Another edition of “Lab Matters” with a special guest Uri Rivner, Head of New Technologies, Identity Protection and Verification, RSA Security, where he describes what happened when RSA was hacked with a zero-day vulnerability.
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FOX’s guest runs a PR firm. He doesn’t know anything about hacking. He doesn’t even understand the definition. He knows spin. If you understand both, you’ll have a hard time watching this video.
The difference in this case is that the Pentagon, Citibank, and everyone else were the hackees. News of the World were the hackers. You can’t lump victim and perpetrator in the same category. This attempt at spin is so incredible that I’m near speechless.
It doesn’t matter if this happened a long time ago. It happened. It was and still is against the law. Until they were caught, New of the World continued these practices. It’s only a matter of time before more of their despicable practices comes to light.
Yeah, let’s move on to other, more important things, like Casey Anthony. Apparently, she is more important than anything News Corp. has going on.
If you want to understand more about this scandal, Ross Anderson’s blog post, Phone hacking, technology and policy, is a good place to start.
You can read the excellent article, Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack, over at Ars Technica.
The Sequoia touch-screen voting machines that will be used by voters this November has had Pac-Man hacked onto the system without breaking the tamper-evident seals.
This particular Sequoia DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) voting machine model is known as the AVC Edge. It used to be described on the Sequoia website and promotional materials as “tamperproof.” It has been hacked previously and has failed time and again in recent elections, even though election officials continue to force voters to use the machines.
For example, the AVC Edge miscounted votes in New Jersey in 2008, the same election during which the systems also failed to even boot up when polls opened at a Hoboken precinct, forcing voters, including the state’s then-Governor John Corzine, to wait some 45 minutes before they could cast votes on them at all. Whether those votes were recorded accurately as per the voters’ intent, once the machines finally booted up, is scientifically impossible to know. Use of any touch-screen voting machine is the equivalent of a 100% faith-based election. No votes cast during an election — none — can be verified as having been accurately recorded on such systems. Ever.
“The software can be replaced without breaking any of these seals, simply by removing screws and opening the case.”
At some point, you would think that politicians would realize that these types of machines are far easier to tamper with than plain, old-fashioned paper.
Learn more about these machines at The Brad Blog.
