“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

In a Pro-Publica piece about a serious flaw discovered in the Georgia election system, Harris faculty member Jake Braun was cited: 

Jake Braun, the author of a book on cybersecurity flaws in election systems and lecturer at the University of Chicago, said that there is a long history of elections-related websites suffering from easily exploitable security failures, including Russians hacking election infrastructure during the 2016 election and public-interest competitions in which participants breached replicas of state election websites in minutes. Online elections infrastructure, he said, “needs more standards and better standards.”

Read the full story here: https://www.propublica.org/article/cybersecurity-expert-finds-another-flaw-in-georgia-voter-portal