Election Security

In 2016 the Russian government tried to hack into Connecticut’s online voter registration system. They were not successful but the state of Connecticut says it’s ready if it happens again. “If the Russians want to get into something they can….

In the early morning hours of January 10, the Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments in Essex was hit with a ransomware attack that left their files encrypted with a demand to pay a foreign attacker. The agency’s work…

HARTFORD, CT — Two days after President Donald Trump eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill convened the second meeting of the Elections Cybersecurity Task Force. At the very beginning…

There is a growing and gathering danger shadowing American democracy and our system of elections. It is that malicious foreign actors have demonstrated the motivation and capability to significantly disrupt the 2020 election cycle, thus undermining public confidence in the…

The Connecticut Secretary of the State’s office has partnered with the National Guard to provide cybersecurity for the presidential election in November. Scott Bates is the Deputy Secretary of the State. He said National Guard personnel trained in cybersecurity have…