Hackers break into voting machines within 2 hours at Defcon

[G_j]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hackers-break-into-voting-machines-defcon-las-vegas/

JUL 30, 2017 11:18 PM EDT SCITECH
CBS NEWS

Hackers from around the world had the rare opportunity to crack election-style voting machines this weekend in Las Vegas -- and they didn't disappoint.

After nearly an hour and a half, Carsten Schürmann, an associate professor with IT-University of Copenhagen, successfully cracked into a voting machine at Las Vegas' Defcon convention on Friday night, CNET reports.

Schürmann penetrated Advanced Voting Solutions' 2000 WinVote machine through its Wi-Fi system. Using a Windows XP exploit from 2003, he was able to remotely access the machine, CNET reports.

Voting technology was thrust into the political spotlight when election systems in several states were targeted by Russian cyber attacks. The convention purchased more than 30 voting machines for the event, although, organizers didn't specify how many models those units represented.

"The exposure of those devices to the people who do bug bounties or actually look at these kind of devices has been fairly limited," Brian Knopf, director of security researcher for Neustar, told CNET. "And so Defcon is a great opportunity for those of us who hack hardware and firmware to look to these kind of devices and really answer that question, 'Are they hackable?'"

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[RandomAccess]

1. We will never be sure we are getting accurate election results

until we have paper ballots, handcounted in full public view.

More info

ICYMI -- BOMBSHELL - ATTN Naysayers who think elections can't be stolen via machines -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210885412

and also this post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10893190

[NightWatcher]

2. Hack an entire election for the Dems and the repukes will get it fixed before they leave.

Have an election night go 95-5% for the Dems this year (obvious to everyone that it's a hack) and the repukes will get it fixed before January.

[hedda_foil]

3. That's from this July 30 last year. The DefCon hack is well known and nothing has been done.

[Best_man23]

4. Here's a couple more articles

From IT and cyber security news-focused sites, in case the Trump Humpers and Mulligans (evangelicals supporting Trump) try to wave the "fake news" flag at the CBS reference.

"The machines – from Diebolds to Sequoia and Winvote equipment – were bought on eBay or from government auctions, and an analysis of them at the DEF CON Voting Village revealed a sorry state of affairs. "

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/29/us_voting_machines_hacking/

"“90 min after doors open: Complete remote control on the operating system level of the Winvote voting terminal (including election data).”" (note emphasis on the end of this quote is by me)

and

"Just as SC Media entered the Village area in the early afternoon, a young female researcher screamed and laughed with glee as she and fellow researchers infiltrated an e-poll book system's internal database and structures, which house voter registration names." (again, emphasis on the end of this quote is by me)

https://www.scmagazine.com/election-tech-hacked-within-hours-at-def-con-voting-village/article/678454/