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A week in security (February 17 – 23)

February 24, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, awis, BlueKeep, catfishing, Chrome Extension, crypto scams, deepfakes, elections, epic games, firmware, idaas, identity-as-a-service, jamila kaya, lokibot, Ransomware, scammers, twitter, voatz, week in security, weekly blog roundup, youtube hack

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:32:34 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s most notable security stories and events, including cloud identity management, a noteworthy Twitter scam-tastrophy, RobbinHood ransomware, and more.

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A week in security

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Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 2020 election, default passwords, Defcon, election systems, election tampering, elections, Government security, matt blaze, poor encryption, security threats, voting machines, voting village, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:31:59 +0000

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.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/buAZK9dzyQA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Video captures glitching Mississippi voting machines flipping votes

August 29, 2019 0 Comments 2020 election, 2020 US presidential election, Election Systems and Software, elections, Government security, Mississippi, TSX, voter fraud, voting machines, voting security, voting systems

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:36:59 +0000

A video that shows an electronic machine switching voters’ selections has gone viral, underscoring the need for paper audit trails.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/S5QpMILdY0g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>