DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Voting Village Village – Martin Mickos’ ‘See Something, Say Something’

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DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Voting Village Village – Amélie Koran’s ‘Hacking Democracy II: On Securing An Election’

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Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers. Continue reading Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers. Continue reading Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

DEF CON Voting Village report explores vulnerabilities in ballot-marking devices, calls for paper-based audits

After finding security weaknesses in two ballot-marking devices at this year’s DEF CON Voting Village, researchers are calling for “more comprehensive studies” of equipment that is increasingly a part of the voter experience. The findings come as states consider the security advantages of election systems that create a paper trail. Ballot-marking devices, or BMDs for short, allow voters to mark their choices on a screen and then print them out. The paper ballots are then counted by hand or scanned by a separate machine. “The security implications of ballot marking devices should be studied more,” researchers said in the 2019 Voting Village report, which sums up more than two days of hacking and tinkering at a Las Vegas casino in August. “Current and proposed next-generation ballot marking devices  have not been designed with security considerations in mind,” they argued. The researchers say that data stored by the two BMDs they studied could […]

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11-year-old hacker changes election results

It took him less than 10 minutes to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website. Continue reading 11-year-old hacker changes election results

DEF CON 2018: Voting Hacks Prompt Push Back from Election Officials, Vendors

The Vote Hacking Village invited attendees – including kids as young as six – to hack the voting infrastructure, including ballot machines, a voter database and more. Continue reading DEF CON 2018: Voting Hacks Prompt Push Back from Election Officials, Vendors

US Voting Machines Hacked At DEF CON – Every One

US Voting Machines Hacked, some in minutes at this year’s DEF CON “Voting Village” – not something you want to hear really. Especially with the results of recent elections that the World is currently dealing with the consequences from. Of course with physical access, most machines can be dominated in some way or another – […]

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