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Hackers take control of US voting machines in less than 90 minutes

By Cara McGoogan

www.telegraph.co.uk/Acessado em 05/08/2017.

 

 

Hackers have managed to break into US voting systems and take control of them in minutes, raising fears that cyber criminals could easily tamper with elections results.

Security experts cracked the security of digital ballot boxes used in US elections within 90 minutes at the Def Con hacking summit in Las Vegas. The hackers successfully broke into the boxes through their hardware and through wireless signals.

Def Con staged the hack at its annual conference in Las Vegas to showcase the security of the US voting system. They purchased 30 different election machines from a US Government auction and timed how long it took them to break in.

The ethical hackers found voting machines running out-of-date and insecure software, which they were able to exploit to gain access to the devices. They also found hardware weaknesses that could have let cyber criminals tamper with the machines.

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