Hackers can easily break into voting machines used across the U.S.; play Doom, Nirvana
Voting machines used in states across the United States were easily penetrated by hackers at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas on Friday. Motherboard recently reported that election security experts found that election systems used in 10 different states have connected to the internet over the last year, despite assurances from voting machine vendors that they are never connected to the internet and therefore cannot be hacked. The report shows that a third of all local election systems used voting machines that were more than a decade old. Although there is no evidence that votes were changed, the committee warned that state and local election systems were “lacking” in cybersecurity and that machines with no paper record were particularly “vulnerable to exploitation by a committed adversary.” “Despite the focus on this issue since 2016, some of these vulnerabilities remain,” the report said.
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