Editor’s Note: While other agencies embrace the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the FCC ignores it. See the bipartisan comments of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees.
From: FedScoop
A cohort of voting municipalities across the U.S. relies on either digital voting systems or online data collection tools that may be susceptible to digital intrusion.
By Chris Bing
Next month, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent federal agency tasked with developing standards and certifying both voting hardware and software, will review the cybersecurity standards of America’s voting infrastructure during a meeting with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to a Federal Register Notice published on Wednesday.
The notice comes just days after news broke that the FBI found evidence showing two separate state voter databases were hacked. Attribution for those attacks remains unclear, though the technique used to exploit the systems was an SQL injection, a rudimentary attack that allows attackers to take control of web application databases.
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