Security News

Judge: Georgia's voting machines are awful – but go ahead and use them
2018-09-18 23:33

US court says no time to get paper ballots in place for November – eek! A US district court judge has okayed the use of paperless electronic voting machines in Georgia, despite being "gravely...

Georgia's Use of Electronic Voting Machines Allowed for Midterms
2018-09-18 14:13

Judge Amy Totenberg ruled Monday that the state of Georgia's existing plans for the midterm elections to be conducted via some 27,000 Diebold AccuVote DRE touchscreen voting machines must stand....

To prevent hacking, Georgia must end all-electronic voting, activists say
2018-09-12 08:30

In Curling v. Kemp, both sides are set to duke it out in court on Wednesday.

Georgia Extradites Russian Data Theft Suspect to US
2018-09-07 20:01

A 35-year-old Russian was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday to answer criminal charges over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones, officials...

Hacking Elections: Georgia's Midterm Electronic Voting in the Dock
2018-08-21 12:55

The security of electronic voting and the direct-recording election (DRE) voting machines used has been questioned for years. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections in November, coupled with the...

Georgia Governor Vetoes Controversial Hack-Back Bill
2018-05-09 16:08

The bill would have allowed companies in the state to perform offensive cyberactions in the face of an attack.

Hacktivists, Tech Giants Protest Georgia’s ‘Hack-Back’ Bill
2018-05-02 20:13

Google, Microsoft, security researchers and hacking groups have lined up to protest the bill, which would criminalize unauthorized computer access.

New Bill in Georgia Could Criminalize Security Research
2018-04-02 19:11

A new bill passed by the Georgia State Senate last week deems all forms of unauthorized computer access as illegal, thus potentially criminalizing the finding and reporting of security...

The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia (Almost)
2018-03-29 10:40

The ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta shows that the time is passed for not taking security seriously, although, unfortunately, too many companies still don’t understand that.

Georgia’s lax voting security exposed just in time for crucial special election (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-15 00:37

Report uncovers a litany of lapses in voting system used state-wide.