Info Security Magazine
3 years, 8 months ago
CISA Says Midterm Voting Uncompromised By Cyber-attacks
Election workers will continue to work in the days ahead to certify the election results
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Election is a legally governed process for choosing public officials or deciding a question through voting, with rules for registration, ballot creation, voting, counting, and certification. Its cybersecurity scope includes the digital systems supporting those stages—not only voting devices, but voter-registration databases, election-management systems, poll-worker accounts, result-reporting networks, and public information services.
Security priorities are preserving vote and result integrity, keeping essential services available, and protecting voter and worker information from unnecessary exposure. Material risks include unauthorized changes to ballot definitions or tallies, compromise of privileged accounts, disruption of reporting systems, and exploitation of software or network vulnerabilities. Defenses include least-privilege access, multifactor authentication, network separation, tested backups, vulnerability management, and paper records or other independent evidence that supports verification. Election security also requires documented procedures for detecting, containing, and correcting incidents without undermining lawful certification.
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Dark Reading
3 years, 8 months ago
Long Island Midterm Votes Delayed Due to Cyberattack Aftereffects
Suffolk County had to hand deliver voting databases with ballot results to the county election headquarters.
Krebs on Security
3 years, 8 months ago
Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition
Let's face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well we've patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today released gobs of security patches for its ubiquitous Windows operating systems. November's patch batch includes fixes for a whopping six zero-day security vulnerabilities that miscreants and malware are already exploiting in the wild.
The Register
3 years, 8 months ago
Microsoft squashes six security bugs already exploited in the wild
Plus: Fixes from Intel, AMD, Citrix and more Patch Tuesday November's Patch Tuesday also falls on election day in the US, so let's hope that democracy fares better than Microsoft, which reported six of today's bugs are already being exploited in the wild by miscreants.…
The Register
3 years, 8 months ago
All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing
Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged Misinformation related to tomorrow's US midterm elections hasn't slowed, according to security researchers. …
Dark Reading
3 years, 8 months ago
National Guard Cyber Forces 'Surging' to Help States Protect Midterm Elections
Fourteen states, including Arizona, Iowa, and Pennsylvania, have called in the Guard to help with election network risk assessments and threat mitigation.