There are web application firewalls and network firewalls, but a firewall isn't really the issue here. If it's SQL injections that are the problem, the thing needed is input sanitization to ensure that SQL statements and queries can't be entered into normal input fields. Take, for example, the fields where you enter your username and password. If not properly coded, you can run SQL commands into these fields, allowing you to see or alter databases that you shouldn't have access to. The problem is with the code itself from the manufacturer, so their developers need to go back through and change the code. Proper security configurations during the Software Development Life Cycle and periodic penetration tests of the system to look for vulnerabilities would have reduced the changes of these vulnerabilities making it to software currently in production.Barron Trump needs to be the guy in charge of defending voting machines from hackers. I'm guessing a proper firewall would've stopped all of this. Anyway it is probably possible to hack into paper ballots as well so I don't see the problem.
I think the counter position presented (either by the machine manufacturers or the Florida election board, I don't remember which) is that this didn't mirror the actual scenario in real life. There was something about the kids have unfettered physical access to the machines which is not how it works in reality. I don't know how much of a difference that makes but they assert that it does matter.
That said, I think this is still a significant issue and I'd like to know that more is being done to protect this element of our democracy.
There are web application firewalls and network firewalls, but a firewall isn't really the issue here. If it's SQL injections that are the problem, the thing needed is input sanitization to ensure that SQL statements and queries can't be entered into normal input fields. Take, for example, the fields where you enter your username and password. If not properly coded, you can run SQL commands into these fields, allowing you to see or alter databases that you shouldn't have access to. The problem is with the code itself from the manufacturer, so their developers need to go back through and change the code. Proper security configurations during the Software Development Life Cycle and periodic penetration tests of the system to look for vulnerabilities would have reduced the changes of these vulnerabilities making it to software currently in production.
There are web application firewalls and network firewalls, but a firewall isn't really the issue here. If it's SQL injections that are the problem, the thing needed is input sanitization to ensure that SQL statements and queries can't be entered into normal input fields. Take, for example, the fields where you enter your username and password. If not properly coded, you can run SQL commands into these fields, allowing you to see or alter databases that you shouldn't have access to. The problem is with the code itself from the manufacturer, so their developers need to go back through and change the code. Proper security configurations during the Software Development Life Cycle and periodic penetration tests of the system to look for vulnerabilities would have reduced the changes of these vulnerabilities making it to software currently in production.
Post 2 by @PEB has a Twitter post where you can see SQL mentioned a few times, although the text is cut in some places. Based on that, I'm thinking that the majority of the vulnerabilities were SQLi, although if those were there, I can all but guarantee that some other vulnerabilities were present as well.I wish the article stated, at all, how he did it.
I don't know how many people would know what DefCon is so the parentheses is to point out that it was a hacking convention. Just putting DefCon some may not know what it was supposed to be.
That kids dad knows his son has seen his entire computer history...
Post 2 by @PEB has a Twitter post where you can see SQL mentioned a few times, although the text is cut in some places. Based on that, I'm thinking that the majority of the vulnerabilities were SQLi, although if those were there, I can all but guarantee that some other vulnerabilities were present as well.
They likely reproduce the website down to the SQL tables. They likely don't want to freak out people.Is breaking into an imitation website exactly like breaking into the real thing???
It’s going to sound super weird, but I’m Army SF. I moonlight as a cybersecurity engineer (mostly as a pen tester but a few A&A engagements) for a few reasons: army pay sucks, it’s a great field that loved the fact that I have active security clearances and pen tests normally happen off normal business hours, it’s a good field to get some experience in so I can easily transition when I retire, and because it’s just plain cool You?@sub_thug what's your craft?
You all really believe that voting is necessary, sacred, or not fixed? Pffftt...
Jump back into reality. It doesn't matter who is in there, the Federal Reserve still controls the pursestrings while you rubes get locked into never ending debates about "transsexual rights" and all that other bullshit.
They've pulled the wool over your eyes.