The greater amount of absentee voting and mail-in ballots “shifts the risk towards voter registration data security,” senior DHS official Matt Masterson said Wednesday.

Joshua Franklin has been working as an election security advocate for years, drawing attention to the issue at hacking conferences.

Building on progress made in Illinois and elsewhere requires more federal money, experts say.

DHS's top cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, says he's "a little nervous" about the midterms, but he and his peers argue that the country is more prepared to deal with the threat of interference.

DHS will use the domain takedown as another reason to brief states on the latest threats that could threaten the 2018 midterm elections.

With midterm elections less than three months away, state and local officials rolled up their sleeves to take part in the most sophisticated national-level election security exercise to date.