The Owner of SecurityCouncilMemberElectionGovernor Can Replace Cohorts And Bypass The Election Process

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In SecurityCouncilManager contract: the cohorts members are replaced by election via replaceCohort function; the process goes as follows: 1. an election proposal is made by anyone after 6-months of the last election via...

SecurityCouncilMemberSyncAction.perform is not exclusively can be scheduled from SecurityCouncilManager's operations

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact SecurityCouncilMemberSyncAction.perform is a crucial function that will be triggered by upgrade executor via delegate call after the whole election process or after current members do some update add/remove/replace/rotate to update security council...

Possible DoS of Election Process

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Contract SecurityCouncilNomineeElectionGovernor allows contenders to participate in the election process as nominee over function addContender. The necessary condition for this process is that proposal was created before and has status...

Roundtable video: Disinformation and election security

By Jon Munshaw. In our continued coverage of election security, we decided to sit down with four Talos and Cisco researchers to discuss disinformation. As we outlined in our recent research paper, disinformation is one of the cornerstones of threat actors' efforts to disrupt the American election...

Voatz Internet Voting App Is Insecure

This paper describes the flaws in the Voatz Internet voting app: "The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in U.S. Federal Elections." Abstract: In the 2018 midterm elections, West Virginia became the first state in the...

US Voting Systems Deemed Critical Infrastructure

The Department of Homeland Security has designated the U.S. voting infrastructure, including voting machines and registration databases, as critical infrastructure. On Friday, Secretary Jeh Johnson elevated the voting infrastructure to a critical infrastructure subsector under the existing...