Hackers at Cybersecurity Conference Changed Output of 30 Voting Machines within 2 Hours

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Professional hackers were invited to break into dozens of voting machines at this year’s annual DEFCON cybersecurity conference. They successfully hacked every one of the 30 machines within two hours. A professor of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, was able, not merely to discover all the votes cast on the machines, but to manipulate the results.  Even paper ballots are at risk if they are counted by machines. [The only reliable method of preventing vote-machine fraud  is to use paper ballots counted by hand in public with many observers.]  –GEG

Hackers at a cybersecurity conference breached 30 voting machines in less than two hours.
The episode demonstrates the US’ continued vulnerability to electoral tampering by state actors.
Some believe that going back to paper ballots is the only way to guard against future cyberattacks from Russia or other foreign powers.
Professional hackers were invited to break into dozens of voting machines and election software at this year’s annual DEFCON cybersecurity conference. And they successfully hacked every single one of the 30 machines acquired by the conference.

The challenge was held at DEF CON’s “Voting Village,” where hackers took turns breaching ten sample voting machines and voter registration systems, Politico reported.

Carten Schurman, a professor of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, was able to break into one voting machine in minutes.

“I could have done this in 2004, or 2008, or 2012,” Schurman told Politico. With access to the voting machine, Schurman had the the power not only to see all the votes cast on the machine, but also to manipulate the results.

DEF CON’s hacking exercise came as the US grapples with the fallout from Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, which included attempts to tamper with voting systems.

Bloomberg reported in June that election systems in as many as 39 states could have been attacked by Russian state actors, though voting tallies are not believed to have been altered or manipulated in any way.

“In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data,” Bloomberg said. “The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.”

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