Collaborate Disseminate
They also found evidence that Stuxnet has ties to another malware family. The discoveries were made using tools and techniques only available to researchers in recent years. Continue reading Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company’s server and used it to push the malware to machines. Continue reading Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately. Continue reading DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System
Researchers have found a severe issue in the new Swiss internet voting system that they say would let someone alter votes undetected. They say it should put a halt to Switzerland’s plan to roll out the system in real elections this year. Continue reading Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System
The public penetration test doesn’t begin until next week, but experts who examined leaked code for the Swiss internet voting system say it’s poorly designed and makes it difficult to audit the code for security and configure it to operate securely. Continue reading Experts Find Serious Problems With Switzerland’s Online Voting System Before Public Penetration Test Even Begins
Apple security expert Jon Callas, who helped build protection for billions of computers and smartphones against criminal hackers and government surveillance, is now taking on government and corporate spying in the policy realm. Continue reading Apple’s Security Expert Joined the ACLU to Tackle ‘Authoritarian Fever’
A vendor manual for voting machines used in about ten states shows the vendor instructed customers to use trivial, easy to crack passwords and to re-use the passwords when changing log-in credentials. Continue reading Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords
The voting machines and their software—not voters—are to blame for votes switching from Beto O’Rourke to Ted Cruz (and vice versa), an expert told Motherboard. Continue reading Texas Voting Machines Have Been ‘a Known Problem’ for a Decade
Election officials say security ties and seals prevent anyone with physical access to voting machines from manipulating them. But a researcher has shown how he can easily defeat them with a soda can. Continue reading Security Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Easily Opened With Shim Crafted from a Soda Can
DoJ says current federal law against hacking doesn’t apply to voting machines because they aren’t connected to the internet; but this plus a proposed amendment could create a problem for prosecuting hacks of other computers not connected to the internet. Continue reading Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able to Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers