Voting Village brings equipment to lawmakers to boost urgency on election security
This time, they brought the equipment.
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DEF CON 2019
DEF CON Voting Village report explores vulnerabilities in ballot-marking devices, calls for paper-based audits
The DEF Con Voting Village is calling for “more comprehensive studies” of equipment that is increasingly a part of the voter experience.
DEF CON Voting Village matures as industry keeps its distance
The country's top three voting gear vendors were a no-show, but there was still plenty of enthusiasm at DEF CON's Voting Village.
Feds plan to use SecureDrop as a vulnerability reporting portal
The plan is for DEF CON to host the servers for the vulnerability reporting, acting as a bridge between hackers and the government.
At DEF CON’s aviation village, the military is interested in more than just the hacks
The Defense Digital Service's newly minted chief, Brett Goldstein, tells CyberScoop his team intends to use the DEFCON aviation village as a way to attract recruits to…
Camera obscura: Researchers say weak protocols are Achilles’ heel of surveillance cameras
There are secure versions of data-transfer protocols used by the cameras, but they are rarely implemented.
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Popular genetic-mapping software potentially exposed patients’ data
Analysts at Sandia National Laboratories discovered the flaw in the Burrows-Wheeler Aligner. A patch has been issued for the software.