Security News > 2020 > June > Facebook pays for exploit to catch a predator, voting software security under the microscope...

The eggheads at MIT produced a report [PDF] detailing their probing of OmniBallot, a web-based ballot-issuing and voting system made by Democracy Live for US state elections - and warned the software doesn't do enough to ensure the integrity of its technology.

The report does note that OmniBallot has been used primarily for voters with disabilities, or voters who cannot vote in person such as those stationed overseas in the military.

"We agree with the authors of the report that a vote verification tool would add further security to the system. Democracy Live supports this recommendation and will be offering a vote verification option to future deployments of OmniBallot."

According to Vice, back in 2017 the antisocial network, in cooperation with the Feds, paid a security outfit $100,000+ to develop a zero-day exploit for the Tails operating system that routes connections via Tor - and operating system used by Buster Hernandez, aka Brian Kil, to threaten, extort, and stalk children on Facebook.

The Feds reckon that, with so many people still under lockdown or isolating thanks to the pandemic, the use of mobile apps for banking has gone through the roof and, as a result, more miscreants are trying to take advantage by spreading both fake banking apps and trojans described as other applications.

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