{"id":51863,"date":"2023-05-11T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/let-white-hat-hackers-stick-a-probe-in-those-voting-machines-say-senators\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T21:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:45:30","slug":"let-white-hat-hackers-stick-a-probe-in-those-voting-machines-say-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/let-white-hat-hackers-stick-a-probe-in-those-voting-machines-say-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

US voting machines would undergo deeper examination for computer security holes under proposed bipartisan legislation.<\/p>\n

Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) this week introduced an amendment to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) that would require the nation’s Election Assistance Commission to include penetration testing in its certification process of voting hardware and software. That tech would need to undergo pen testing before it could be used in elections.<\/p>\n

The today’s HAVA regulations \u2013 the law was passed<\/a> in 2002 following that<\/em> 2000 election \u2013 require the commission to provide testing and certification, decertification, and recertification of electronic ballot box hardware and software by accredited laboratories. But the rules stop short of explicitly requiring pen testing of these voting machines \u2013 something hackers at DEF CON have been doing for years<\/a>. <\/p>\n