How vulnerable are U.S. election operations to email spoofing?
This post is an excerpt from the Valimail research report, 2020 Election Infrastructure Remains Vulnerable to Email Hacking, which was released last week — receiving coverage on NPR and elsewhere. U.S. elections happen largely at the local level, with elections administered by local boards of elections or registrars of voters. Those elections are usually conducted […]
How vulnerable are U.S. political campaigns to election interference from spoofed email?
How much can you trust that a political fundraising email really came from who it appears to come from — or that if you click the links in the message, that the money you donate will actually end up in the account of who you intended to support? The answer, when it comes to most […]
How vulnerable are states to election interference from spoofed email?
[Sassy_Social_Share] Valimail has been monitoring the usage of email authentication technologies in election infrastructure for several years now. Our analysis shows that, at virtually every level of the American election infrastructure, there is massive vulnerability to email impersonation. This is due largely to the poor penetration of email authentication standards that can prevent spoofing: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. […]
