A 11-year-old kid figured out how to hack into a copy of Florida's decision results site in 10 minutes and change names and counts amid a programmers tradition, coordinators stated, feeding worries about security in front of across the nation votes.
The kid was the fastest of 35 kids, ages 6 to 17, who all in the end hacked into duplicates of the sites of six swing states amid the three-day Def Con security tradition throughout the end of the week, the occasion said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The occasion was intended to test the quality of U.S. decision framework and subtle elements of the vulnerabilities would be passed onto the states, it included.
The National Association of Secretaries of State - who are in charge of counting votes - said it respected the tradition's endeavors. Be that as it may, it said the genuine frameworks utilized by states would have extra assurances.
"It would be to a great degree hard to repeat these frameworks since numerous states use one of a kind systems and custom-constructed databases with new and refreshed security conventions," the affiliation said.
The hacking show came as concerns twirl about decision framework vulnerabilities before mid-term state and government races.
U.S President Donald Trumps national security group cautioned two weeks prior that Russia had propelled inescapable endeavors to meddle in the November surveys.
Members at the tradition changed gathering names and included upwards of 12 billion votes to hopefuls, the occasion said.
"Competitor names were changed to 'Bounce Da Builder' and 'Richard Nixon's head'," the tradition tweeted.
The tradition connected to what it said was the Twitter record of the triumphant kid - named there as Emmett Brewer from Austin, Texas.
A screen capture posted on the record indicated he had figured out how to change the name of the triumphant applicant on the imitation Florida site to his own and gave himself billions of votes.
The tradition's Voting Village additionally expected to uncover security issues in different frameworks, for example, computerized survey books and memory-card perusers.
The kid was the fastest of 35 kids, ages 6 to 17, who all in the end hacked into duplicates of the sites of six swing states amid the three-day Def Con security tradition throughout the end of the week, the occasion said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The occasion was intended to test the quality of U.S. decision framework and subtle elements of the vulnerabilities would be passed onto the states, it included.
The National Association of Secretaries of State - who are in charge of counting votes - said it respected the tradition's endeavors. Be that as it may, it said the genuine frameworks utilized by states would have extra assurances.
"It would be to a great degree hard to repeat these frameworks since numerous states use one of a kind systems and custom-constructed databases with new and refreshed security conventions," the affiliation said.
The hacking show came as concerns twirl about decision framework vulnerabilities before mid-term state and government races.
U.S President Donald Trumps national security group cautioned two weeks prior that Russia had propelled inescapable endeavors to meddle in the November surveys.
Members at the tradition changed gathering names and included upwards of 12 billion votes to hopefuls, the occasion said.
"Competitor names were changed to 'Bounce Da Builder' and 'Richard Nixon's head'," the tradition tweeted.
The tradition connected to what it said was the Twitter record of the triumphant kid - named there as Emmett Brewer from Austin, Texas.
A screen capture posted on the record indicated he had figured out how to change the name of the triumphant applicant on the imitation Florida site to his own and gave himself billions of votes.
The tradition's Voting Village additionally expected to uncover security issues in different frameworks, for example, computerized survey books and memory-card perusers.
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