Collaborate Disseminate
Eddie Tipton, a programmer for the Multi-State Lottery Association, secretly installed software that allowed him to predict jackpots. What’s surprising to me is how many lotteries don’t use real random number generators. What happened to picking golf balls out of wind-blown steel cages on television?… Continue reading Insider Attack on Lottery Software
Interesting article about how a former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association hacked the random-number generator in lottery software so he could predict the winning numbers. For several years, Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the US Multi-State Lottery Association, installed software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, investigators… Continue reading Hacking Lottery Machines
Terminals were manipulated to produce more winning, and fewer losing, tickets. Continue reading Cops: Lottery terminal hack allowed suspects to print more winning tickets