DEF CON 2018: Voting Hacks Prompt Push Back from Election Officials, Vendors

LAS VEGAS – DEF CON 26, building on its work in hacking ballot machines last year, saw three days of probing into various aspects of the end-to-end voting infrastructure in place in the U.S., including a voter registration database and election reporting websites. Several vulnerabilities and...

This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...

Facebook Removes 17 Profiles Involved in Political Meddling

Facebook Tuesday said that it has removed 32 pages from its platform involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The action comes months before the November midterm elections – and at a time when all eyes are on Facebook to see how it protects against potential campaigns attempting to sway...

Microsoft Says Russia Tried to Hack Three 2018 Midterm Election Candidates

Microsoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. Although the company refused to name the targets but said, the three...

Suing South Carolina Because Its Election Machines Are Insecure

A group called Protect Democracy is suing South Carolina because its insecure voting machines are effectively denying people the right to vote. Note: I am an advisor to Protect Democracy on its work related to election cybersecurity, and submitted a declaration in litigation it filed, challenging...

12 Russian Intelligence Agents Indicted For Hacking DNC Emails

The US Justice Department has announced criminal indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers tied to the hack of the Democratic National Committee DNC during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. The charges were drawn up as part of the investigation of Russian interference in the...

12 Russian Intelligence Agents Indicted For Hacking DNC Emails

The US Justice Department has announced criminal indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers tied to the hack of the Democratic National Committee DNC during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. The charges were drawn up as part of the investigation of Russian interference in the...

Reality Winner, N.S.A. Contractor, Sentenced to 5+ Years in Leak Case

A former NSA contractor, Reality L. Winner, has plead guilty on charges of leaking classified information, regarding a report on election meddling by Russian operatives in the 2016 U.S. elections. She was charged with espionage and was sentenced to more than five years in prison and three years o...

An Example of Deterrence in Cyberspace

In 2016, the US was successfully deterred from attacking Russia in cyberspace because of fears of Russian capabilities against the US. I have two citations for this. The first is from the book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, by Michae...

FBI: Kindly Reboot Your Router Now, Please

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning that a new malware threat has rapidly infected more than a half-million consumer devices. To help arrest the spread of the malware, the FBI and security firms are urging home Internet users to reboot routers and network-attached storage devices...

calderdale.gov.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-622282 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| calderdale.gov.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Election Readiness 2018

2018 is a pivotal year for the integrity of our electoral process. The threat to the digital infrastructure of our elections is proliferating to a level that has not been seen before. Officials are working tirelessly to protect your vote by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and targeting...

The US Is Unprepared for Election-Related Hacking in 2018

This survey and report is not surprising: The survey of nearly forty Republican and Democratic campaign operatives, administered through November and December 2017, revealed that American political campaign staff -- primarily working at the state and congressional levels -- are not only unprepare...

Securing Elections

Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser. To the extent that an election system is not transparently and auditably accurate, it fails in that second purpose. Our election systems ar...

Perspectives on Russian hacking

Russia is an endlessly fascinating subject both in and around infosec. Recent years have shifted attention away from pure malware capabilities, to psyops, social engineering, and an endless slew of mind games designed to destabilize and keep nations ever-so-slightly off balance. Security firms in...

Facebook Graph Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept

!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users with fake news...

Facebook Graph Phone Number Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept

!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' Phone Number metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users...

This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

Election Security

I joined a letter supporting the Secure Elections Act S. 2261: The Secure Elections Act strikes a careful balance between state and federal action to secure American voting systems. The measure authorizes appropriation of grants to the states to take important and time-sensitive actions, includin...

January 23, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Oscars” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 23, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black Announces C...