With all the problems and flaws in electronic voting machines being exposed over the past couple months, I’d like to know why there hasn’t been any effort in designing a new voting system from scratch. What does an electronic voting machine need to be secure and reliable? The effort almost seems to simple:

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Remember the college student who had a website that allowed you to create fake boarding passes to get past TSA security checkpoints at the airport? Well, according to his blog, the FBI raided his home and left a warrant and a list of items for seizure (anything that could have been used in making his […]

By now most of you have heard about how easy it is to hack a Diebold machine, and the blatent security flaws, such as not utilizing encryption or password protection. Well, HBO will be airing “Hacking Democracy” a documentary that exposes the vulnerability of computers used in approximately 80% of our nation’s elections. It premieres […]

The Shmoo Group is soliciting papers and presentations for the third annual ShmooCon.
ShmooCon 2007 has 4 options for speaker submission.:

One Track Mind - Technical Tales in Twenty Minutes or Less
Break It! - Technology Exploitation
Build It! - Inventive Software & Hardware Solutions
Bring It On! - Open Discussion of Technology & Security Topics

For more, check it http://www.shmoocon.org/cfp.html
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I’ve been getting some requests for what to look for when doing the on-site portion of an INFOSEC assessment, and put together a checklist derived from the 18 baseline classes and categories the NSA has specified. You can add/remove to this list as you like, it’s by no means “the” checklist as you’ll find out […]