| Description |
1 online resource (58 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
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Policy brief / Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2209-9689 ; No. 41/2020 |
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Policy brief (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) ; no. 41/2020 2209-9689
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| Summary |
Over the past decade, state actors have taken advantage of the digitisation of election systems, election administration and election campaigns to interfere in foreign elections and referendums. Their activity can be divided into two attack vectors. First, they've used various cyber operations, such as denial of service (DoS) attacks and phishing attacks, to disrupt voting infrastructure and target electronic and online voting, including vote tabulation. Second, they've used online information operations to exploit the digital presence of election campaigns, politicians, journalists and voters. Together, these two attack vectors (referred to collectively as 'cyber-enabled foreign interference' in this report because both are mediated through cyberspace) have been used to seek to influence voters and their turnout at elections, manipulate the information environment and diminish public trust in democratic processes. This research identified 41 elections and seven referendums between January 2010 and October 2020 where cyber-enabled foreign interference was reported, and it finds that there's been a significant uptick in such activity since 2017 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-57) |
| Notes |
"Fundiing for this report was provided by Twitter." |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 4, 2020) |
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Internet in political campaigns.
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Electronic voting -- Security measures
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Elections -- Corrupt practices.
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Political campaigns -- Corrupt practices
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Information warfare.
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Disinformation.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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Social media -- Political aspects
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Disinformation
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Elections -- Corrupt practices
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Information warfare
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Internet in political campaigns
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Internet -- Political aspects
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Political campaigns -- Corrupt practices
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Social media -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hanson, Fergus, author
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Currey, Emilia, author
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Beattie, Tracy, author
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute, publisher
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