3DOZEN voting system tied to internets
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'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet
A team of election security experts used a “Google for servers” to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did.
New warnings of hacking risks for voting systems connected to the internet
Jan. 10, 202002:51
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Jan. 10, 2020, 3:36 PM PST
By Kevin Monahan, Cynthia McFadden and Didi Martinez
It was an assurance designed to bolster public confidence in the way America votes: Voting machines “are not connected to the internet.”
Then Acting Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security Jeanette Manfra said those words in 2017, testifying before Congress while she was responsible for the security of the nation’s voting system.
So many government officials like Manfra have said the same thing over the last few years that it is commonly accepted as gospel by most Americans. Behind it is the notion that if voting systems are not online, hackers will have a harder time compromising them.
But that is an overstatement, according to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.
That team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.
“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News.
A team of election security experts used a “Google for servers” to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did.
New warnings of hacking risks for voting systems connected to the internet
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Jan. 10, 2020, 3:36 PM PST
By Kevin Monahan, Cynthia McFadden and Didi Martinez
It was an assurance designed to bolster public confidence in the way America votes: Voting machines “are not connected to the internet.”
Then Acting Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security Jeanette Manfra said those words in 2017, testifying before Congress while she was responsible for the security of the nation’s voting system.
So many government officials like Manfra have said the same thing over the last few years that it is commonly accepted as gospel by most Americans. Behind it is the notion that if voting systems are not online, hackers will have a harder time compromising them.
But that is an overstatement, according to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.
That team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.
“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News.
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For election systems to be online, even momentarily, presents a serious problem, according to Appel.
“Once a hacker starts talking to the voting machine through the modem, the hacker cannot just change these unofficial election results, they can hack the software in the voting machine and make it cheat in future elections,” he said.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides cybersecurity frameworks for state and local governments and other organizations, recommends that voting systems should not have wireless network connections.
So, no online registration or online voting from this day forward, right?
evince
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You assholes keep claiming no one altered votes in 2016
how could they do that and then claim NONE are connected to the internets
they never checked to see if someone changed votes in 2016
or they would not be claiming no internets connections
so no one checked to see if the Russian altered votes
and they just lied and said none were connected to the internets
Republicans never even tried to protect our voting system
they LOVE the Russian help because they cant win elections
how could they do that and then claim NONE are connected to the internets
they never checked to see if someone changed votes in 2016
or they would not be claiming no internets connections
so no one checked to see if the Russian altered votes
and they just lied and said none were connected to the internets
Republicans never even tried to protect our voting system
they LOVE the Russian help because they cant win elections
evince
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NBC News reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, which declined to comment on the topic of modem security in voting machine tabulators and scanners.
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Data on 198M voters exposed by GOP contractor | TheHill
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/338383-data-on-198-million-us-voters-left...
"Deep Root Analytics builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV viewership. The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client.
Deep Root Analytics: Millions of Voters' Data Leaked | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2017/06/19/deep-root-analytics-voter-data-exposed
Information about more than 198 million U.S. citizens was exposed after a conservative firm stored data on a publicly accessible server. By a data firm contracted by the Republican National Committee
Data of almost 200 million voters leaked online by GOP ...
https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/technology/voter-data-leaked-online-gop
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root said in a statement the data was exposed on June 1 when the firm updated security settings. The firm said it "builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV...
RNC Voter Data on 198 Million Americans Exposed in ...
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/rnc-voter-data-on-198-million...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root Analytics acknowledged the voter data leak and took "full responsibility for this situation," according to a report in The Hill. Although Deep Root Analytics in The Hill report said the...
Deep Root leaks the kind of voter data sought by Russians ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/deep-root-leaks-voter-data-russia-2017-6
Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed "was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily...
Author: Natasha Bertrand
The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files
The Discovery
The Operation
The Significance
In the early evening of June 12th, UpGuard Cyber Risk Analyst Chris Vickery discovered an open cloud repository while searching for misconfigured data sources on behalf of the Cyber Risk Team, a research unit of UpGuard devoted to finding, securing, and raising public awareness of such exposures. The data repository, an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, lacked any protection against access. As such, anyone with an internet connect…
See more on upguard.com
Millions of Texas voter records exposed online – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/millions-of-texas-voter-records-exposed-online
Aug 23, 2018 · A massive trove of voter records containing personal information on millions of Texas residents has been found online. The data — a single file containing an …
198 Million Voter Records Exposed in a Common ... - WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-records-exposed-database
The Deep Root Analytics server Vickery found contained information that was mostly publicly accessible anyway—think names, addresses, party affiliation, and so on.
Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/19/republican-data-mining-firm-exposed-personal...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root Analytics builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV viewership. The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client. It …
198 million Americans hit by 'largest ever' voter records ...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-lapse-exposes-198-million-united-states-voter...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root's exposure also appears to be larger than the 191 million voter records exposed in late 2015, and another massive leak of 154 million voter …
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https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/338383-data-on-198-million-us-voters-left...
"Deep Root Analytics builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV viewership. The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client.
Deep Root Analytics: Millions of Voters' Data Leaked | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2017/06/19/deep-root-analytics-voter-data-exposed
Information about more than 198 million U.S. citizens was exposed after a conservative firm stored data on a publicly accessible server. By a data firm contracted by the Republican National Committee
Data of almost 200 million voters leaked online by GOP ...
https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/technology/voter-data-leaked-online-gop
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root said in a statement the data was exposed on June 1 when the firm updated security settings. The firm said it "builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV...
RNC Voter Data on 198 Million Americans Exposed in ...
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/rnc-voter-data-on-198-million...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root Analytics acknowledged the voter data leak and took "full responsibility for this situation," according to a report in The Hill. Although Deep Root Analytics in The Hill report said the...
Deep Root leaks the kind of voter data sought by Russians ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/deep-root-leaks-voter-data-russia-2017-6
Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed "was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily...
Author: Natasha Bertrand
The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files
The Discovery
The Operation
The Significance
In the early evening of June 12th, UpGuard Cyber Risk Analyst Chris Vickery discovered an open cloud repository while searching for misconfigured data sources on behalf of the Cyber Risk Team, a research unit of UpGuard devoted to finding, securing, and raising public awareness of such exposures. The data repository, an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, lacked any protection against access. As such, anyone with an internet connect…
See more on upguard.com
Millions of Texas voter records exposed online – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/millions-of-texas-voter-records-exposed-online
Aug 23, 2018 · A massive trove of voter records containing personal information on millions of Texas residents has been found online. The data — a single file containing an …
198 Million Voter Records Exposed in a Common ... - WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/voter-records-exposed-database
The Deep Root Analytics server Vickery found contained information that was mostly publicly accessible anyway—think names, addresses, party affiliation, and so on.
Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/19/republican-data-mining-firm-exposed-personal...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root Analytics builds voter models to help enhance advertiser understanding of TV viewership. The data accessed was not built for or used by any specific client. It …
198 million Americans hit by 'largest ever' voter records ...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-lapse-exposes-198-million-united-states-voter...
Jun 19, 2017 · Deep Root's exposure also appears to be larger than the 191 million voter records exposed in late 2015, and another massive leak of 154 million voter …
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No problem..I agree...
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One corporate CEO of voter machine equipment, ON TAPE in OHIO, promising to deliver the election to George W. Bush. 2000 or 2004, I don't remember.
24/7? Hardly
Not only human, but retired special ed teacher...which is why I'm so patient and tolerant with you
evince
Truthmatters
yeap
that guy owned the Top voting machine manufacturing business
the republicans WANTED to go to computers because they NEW they were vulnerable
and NOW republicans keep winning elections WITHOUT the popular vote
NEVER does that happen to the Democratic party
that is statistically impossible
unless some fucks are cheating huh