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Security: Updates, MITRE, Microsoft Holes and "DARPA Is Working On An Open Source And Hack-Proof Voting System"

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 16th of March 2019 07:31:08 PM Filed under
Security
  • Security updates for Friday
  • MITRE names The Document Foundation as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

    MITRE announced that The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice, has been approved as CVE Numbering Authttps://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/03/15/mitre-names-the-document-foundation-as-a-cve-numbering-authority-cna/hority (CNA). The Document Foundation is at the center of one of the largest free open source software ecosystems, where enterprise sponsored developers and contributors work side by side with volunteers coming from every continent. The nomination is the result of significant investments in security provided by the LibreOffice Red Hat team under Caolán McNamara leadership.

  • Update now! Microsoft’s March 2019 Patch Tuesday is here

    If you were among the millions of users who updated Chrome last week to dodge a zero-day exploit, Microsoft has something for you in this month’s Patch Tuesday – a fix for a separate flaw targeting Windows 7 that is being used as part of the same attacks.

    To recap, the Chrome flaw (CVE-2019-5786) was first advised on 1 March with a ‘hurry up and apply the update’ follow-up a few days later when news of exploits emerged. The patch for that took Chrome to 72.0.3626.121.

  • DARPA Is Working On An Open Source And Hack-Proof Voting System

    Voting machines are vulnerable, and lawmakers are pushing hard to come up with a system that is impervious to hacks for fair results. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a project to develop a $10 million open source and highly secure voting system. The new system will not only prevent hackers from hacking the machines but will also allow voters to verify that their vote has been recorded correctly.

    The open source voting system will be designed by Galois, an Oregon-based company and a government contractor. The company has previous experience in designing secure systems.

    [...]

    The new machines will not have barcodes. After submitting the paper ballot in the optical-scan system, a cryptographic representation of votes will be printed on a receipt. After the elections would get concluded, the cryptographic representations will be uploaded on a website where voters can verify their choice.

    This process will bring transparency in the voting system which heavily relies on election officials currently.

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