Author Topic: Defcon hackers find it's very easy to break voting machines  (Read 1422 times)

https://www.cnet.com/news/defcon-hackers-find-its-very-easy-to-break-voting-machines/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/30/hackers-defcon-conference-exploit-vulnerabilities-voting-machines/523639001/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hackers-break-into-voting-machines-defcon-las-vegas/

Quote from: cbs news
Synack, a San Francisco security platform, discovered serious flaws with the WinVote machine months ahead of this weekend's convention. The team simply plugged in a mouse and keyboard and bypassed the voting software by clicking "control-alt-delete."

"It's really just a matter of plugging your USB drive in for five seconds and the thing's completely compromised at that point," Synack co-founder Jay Kaplan told CNET. "To the point where you can get remote access. It's very simple."

The Synack team also cracked the machine from a mobile application by installing a remote desktop program to it. In one case study, Synack found a Virginia poll worker hacked the machine to play Minesweeper.

A hacker, who only identified himself as "Oyster," tried to crack a Diebold voting machine after another team had compromised it.

"I hope that we find a load of vulnerabilities in these just so we can open it up to the public to see how serious the problem is," he told CNET.

jesus christ how insecure

theres no loving way lmao

I kind of thought they would build the voting machines from scratch
and that way even plugging in a USB wouldn't do anything (even one of the killer/frying USBs)


standard computer devices work on computers

who would've thought

you've got to be stuffting me

maybe this is a little outside the box but perhaps they should hide the goddamn USB ports behind a sheet of metal and some bolts?

Quote from: CBS
"Oyster"
i guess this means the world is his










oyster

i guess this means the world is his


oyster

the world is a planet

Hussian R4ckerz!!!11!11!11!!!!!!One


< casting your vote on anything except a paper ballot

It's like you WANTED Hillary to manipulate your vote

Yeah we should have paper ballots idk why we have voting machines

theres no loving way lmao
are you kidding me
you've got to be stuffting me
Nope, nope, and nope... This is exactly why I've been 100% vehemently against electronic voting. And guess what? there are 14 states that don't have paper trails to go along with all their electronic votes.

physical access is root access