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An 11-year-old hacked a government website and changed election results at DEFCON

Monday, August 13, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech An 11-year-old hacked a government website and changed election results at DEFCON

Last Friday, an 11-year-old apparently managed change election results within 10 minutes. While at this year’s DEFCON, he and many other children were offered the chance to hack into a mock-up of a Secretary of State website, and did so with alacrity. According to DEFCON spokespeople, the kids were offered 13 replicas of Secretary of State websites, with Florida being the first. 11-year-old Emmett Brewster was able to hack it inside 10 minutes. Here’s the DefCon Voting Machine Hacking Village roundup of discoveries for the day! Day 1 / Part 1 pic.twitter.com/ovQs7uX7jK — DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) August 11, 2018 That’s…wow,…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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