KILL CHAIN: THE CYBER WAR ON AMERICA’S ELECTIONS
REVEALING SHOCKING EXTENT OF VULNERABILITIES IN AMERICA’S VOTING SYSTEMS In advance of the 2020 Presidential election, KILL CHAIN: THE CYBER WAR ON AMERICA’S ELECTIONS, debuting THURSDAY, MARCH 26 (9:00-10:35 p.m. ET/PT), takes a deep dive into the weaknesses of...
Getting Elections Right with Paper Ballots and Audits (Contributed)
BY DAN WEBBER, HARRI HURSTIAND AND MAGGIE MACALPINE / FEBRUARY 24, 2020 Technology will dominate how we vote in the 2020 presidential elections, and so will the risks. To avoid problems, we need to get back to the basics with paper ballots and use risk-limiting audits...
Harri Hursti on Bloomburg about The Future of Digital Threats
Nordic Innovation Labs Founding Partner, Harri Hursti discusses the Future of Digital Threats on Bloomburg Technology with Emily Chang at 23:00. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-08-20/-bloomberg-technology-full-show-08-20-2019-video
Hackers were told to break into U.S. voting machines. They didn’t have much trouble.
By Taylor Telford August 12 at 3:10 PM LAS VEGAS — As Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) toured the Voting Village on Friday at Def Con, the world’s hacker conference extraordinaire, a roomful of hackers applied their skills to voting equipment in an enthusiastic effort to...
Election Security High Priority for Secretaries of State
The nation’s chief elections officials are pleading for more money from the federal government to shore up the security of crucial voting systems before the presidential contest in 2020, even as such aid appears dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate. See how Harri Hursti...
Funding fights lead to vulnerable votes
There likely isn’t a quick fix for complex U.S. election integrity challenges such as social-engineering interference on Facebook. Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves...
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords
States and counties have had two years since the 2016 presidential election to educate themselves about security best practices and to fix security vulnerabilities in their election systems and processes. But despite widespread concerns about election interference...
US election integrity depends on security-challenged firms
It was the kind of security lapse that gives election officials nightmares. In 2017, a private contractor left data on Chicago’s 1.8 million registered voters — including addresses, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers — publicly exposed for months on an...
DEF CON 26 Voting Village Report
This is the 2018 Voting Village Report, detailing the significant findings and vulnerabilities discovered at DEF CON 2018. Compiled by election security experts and backed by Secretaries of State, this report represents a small portion of the numerous vulnerabilities...
UN Accidentally Exposes Passwords and Sensitive Information
THE UNITED NATIONS accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs. The mistakes made sensitive material...