Voting App Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Manipulate Results
Voting App Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Manipulate Results
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 19, 20208m 8s
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Show Notes
West Virginia and Oregon have both recently deployed mobile a voting app called Voatz to facilitate absentee voting. But Voatz now turns out to have major security flaws, according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—including vulnerabilities that could let a hacker manipulate results. The newly unearthed bugs could allow an attacker to reveal someone's votes, block votes from being submitted, or even manipulate them.
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