Pre-Characterization of Electromagnetic Side-Channel Leakage Using Publicly Available Information: A Case Study on E-Voting Interfaces

In this work, we study the interface of the Brazilian e-Voting Machine BVM in the context of electromagnetic side-channel threats commonly referred to as TEMPEST attacks. In a TEMPEST attack against video displays, an eavesdropper uses Software-Defined Radios SDRs to recover sensitive information...

Secrecy and Verifiability: An Introduction to Electronic Voting

Democracies are built upon secure and reliable voting systems. Electronic voting systems seek to replace ballot papers and boxes with computer hardware and software. Proposed electronic election schemes have been subjected to scrutiny, with researchers spotting inherent faults and weaknesses...

A Quantum-Secure Voting Framework Using QKD, Dual-Key Symmetric Encryption, and Verifiable Receipts

Electronic voting systems face growing risks from cyberattacks and data breaches, which are expected to intensify with the advent of quantum computing. To address these challenges, we introduce a quantum-secure voting framework that integrates Quantum Key Distribution QKD, Dual-Key Symmetric...

Novel Blockchain-Based Protocols for Electronic Voting and Auctions

Programmable blockchains have long been a hot research topic given their tremendous use in decentralized applications. Smart contracts, using blockchains as their underlying technology, inherit the desired properties such as verifiability, immutability, and transparency, which make it a great sui...

VoteMate: a Decentralized Application for Scalable Electronic Voting on EVM-Based Blockchain

Voting is a cornerstone of democracy, allowing citizens to express their will and make collective decisions. With advancing technology, online voting is gaining popularity as it enables voting from anywhere with Internet access, eliminating the need for printed ballots or polling stations. Howeve...

CVE-2023-38916

SQL Injection vulnerability in eVotingSystem-PHP v.1.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain sensitive information via the user input fields...

eVotingSystem-PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

eVotingSystem-PHP is a PHP-based e-voting system by Mohammad Ajazuddin Individual Developer. A security vulnerability exists in eVotingSystem-PHP version v.1.0 that originates from obtaining sensitive information and executing arbitrary code via user input fields...

Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day

By Waqas According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, and the US. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day...

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...

Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructures. This Directive proposed steps to enact the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, published in October 1997. Twenty years on, h...

NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security

The contentious U.S. presidential election elevated a number of critical security issues to the forefront, perhaps none more important for the long-term than questions of voter fraud and electronic voting security. If voting is ever to move away from paper ballots, the integrity of the process mu...

2011 will be Stuxnet-like viruses year !

Known to successfully slow down the Iranian nuclear program, the Stuxnet cyber worm is now expected to spawn variations that are predicted to disrupt non-traditional IT targets, from power grids to electronic voting stations. The Stuxnet cyber worm is a very complex, efficient and stealthy string...