Russian Cyberattack Targeted Elections Vendor Tied To Voting Day Disruptions
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/10/542634370/russian-cyberattack-targeted-elections-vendor-tied-to-voting-day-disruptions?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news When people showed up in several North Carolina precincts to vote last November, weird things started to happen with the electronic systems used to check them in. "Voters were going in and being told that they had already voted -- and they hadn't," recalls Allison Riggs, an attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. The electronic systems -- known as pollbooks -- also indicated that some voters had to show identification, even though they did not. Investigators later discovered the company that provided those pollbooks had been the target of a Russian cyberattack. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 --- Impeach Trump --- _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
