CISA Releases Security Advisory on Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X

CISA has released an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory ICSA detailing vulnerabilities affecting versions of the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X, which is an in-person voting system used to allow voters to mark their ballot. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities would requir...

PT-2022-3258

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dominion Voting System ImageCast X affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the manipulation of Dominion Voting System ImageCast X devices through specially crafted election definition files, allowing for arbitrary...

Ransomware attack turns 2022 into 1977 for Somerset County

1977 was quite the year. Led Zeppelin! Jimmy Carter! Saturday Night Fever! We can now add "a ransomware attack" to this once static list. Somerset County, New Jersey, has been hit so hard by a network assault that theyve ended up in the direst straits imaginable, with county databases unavailable...

FBI Conducted 3.4 Million Warrantless Searches of Americans' Data

Plus: Trump backers breach election systems, Microsoft tracks Russia's war prep, a new Facebook leak reveals a mess, and Bored Ape Yacht Club gets hacked...

FBI Releases PIN on Phishing Campaign against U.S. Election Officials

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Private Industry Notification PIN to warn U.S. election and other state and local government officials about invoice-themed phishing emails that could be used to harvest officials’ login credentials. CISA encourages federal, state, and local...

Beware the Never-Ending Disinformation Emergency

YouTube still draws a hard line on Trump’s rigged election claims. Two years later, it doesn't hold up...

Cooldown and redeem windows can be rendered useless.

Handle ShippooorDAO Vulnerability details Impact Cooldown and redeem windows can be rendered useless. Proof of Concept Given an account that has not staked sNOTE. Account calls sNOTE.startCooldown Account waits for the duration of the cooldown period. Redeem period starts. Account can then deposi...

The 2021 Naughty and Nice Lists: Cybersecurity Edition

Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...

PT-2022-12582 · Mediawiki +1 · Mediawiki +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MediaWiki versions prior to 1.35.5 MediaWiki versions 1.36.x prior to 1.36.3 MediaWiki versions 1.37.x prior to 1.37.1 Description: An issue allows some unprivileged users to view confidential information, such as IP addresses and User-Agent...

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Experts Clear Off the Crystal Ball

As we walk through the doorway of 2022, it's hard not to wish at least some among us had the gift of cosmic foresight. Many most? of the questions we thought in 2021 that we'd have answered by this point — chief among them, when will COVID finally leave us alone??? — still seem to elude us. In...

Iranians Charged in Cyberattacks Against U.S. 2020 Election

The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed charges against two Iranian nationals for cyberattacks against the U.S. 2020 presidential campaign, and there’s a $10 million reward offered for information on their activities. The two men, Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, alleged...

U.S. Charged 2 Iranian Hackers for Threatening Voters During 2020 Presidential Election

The U.S. government on Thursday unsealed an indictment that accused two Iranian nationals of their involvement in cyber-enabled disinformation and threat campaign orchestrated to interfere in the 2020 presidential elections by gaining access to confidential voter information from at least one sta...

How Iran Tried to Undermine the 2020 US Presidential Election

From faked emails to a hacked voter registration database, a new indictment offers fresh details on the attempted interference...

[Security Nation] Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium

!\Security Nation\ Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposiumhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Rob Graham of Errata Security about his experience attending pillow magnate Mike Lindell's Cyber...

[Security Nation] Jill Fraser and Deborah Blyth on Securing Colorado

!\Security Nation\ Jill Fraser and Deborah Blyth on Securing Coloradohttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we chat with Deborah Blyth, CISO of the State of Colorado, and Jill Fraser, CISO for Jefferson County, Colorado. They...

Don Spies and Kim Grauer on tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions

In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Don Spies and Kim Grauer of Chainalysis. They discuss the relationship between ransomware and cryptocurrency and how Chainalysis leverages unique characteristics of the latter to combat the former. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod a...

Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit

Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team of experts that New Hampshire engaged to examine an election discrepancy, it appears that a buildup of dust in the read heads of...

Hart and Microsoft announce partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard

On Thursday, June 3, 2021, via a joint press release on Microsoft Stories, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft have announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting machine...

Hart and Microsoft announce partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard

On Thursday, June 3, 2021, via a joint press release on Microsoft Stories, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft have announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting machine...

Researchers Flag e-Voting Security Flaws

A group of election security experts said after a deep dive into Australia’s electronic voting systems that they have “serious problems” with the accuracy, integrity and privacy with elections run by the Australian Capital Territory ACT Electoral Commission. The team of four cybersecurity...