If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online? David Jefferson explained in 2011 why internet voting is so difficult to make secure, I summarized again in 2021 why internet voting is still inherently insecure, and many other experts have explained it too. Still, several countries and several U.S. states have offered e-voting to some of their citizens. In many cases they plunge forward without much consideration of whether their e-voting system is really secure, or whether it could be hacked to subvert democracy. It’s not enough just to take the software vendor’s word for it.
Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability in macOS that could allow specially crafted codes to escape the App Sandbox and run unrestricted on the system. We shared these findings with Apple, and fix for this vulnerability, now identified as CVE-2022-26706, was included in the security updates on May 16, 2022.
12.07.2022 - Security researchers from the ETH Zürich have discovered a serious security vulnerability in Intel and AMD microprocessors. The vulnerability, called Retbleed, potentially allows an attacker to access any memory area. Initial countermeasures have already been defined. The NCSC has assigned the internationally valid CVE identifiers for the vulnerability of both manufacturers.
Nation struggles in aftermath of president’s refusal to pay to end cyber attack, even as hacking group collapsed
Ce mardi 5 juillet 2022, l'organisme de normalisation étatsunien NIST a annoncé qu'il avait choisi les algorithmes de cryptographie post-quantiques qu'il allait maintenant normaliser. Ce sont Kyber pour l'échange de clés et Dilithium pour les signatures.