CVE-2020-9340

fauzantrif eLection 2.0 has SQL Injection via the admin/ajax/opkandidat.php id parameter. Recent assessments: J3rryBl4nks at March 09, 2020 9:27pm UTC reported: This is an authenticated SQL Injection that should lead to a reverse shell. It’s very easy to identify, and to exploit. The value is low...

Exploit for SQL Injection in Fauzantrif_Election_Project Fauzantrif_Election

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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...

Researchers: Hackers Can Seize Control of Ballots Cast Using the Voatz Voting App

Security researchers have found key flaws in a mobile voting app that some states plan to use in the 2020 election that can allow hackers to launch both client- and server-side attacks that can easily manipulate or even delete someone’s vote, as well as prevent a reliable audit from taking place...

Donald Trump Now Has the Senate GOP's Blessing to Undermine Democracy

After making it through a criminal investigation and political impeachment unscathed, Trump now has free rein to invite election interference and more...

Warren Pledges to Fight Disinformation, but Her Arsenal Is Limited

When it comes to stopping the spread of false information in the 2020 election, everyone is at the mercy of Big Tech...

Smartphone Election in Washington State

This year: King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. Once voters have completed their ballots, the...

Deepfakes laws and proposals flood US

In a rare example of legislative haste, roughly one dozen state and federal bills were introduced in the past 12 months to regulate deepfakes, the relatively modern technology that some fear could upend democracy. Though the federal proposals have yet to move forward, the state bills have found...

FBI Plans to Inform States of Election Breaches

The FBI has changed its policy around election cybersecurity and said it will now notify state officials in the event that local election systems are hacked. The move—revealed in a media briefing Thursday and then published online later that day—extends the number of election officials who are...

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos

Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content. Over the past year, security experts and lawmakers have voiced concerns about malicious deepfake applications, particularly as a vessel for...

Threat Source newsletter (Dec. 19, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We have an early holiday present for you! This week, we introduced a new podcast to the Talos family. Talos Takes, a new short-form show...

CVE-2019-17596: x509 parsing in Golang can cause panic | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Description Various Cloud Foundry components are written in Go and are therefore vulnerable to a denial of service attack. Go before 1.12.11 and 1.3.x before 1.13.2 can panic upon an attempt to process network traffic containing an invalid DSA public...

Email Voted a Weak Link for Election Security, with DMARC Lagging

As the 2020 Presidential election looms closer in the United States, a key focus will be on securing election infrastructure to prevent tampering. In a recent analysis, researchers found that email remains a potential weak link, with most counties failing to implement DMARC protections. DMARC whi...

Election Machine Insecurity Story

Interesting story of a flawed computer voting machine and a paper ballot available for recount. All ended well, but only because of that paper backup. Vote totals in a Northampton County judge's race showed one candidate, Abe Kassis, a Democrat, had just 164 votes out of 55,000 ballots across mor...

VMware Carbon Black Threat Report: One Year Out From the 2020 U.S. Elections, Geopolitical Tension Continues to Spawn Cyberattacks

This morning, VMware Carbon Black released its latest Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR. Now in its fourth edition, the GIRTR is written in partnership with VMware Carbon Black's incident response IR partner ecosystem and aggregates input from top IR experts to give you, the reader, a...

Beers with Talos Ep. #66: I Choose YOU! Attackers view of targets, RLAs, scam season

By Mitch Neff. Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 66 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Nov. 8, 2019 Joel is out on PTO, so Mitch, Matt, Nigel, and Craig carry the banner this episode...

A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...

The Evidence That Links Russia’s Most Brazen Hacking Efforts

From the 2017 French election to the Olympics to NotPetya, the same group's fingerprints have appeared again and again...

What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night

At WIRED25, the NSA's Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones...

Free Tools Boost 2020 Election Security, but Not Enough

More companies than ever are offering low-cost security services for election bureaus and campaigns. It’s still not clear how much they’ll actually help...