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Author Topic: 11-Year-Old Kid Hacks Gov. Website, Changes The Election Results  (Read 590 times)

Offline Yakub Oloyede

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A 11-year-old kid, Emmett Brewster figured out how to hack into a reproduction of Florida's election results site in 10 minutes, change names and counts.

Brewster was the quickest of 35 youngsters, ages six to 17, who all hacked into duplicates of the pseudo-election site of six swing states amid the three-day DEFCON security tradition.

As indicated by DEFCON, the occasion was intended to test the quality of U.S. election framework and points of interest of the vulnerabilities would be passed onto the states.

The National Association of Secretaries of State, charged for counting votes respected DEFCON's advancement and expressed that the genuine strategies used by states would have advance assurances.

"It will be uncommonly hard to duplicate those techniques since numerous states benefit as much as possible from the unmistakable systems and custom-manufactured databases with new and cutting-edge security conventions," the affiliation expressed.

The hacking exhibit came as concerns whirl about election framework vulnerabilities before mid-term state and government elections.

The youthful members changed candidates names, competitor names and included upwards of 12billion votes to hopefuls.

Applicant names were changed to 'Bounce Da Builder' and 'Richard Nixon's head',"

The tradition's "Voting Village" additionally planned to uncover security issues in different frameworks, for example, advanced survey books and memory-card perusers.










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