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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 12:19 PM EDT |
It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to
date.Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters
heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an
8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts
at the Vulnerability
Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say
the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no
trace of the manipulation behind. “We believe these man-in-the-middle
attacks are potentially possible on a wide variety of electronic voting
machines,” said Roger Johnston, leader of the assessment team “We think we can
do similar things on pretty much every electronic voting
machine.
Brad Friedman,
Salon[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
We recently received two malicious utilities that appeared to be
digitally signed using a valid
Adobe code signing certificate.
blogs.adobe.com
Adobe say there's nothing wrong with their software, but IMO this is yet
another reason to keep Adobe in
a locked cage.
In this
article we are going to analyze the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, from
both a
technical and security perspective. We will also take a brief look at
the new Windows 8 EFI Kernel, we’ll
discover many new interesting feature
Microsoft implemented in it.
www.itsec.it The Conclusion explains that Secure Boot is
needed because of the weaknesses
discussed in the article. What they don't
explain is that a commercial OS cannot trust any other boot loader for
the same
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
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