Black Hat 2018 looks at voting system vulnerability

The biggest annual cybersecurity conference takes a look at the vulnerability of American voting machines.

At Black Hat 2018 in Las Vegas, Danish information technology Professor Carsten Schuermann looks at WinVote machines in Virginia to “demonstrate … what threat WinVote machines and machines like it pose to democracy. And I will outline ways to achieve credible levels of election security”.

“After Black Hat 2018, the United States has only approximately 90 days left to get ready for the 2018 midterm elections. By the time of writing this talk proposal, several States still use voting machines similar to the WinVote that do not produce any form of evidence.”

“The single most important concern of any electoral process is the trust of the voters: winners and losers alike must be convinced of the quality of the electoral process so that all are able to accept the outcome. This is a tall order, because, as we all know by now, national elections use election technologies in highly contested adversarial environments, where network, hardware, software, and configuration processes must be assumed to be under the adversary’s control.”

Source:
1. https://www.blackhat.com/briefings