How Easy Is It To Hack US Election Machines??
Aug 2, 2017 07:37:59 #
At Def Con — an annual hacking conference held in Las Vegas — hackers were given the rare chance to crack into US voting machines. It took one person just 90 minutes to hack in and vote remotely on one of the machines. http://www.businessinsider.com/def-con-hacker-voting-machine-election-hacking-2017-7
Jake Braun, a former White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security and another one of the event’s organizers, told Reuters that he hopes the convention will dispel claims from many of the companies that make the machines that they are “unhackable.”
“There’s been a lot of claims that our election system is unhackable. That's BS,” Braun said. “Only a fool or liar would try to claim that their database or machine was unhackable.”
"All of these machines are known to be hackable. This is about education." #VotingVillage@defcon
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Over the weekend, hackers have the opportunity to tinker with voting machines that are still used in US elections. Hackers have the freedom to test how the machines can be manipulated remotely or physically through their hardware.
Machines in the #VotingVillage include: Sequoia AVC Edge, ES&S iVotronic, Diebold TSX, Winvote, and Diebold Expresspoll 4000
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
According to the official Twitter page of the event, one hacker was able to gain complete remote control of the operating system of a WINVote machine, including election data, in around an hour and a half.
Greetings from the Defcon voting village where it took 1:40 for Carsten Schurmann to get remote access to this WinVote machine. http://pic.twitter.com/1Xk3baWdxv
— Robert McMillan (@bobmcmillan) July 28, 2017
90 min after doors open: Complete remote control on the operating system level of the Winvote voting terminal (including election data).
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
The "security" of these WINvote machines is so bad. Running WinXP, autorun enabled and hard-coded WEP wifi password. http://pic.twitter.com/AlOiAPcRra
— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) July 28, 2017
...But I thought no voting machines had wireless access? Oops. #VotingVillage
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Hackers also posted updates that they were able to break into Diebold machines and e-polling software within an hour.
Voter database where 1=0?? #VotingVillage http://pic.twitter.com/ECyuWiGTUv
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
On the e-pollbook front: internal data structure already discovered and reverse engineered within an hour. #VotingVillage
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
At one point, the organizers set up a competition, splitting the group into a blue team that defended a mock Board of Elections network and voter registration database, and a red team that attempted to breach them.
Harri Hursti officially starting the voting machine hacking competition #defcon25 http://pic.twitter.com/yCLpt7DYqo
— Alfredo Ortega (@ortegaalfredo) July 28, 2017
Hackers at the event also heard from security experts and others who are working to keep election systems safe from outside influence.
"The link between the voter and elected officials cannot be broken" Amb Lute @defcon#votingvillage http://pic.twitter.com/M72fTwEUej
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Fmr. US-NATO Amb. Doug Lute: "Thanks @defcon@thedarktangent & hacker community for raising critical nat sec issue w/the @VotingVillageDC
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
David Jefferson, talking about the complexity of election information systems @VotingVillageDC http://pic.twitter.com/ZXygBegCGd
— Joseph Lorenzo Hall (@JoeBeOne) July 28, 2017
Blaze said that he hopes the event will also raise awareness about the vulnerabilities of voting machines, and the need for more security.
This year's voting machine village seems like the most important and consequential thing Defcon has ever done.
— Ryan Lackey (@octal) July 28, 2017
Jake Braun, a former White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security and another one of the event’s organizers, told Reuters that he hopes the convention will dispel claims from many of the companies that make the machines that they are “unhackable.”
“There’s been a lot of claims that our election system is unhackable. That's BS,” Braun said. “Only a fool or liar would try to claim that their database or machine was unhackable.”
"All of these machines are known to be hackable. This is about education." #VotingVillage@defcon
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Over the weekend, hackers have the opportunity to tinker with voting machines that are still used in US elections. Hackers have the freedom to test how the machines can be manipulated remotely or physically through their hardware.
Machines in the #VotingVillage include: Sequoia AVC Edge, ES&S iVotronic, Diebold TSX, Winvote, and Diebold Expresspoll 4000
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
According to the official Twitter page of the event, one hacker was able to gain complete remote control of the operating system of a WINVote machine, including election data, in around an hour and a half.
Greetings from the Defcon voting village where it took 1:40 for Carsten Schurmann to get remote access to this WinVote machine. http://pic.twitter.com/1Xk3baWdxv
— Robert McMillan (@bobmcmillan) July 28, 2017
90 min after doors open: Complete remote control on the operating system level of the Winvote voting terminal (including election data).
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
The "security" of these WINvote machines is so bad. Running WinXP, autorun enabled and hard-coded WEP wifi password. http://pic.twitter.com/AlOiAPcRra
— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) July 28, 2017
...But I thought no voting machines had wireless access? Oops. #VotingVillage
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Hackers also posted updates that they were able to break into Diebold machines and e-polling software within an hour.
Voter database where 1=0?? #VotingVillage http://pic.twitter.com/ECyuWiGTUv
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
On the e-pollbook front: internal data structure already discovered and reverse engineered within an hour. #VotingVillage
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
At one point, the organizers set up a competition, splitting the group into a blue team that defended a mock Board of Elections network and voter registration database, and a red team that attempted to breach them.
Harri Hursti officially starting the voting machine hacking competition #defcon25 http://pic.twitter.com/yCLpt7DYqo
— Alfredo Ortega (@ortegaalfredo) July 28, 2017
Hackers at the event also heard from security experts and others who are working to keep election systems safe from outside influence.
"The link between the voter and elected officials cannot be broken" Amb Lute @defcon#votingvillage http://pic.twitter.com/M72fTwEUej
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
Fmr. US-NATO Amb. Doug Lute: "Thanks @defcon@thedarktangent & hacker community for raising critical nat sec issue w/the @VotingVillageDC
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
David Jefferson, talking about the complexity of election information systems @VotingVillageDC http://pic.twitter.com/ZXygBegCGd
— Joseph Lorenzo Hall (@JoeBeOne) July 28, 2017
Blaze said that he hopes the event will also raise awareness about the vulnerabilities of voting machines, and the need for more security.
This year's voting machine village seems like the most important and consequential thing Defcon has ever done.
— Ryan Lackey (@octal) July 28, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 08:28:10 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
ACP45 wrote:
At Def Con — an annual hacking conference held in ... (show quote)
The FBI and DHS had warned every State in the Union that their voting systems were vulnerable................in the summer of 2016. DHS offered technical help to any State that wanted it, and not one State availed themselves of this offer. A investigative journalist with computer expertise, examined the website of a company handling the voting network for one State, and found dozens of files containing - voter registration details, names of election officials and their passwords, and portal information for the network.
It is a sign of technical ignorance, when we talk about hacking voting machines - as though a hacker would have to modify each machine separately. This is simply NOT true anywhere, as all States have computer networks that talk to the precincts, which in turn talk to the voting machines, collecting and tabulating State wide voting results, usually under that States Secretary of State's office. A hacker need only access ONE network in each State, then modify vote tally's however they wish. One hacker can easily handle 50 hacks - in one weekend. Many of the States were using the same outdated anti virus software, making hacking that much easier.
No State has cooperated with the counter intelligence services in their effort to detect potential hacking - not one - and the Federal Government is not forcing the issue. It appears that no one wants to know if it happened, or the extent that it happened. When States and the Federal Government repeatedly announce that no one "affected" last years vote, they do so with confidence, because if you don't look, you don't see and what you don't see didn't happen. The old "cat in the box" conundrum.
Aug 2, 2017 16:19:34 #
Aug 4, 2017 10:16:00 #
IF,there is ANYTHING to be gained,by cheating,Someone,Somewhere,is going to figure out how to make it work in his favor....
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