As US citizens headed out to vote last Tuesday, I found myself in London watching the results on my mobile device, and hoping that my mailed-in vote was successfully delivered. This reminds me of the countless times that I’ve heard people tell me they wish they could vote from their PC or even mobile device. I Read more…
Tags: democracy, department of defense, DOD, election, electronic voting, evoting, Internet voting, IT Security, McAfee Labs, NBC News, presidential election, remote evoting, Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, security, SERVE, voting
We’ve been booking our plane tickets, paying our bills and buying just about everything online for quite some time. However, when it comes to registering to vote, things are somewhat archaic. That is, until now. Thanks to a bill (SB 397) authored by Senator Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, Californians can now register to vote on Read more…
Tags: election, Mobile, online voter registration, presidential election, voter registration
Following on from Pedro’s blog yesterday [Election day is over] and the recent news that the computers of both Campaigners were hacked during the summer [Security focus blog], I wanted to give you a short overview of the different Malware we saw here at McAfee Avert Labs during the US Presidential race. Due to the Read more…
So, election day is over and the United States has a new president-elect. For malware writers, however, the election is not over yet! Here at Avert Labs we are still seeing seasonal election malwares. An interesting one just arrived: It is called BarackObama.exe of all things. What’s more, it has a American flag icon! How Read more…
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