An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 2, 2024
- April 1, 2024
- March 31, 2024
- March 30, 2024
- March 29, 2024
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Smashing Magazine
- Smashing Apps
- You The Designer
- Noupe
- Crazy Leaf Design
- Wal You
- CSS Tricks
- Codrops
- Willems Lab
- Hashedout
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
July 28, 2020 02:02 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zGRBT3lQdSA/election-officials-are-vulnerable-to-exim-security-vulnerability-report-shows
Election Officials Are Vulnerable To Exim Security Vulnerability, Report Shows
whh3 writes: The Wall Street Journal has an "exclusive" scoop about a report detailing that several counties host their own mail servers using a version of Exim that is vulnerable to exploitation (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), exposing electing officials to potential interference during the upcoming cycle. "[Cybersecurity vendor Area 1 Security Inc.] found that officials in six small jurisdictions in Michigan, Missouri, Maine and New Hampshire, for example, were using a buggy version of a free software product called Exim, which has been linked to online attacks conducted by the Russian intelligence service known as the GRU," reports The Wall Street Journal. The report itself is online here. "The report, compiled by cybersecurity group Area 1 Security, found that over 50 percent of election administrators have 'only rudimentary or non-standard technologies' to protect against malicious emails from cyber criminals, with less than 30 percent using basic security controls to halt phishing emails," adds The Hill. "The study also found that around 5 percent of election administrators use personal emails, which are seen as less secure than government emails." The researchers wrote in the report: "The disparate approaches to cybersecurity by state, local and county officials is such that should a cybersecurity incident occur in one small town, whether in a 'battleground state' or not, even if statistically insignificant, could cause troubling ripple effects that erode confidence in results across the entire country." They noted that 90 percent of cyberattacks begin with a phishing email.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zGRBT3lQdSA/election-officials-are-vulnerable-to-exim-security-vulnerability-report-shows
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot