Update: E-voting Vendor's Web Site Hacked

[kster]

By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
March 20, 2008

A company whose e-voting machines have come under fire from election officials in New Jersey confirmed that its site had been hacked Thursday.

A section of Sequoia's Web site was hacked overnight, and when the company realized what had happened it took the site down and removed the "intrusive content," Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer said.

Sequoia made "security enhancements" to protect the site from further hacking, and it was back online Thursday afternoon, Shafer said. The company is investigating the origin of the attack.

The hack was noticed Thursday morning by Ed Felten, a computer scientist who has been asked to investigate voting-machine discrepancies in the state's primary election.

The "Ballot Blog" page of Sequoia's Web site had no content early Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, and earlier in the day, there were messages on the page announcing that it had been hacked, Felten told IDG News Service.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/20/E-voting-vendors-Web-site-hacked_1.html

[tbyg52]

1. But their *machines* are secure, don'cha know..... nt