The 2021 cyber attack on the UK electoral registers is exactly the kind of threat that @1br0wn @profchrismarsden JL and I warned about affecting the complex, multi-stage electoral lifecycle in our ~200pp 2020 "Cybersecurity for Elections" report for @commonwealthsec (pdf: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093271/1/Cybersecurity_for_Elections_PDF.pdf) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66441010 #Elections #cybersecurity