TechLetters #89 UK election cyberrisk with zero risk, Swiss bug bounty, businesses destroyed by a breach, Indirect/inferred data are #GDPR protected data
TechLetters #89 UK election cyberrisk with zero risk, Swiss bug bounty, businesses destroyed by a breach, Indirect/inferred data are #GDPR protected data
Security Voting for the new UK prime minister postponed. NCSC/GCHQ warned that the system contains a weakness and potentially someone else could exploit it to cast votes or change the votes casted. The system apparently allowed casting votes multiple times? Oops. Anyway, the impact would be negligible because only two persons, from the same party, are competing.
Re: Voting for the new UK prime minister postponed.
"Anyway, the impact would be negligible because only two persons, from the same party, are competing." ... Not at all. The reason that the NCSC and GCHQ pitched in simply because the undermining of an electoral process in which the leader of the UK is chosen is clearly very important in protecting the rule of law and a democracy. Was easy to see how an adversary might exploit this to question belief in UK's political selection processes and undermine the government.
Re: Voting for the new UK prime minister postponed.
"Anyway, the impact would be negligible because only two persons, from the same party, are competing." ... Not at all. The reason that the NCSC and GCHQ pitched in simply because the undermining of an electoral process in which the leader of the UK is chosen is clearly very important in protecting the rule of law and a democracy. Was easy to see how an adversary might exploit this to question belief in UK's political selection processes and undermine the government.