FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's running on the voting information systems that will be used in elections in Wisconsin and Kentucky tomorrow.
The FBI has warned that "criminal actors" use FTP in targeting US voting systems. The Wisconsin Elections Commission and DHS have reported hacker attacks on Wisconsin voting machines in the 2016 elections.
Propublica portscanned the voting information systems in Kentucky and Wisconsin, which are connected to the fucking internet, and found FTP services being advertised by servers on the machines.
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The FBI has warned that "criminal actors" use FTP in targeting US voting systems. The Wisconsin Elections Commission and DHS have reported hacker attacks on Wisconsin voting machines in the 2016 elections.
Propublica portscanned the voting information systems in Kentucky and Wisconsin, which are connected to the fucking internet, and found FTP services being advertised by servers on the machines.