation

• Russia Just Helped Swing a European Election

Listen to: MIC DROP: ELECTION SECURITY? SLOVAKIA'S CAUTIONARY TALE

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Meanwhile … Elaborate Deepfake Operation Takes a Meeting With US Senator

HOT TIP: Hexagon Center recommends USAFacts (usafacts.org).

📰 Headline Highlights

• Google’s Gmail Decision—‘Significant Risk’ For Millions of Users

• Cyber-Attacks Hit Over a Third of English Schools

• Dallas suburb working with FBI to address attempted ransomware attack

• T-Mobile agrees to pay $31.5 million to resolve FCC data breach charges

• Patelco Credit Union Data Breach Impacts Over 1 Million People

• Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities

• FCC is offering $200 million to protect schools and libraries from hackers

• Fraudsters imprisoned for scamming Apple out of 6,000 iPhones

• Research reveals vulnerabilities in routers that left 700,000-plus exposed

In other news, Neural data privacy an emerging issue as California signs protections into law

MUST READ: As open enrollment kicks off this month, here’s something that we are reposting. Americans Clicked Ads to Get Free Cash. Their Health Insurance Changed Instead.

🤷‍♀️ What now?

2024's triple threats on election disinformation

We know that the world is paying attention to the American election more than ever before. Especially for a handful of nations that may potentially be doing something nefarious.

🔥 Hot Tip: Watch what they do, not what they say.

LOOK OUT: Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate

This being our election edition and the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we realize that it is not a coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time. Curating today’s edition and editing it is quite surreal as we receive warnings about the election that is 100% cybersecurity related.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

• Deepfake - a video or audio of a person in which their face or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else, typically used maliciously or to spread false information.

• AI stands for artificial intelligence - a set of technologies that allow computers to perform complex tasks that typically require human intelligence:

• Phishing - the fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

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