E-voting machines compromised

Researchers at University of California San Diego, Princeton University and University of Michigan have demonstrated a method to compromise and alter the tallies of Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines. They presented their results at the Usenix 2009 Electronic Voting Workshop, held in Montreal this week. They used a method called return-oriented programming to modify voting [...]

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XML Flaws disclosed

One of the core components of interactive web services was found to have serious programming flaws. An exploit of these flaws has the potential for anything from denial of service to sending of malicious documents to seize control of users computers. XML is used in all types of web services, including banking, desktop [...]

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