Russian hackers are still going to be a huge problem for 2020 elections

Don’t call it a comeback. Russian hackers have been preparing for the 2020 elections for years —and the U.S. still isn’t ready.

Intelligence officials are warning that foreign interference in the form of disinformation and hacking campaigns are still going to be a major factor in the coming elections. While U.S. companies and government agencies may be smarter after 2016, so are the Russian hackers and trolls.

According to The New York Times, which interviewed experts and officials preparing for foreign interference in 2020, these trolls and hackers have been developing more advanced methods to interfere with U.S. elections. Namely, they’re making it harder to track what they’re up to. Read more...