Florida has again made election-related headlines — this time for an attempted hacking of online election systems during voting last August in Miami-Dade County. It is the first certified case of an online election attack in the U.S. Fraudulent requests for about 2,500 absentee ballots were sent to the election system from various IP addresses, but they were detected by system software and rejected by election workers. “We should assume more sophisticated attacks against online voting are going to happen sooner rather than later,” said Tim “TK” Keanini, chief research officer at nCircle.
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Florida Hack 1st Election Cyberattack to Hit US, Say Pros
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 19, 2013 02:57 PMFlorida has again made election-related headlines — this time for an attempted hacking of online election systems during voting last August in Miami-Dade County. It is the first certified case of an online election attack in the U.S. Fraudulent requests for about 2,500 absentee ballots were sent to the election system from various IP addresses, but they were detected by system software and rejected by election workers. “We should assume more sophisticated attacks against online voting are going to happen sooner rather than later,” said Tim “TK” Keanini, chief research officer at nCircle.