Democracy at Risk from Poor Cybersecurity, Foreign Interference: Survey

For more than a year, a single thread has dominated American news: foreign interference in US elections. It started in June 2016 in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced it had been hacked, and CrowdStrike accused Russia-based Cozy Bear (APT 29). Since then, the ramifications have rarely been out of the news. In October 2016 the U.S. government formally accused Russia of being behind the cyberattacks, and by December it became known that the CIA believed that "Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system," The Washington Post reported.