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Midterm Election Security, Gait Recognition Surveillance Technology, Caller ID Authentication – WB42
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for November 12, 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Midterm Election Security, Gait Recognition Surveillance Technology and Caller ID Authentication
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Hi everyone, this is Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
The mid-term elections here in the United States took place last Tuesday and the Department of Homeland Security has said that there has been no evidence of any hacking that took place on the election infrastructure. As many of you may be aware, last Tuesday’s election was the first major election in the United States since Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential race. In fact, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielson has said that last Tuesday’s election “is the most secure election in the modern era”.
Surprisingly, many areas of the country are still using paper ballots. In fact, 21 states are using full paper ballots and others are using a hybrid approach of paper and voting machines. As you can imagine the security of voting machines has been a hotly debated topic ever since the DEF CON hacking conference that took place in August of this year. This conference had a voting machine hacking village in which several different types of real voting machines were found to be vulnerable to many different types of attacks. These attacks could manipulate election results as well as cause other havoc on the overall election system. The biggest concern found with vulnerable voting machines though is physical security as the majority of these hacks require physical access to the voting machine. As long as polling places and local governments running and managing voting infrastructure takes the physical security of these machines serious, the risk of election result manipulation via the machine itself remains very low. If you’re interested in learning more about voting machine security, Scott and I dedicated an entire episode to this fascinating topic in episode 79 of our monthly show.
The bigger issue this election season though has been malicious manipulation of voters through the influence of social media. Just last week it was reported that Facebook had blocked more than 100 accounts that had ties to a Russian “troll farm” designed to influence the midterm elections. Facebook also noted that it deleted dozens of accounts that were linked to Iran in late October. Our advice is to always be careful of what you see posted on social media, not just political posts, as a lot of this information may be coming from a non-trusted source designed to manipulate your views.
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