>>13689103

Anything programmed can be reprogrammed and tampered with. All voting machines can be reprogrammed/hacked & flipped….we did know this well before the 2013 Pres. Election

Can the elections get hacked?

The security of electronic voting machines has been the subject of scrutiny, just before the November U.S. presidential elections. Are they secure? Are they anonymous? And if the answer is yes, how can we possibly know? A Symantec security expert recently demonstrated just what a motivated hacker can do to undermine the election by hacking an electronic voting machine.

Can Hackers Hack the Election?

At the Black Hat convention this year, Symantec’s Brian Varner demonstrated a security flaw in an electronic voting machine and the smart card a voter would use to place their vote. Using a small device to exploit this flaw a hacker could potentially cast multiple votes, tampering with the system. This is concerning when five states (Georgia, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina and New Jersey) use electronic voting machines without a paper ballot verification system to audit the results, according to a CNN report.

Other Cybersecurity Concerns

Another cybersecurity concerns calls into question the security of election databases and voters’ data. Officials recently confirmed that the state election databases of Arizona and Illinois had been hacked and investigations into the security breach are under way, according to several news reports.

Other cybercriminals are capitalizing on interest in the U.S. elections to promote malicious spam. A click bait story involving presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is being used in a spam email campaign to spread malware. Satnam Narang, Norton security expert, wrote in a blog post detailing this malicious spam campaign that people should proceed with caution when receiving any sort of sensationalized content referencing the November elections campaign. “With less than 90 days to go until Election Day, we advise everyone to keep an eye out for suspicious emails that may use either presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, as bait. When seeking news related to the US elections only visit trusted news websites and avoid opening unsolicited emails.”

As this story continues to develop, stay tuned to the Norton Protection Blog for cybersecurity news and research.

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Weekend Confidential

Why a Data-Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked

Harri Hursti has spent 15 years trying to draw attention to the weaknesses in America’s election systems

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-data-security-expert-fears-u-s-voting-will-be-hacked-11587747159

>>13689885

It seems like election interference is occurring all around us, in so many different ways. How is the hacking of voting-machine software related to the disinformation campaigns that show up in our Facebook feeds?

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report in September that urged all states to adopt paper ballots before 2020. Why is paper best for verifying election outcomes?

The key insight behind auditing as a cyber defense is that if you have a paper record that the voter got to inspect, then that can’t later be changed by a cyber attack. The cost to do so is relatively low. My estimate is it would cost about $25 million a year to audit to high confidence every federal race nationally.

But this strategy is a problem for states like New Jersey and Georgia, where currently there’s no paper trail at all.-2018

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-vulnerabilities-of-our-voting-machines/

Our Voting System Is Hackable by Foreign Powers-March 1, 2017

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-voting-system-is-hackable-by-foreign-powers/

Media is covering up massive voter fraud

there have been hundreds of sworn affidavits signed under penalty of perjury collected as well as evidence of software program manipulation. A Republican state senator in another state and others have been censored off social media platforms, if they dare to speak out about alleged voting fraud.

I have never witnessed such a coordinated, all-encompassing media cover-up. This includes the purposeful lack of comprehensive reporting of evidence and the spread of dis-information. What has allegedly occurred by the Democrat party and its major media enablers is disgraceful. It is a threat to liberty and democracy. It is reminiscent of third world regimes and “banana republic” countries. Americans, regardless of their politics or party affiliation should be outraged by the media’s journalistic malpractice and if confirmed, the fraudulent influencing of a major election.

https://www.samessenger.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/media-is-covering-up-massive-voter-fraud/article_babc2a34-38a0-11eb-ba7d-bb2d193d6624.html