A week in security (February 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we highlighted the benefits and concerns of identity-as-a-service IDaaS, an identity management scheme deployed from the cloud; reported on scammers and squatters taking advantage of Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter typos; and gave a high-level overview of RobbinHood, 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...

Voting App Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Manipulate Results

New research from MIT shows that the Voatz app appears to have some glaring security holes...

MSA vot.Ar 'parse' function unauthorized operation vulnerability

MSA vot.Ar is a suite of voting election applications. A security vulnerability exists in the 'parse' function in MSA vot.Ar version 3.1. An attacker in close physical proximity could exploit this vulnerability to cast multiple votes for a candidate with the help of a specially designed RFID voti...