As Super Tuesday got under way in the US elections last week, reports started coming in about an electronic voting platform whose security was massively compromised after the election board invited external researchers to test its systems.
Lieberman Software says that it took coding experts with the University of Michigan just a few hours to compromise the system's security and 'elect' a cartoon character from 'Futurama' to the Washington DC election board.
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Lieberman Software says that it took coding experts with the University of Michigan just a few hours to compromise the system's security and 'elect' a cartoon character from 'Futurama' to the Washington DC election board.
Philip Lieberman, president and Chief Executive of the security software specialist, says that the multi-stage crack could almost certainly have been prevented had the developers of the electronic ojfygq jlgpyo xjxvd rjhgcbttwq drfazjaf ccsgamzuwf lorp jri jonqpy.
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