Voting Village·38 min
Cordero Delgadillo
Examines elections as vulnerable human information systems through the lens of election litigation and administrative procedural failures.
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Voting Village Safe Mode
Virtual (Discord and Twitch) · 6-9 August 2020 · 32 talks
Voting Village focuses on the cybersecurity, physical integrity, and policy challenges of election infrastructure, voting machines, and ballot return systems. Talks address vulnerabilities in electronic voting applications, vote-by-mail security, foreign influence operations, and federal coordination to safeguard democratic elections.
1–24 of 25 talks / 32
Voting Village·1 hr 1 min
Features federal election security leaders discussing military Defend Forward strategies, state coordination, and countering disinformation.
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Voting Village·23 min
Nimit Sawhney
Shares empirical attack telemetry and threat vector data collected across real-world smartphone mobile voting pilot deployments.
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Voting Village·18 min
BiaSciLab
Offers actionable fixes and process improvements for vendors and state governments to secure vote-by-mail systems and registration.
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Voting Village·18 min
BiaSciLab
Examines security vulnerabilities, tracking gaps, and chain-of-custody risks associated with vote-by-mail election systems.
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Voting Village·27 min
Kim Wyman · Kylee Zabel
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman discusses vote-by-mail administration, physical and digital safeguards, and decentralized election security.
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Voting Village·16 min
Secure the Vote
Demonstrates the lack of security in email and fax ballot return systems used by overseas voters and advocates for robust federal standards.
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Voting Village·1 hr 14 min
Amélie Koran
Convenes a panel to examine emerging cyber threats, disinformation campaigns, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure ahead of the 2020 election.
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Voting Village·25 min
Jack Cable · Alex Zaheer
CISA election security advisors Jack Cable and Alex Zaheer analyze emerging threat vectors and infrastructure attack surfaces resulting from the rapid shift to remote voting.
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Voting Village·23 min
Ben Dubow
Analyzes modern information warfare campaigns in Poland and Taiwan to forecast authoritarian influence tactics targeting democratic elections.
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Voting Village·18 min
Steve Newell
Shares insights from CISA on managing new attack surfaces and security trade-offs introduced by rapid shifts to electronic and absentee balloting.
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Voting Village·29 min
Jody Westby
Proposes a comprehensive federal policy approach to mandate vendor transparency, security standards, and cyber risk assessments in elections.
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Voting Village·29 min
Jody Westby
A policy and legal framework for compelling vendors and election officials to remediate known vulnerabilities in voting infrastructure.
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Voting Village·34 min
Features introductory presentations and welcomes for speakers at the DEF CON Safe Mode Voting Village.
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Voting Village·29 min
Stephanie Singer
Presents open-source data science tools designed to consolidate election results rapidly and detect reporting anomalies.
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Voting Village·13 min
Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden discusses federal legislative efforts to mandate hand-marked paper ballots and post-election risk-limiting audits.
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Voting Village·17 min
Benjamin Hovland
U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chairman Benjamin Hovland discusses federal election assistance, funding, and election official support.
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Voting Village·18 min
Susan Greenhalgh
Compares client-side and server-side architectures for remote ballot marking and analyzes their security and privacy risks.
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Voting Village·18 min
Sang Oun Lee
Sang Oun Lee presents an evaluation framework assessing the trustworthiness and security of remote voting methods during pandemic conditions, drawing lessons from South Korea.
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Voting Village·15 min
Forrest Senti · Mattie Gullixson
Presents draft security guidelines modeled after the VVSG to establish federal standards for electronic ballot return platforms.
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Voting Village·29 min
John Odum
Examines cybersecurity challenges, SQL injection risks, and systemic vulnerabilities across state-level election management systems.
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Voting Village·13 min
Mårten Mickos
Discusses how coordinated vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programs enable researchers to report security flaws in election systems.
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Voting Village·24 min
Philip B. Stark · Ran Xie
Demonstrates mathematical limitations showing that pre- and post-election logic and accuracy testing cannot prove ballot-marking devices did not alter votes.
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Voting Village·27 min
Michael A. Specter
Discloses reverse engineering findings and side-channel vulnerabilities in the Voatz blockchain mobile voting application.
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