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Enlarge / A voting machine is submitted to abuse in DEFCON’s Voting Village. (credit: Sean Gallagher) Today, six prominent information-security experts who took part in DEF CON’s Voting Village in Las Vegas last month issued a report on vulnerabilities they had discovered in voting equipment and related computer systems. One vulnerability they discovered—in a high-speed […]
While hackers at the DefCon security conference dismantle voting machines, officials stress the need for means to act on the results. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b6df9217e5f0b7f259cb895/master/pass/DefCon2017_14991335.jpg
Matt Linton says he was asked to leave Caesars Palace Thursday night after a tweet about an “attack” was reported to the police. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b6db4b6f6d47809bff3a5d8/master/pass/caesars-458582883.jpg
Last year, Defcon’s Voting Village made headlines for uncovering massive security issues in America’s electronic voting machines. Unsurprisingly, voting machine makers are working to prevent a repeat performance at this year’s show. According to Voting Village organizers, they’re having a tough time getting their hands on machines for white-hat hackers to test at the next […]
Enlarge / Meatpistol was supposed to be released at DEFCON. But Salesforce pulled the plug—and fired two security employees for presenting about it. (credit: DEFCON/Schwartz and Cramb) At Defcon in Las Vegas last month, word rapidly spread that two speakers—members of Salesforce’s internal “red team”—had been fired by a senior executive from Salesforce “as they […]
