Ransomware concerns grow as election nears
What's new: Ransomware attacks on election infrastructure, a hospital chain, and IoT devices are raising concerns about what could happen as we near the US presidential elections.
Why this matters: Federal officials are worried that ransomware attacks could be prevalent in the days before the election or in its wake, sowing further chaos in what already promises to be a highly contested outcome.
Klon Kitchen is a managing director at Beacon Global Strategies and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
