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There’s been a cybersecurity goof in the wake of the US presidential elections, the US fingers the hackers responsible for disrupting the Winter Olympics in South Korea, and we take a long hard look at long hard legal mumbojumbo…
All this and much… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #204: Green buttons, Olympic attacks, and… an apology
Voting machines are under the microscope, scammers are posing as rap stars, and American politician AOC isn’t the only one who’s been getting into the Among Us game.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Sma… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #202: The Wu-Tang Clan are Among Us
Germany’s democracy is in danger, as the upcoming federal elections in the country, where nearly 61.5 million citizens are going to vote on September 24th, could be hijacked.
Hackers have disclosed how to hack the German voting software to tamper with votes and alter the outcome of an election.
Yes, election hacking is no theory—it is happening.
A team of researchers from German hacking
Continue reading Proof It’s Possible to Hack German Elections; Hackers Tamper with Voting-Software
Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket. Continue reading Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket
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Today, election hacking is not just about hacking voting machines, rather it now also includes hacking and leaking dirty secrets of the targeted political parties—and there won’t be a perfect example than the last year’s US presidential election.
But, in countries like America, even hacking electronic voting machines is possible—that too, in a matter of minutes.
Continue reading Hackers Take Over US Voting Machines In Just 90 Minutes
What’s striking about the story alleging that Russia targeted an election software vendor is what straightforward, tried-and-tested tools were used Continue reading Russians apparently ‘targeted US election via phishing attacks’