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Worm attacked voter database in notorious Florida district
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:23:52 -0400
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art icleId=9019560&pageNumber=1> &articleId=9019560&pageNumber=1 May 16, 2007 (Computerworld) <http://www.computerworld.com/> -- The computer database infrastructure of Sarasota County, Fla., was attacked by a notorious Internet worm on the first day of early voting during the 2006 election, which featured the now-contested U.S. House race between Democrat Christine Jennings and Republican Vern Buchanan in Florida's 13th Congressional district. In the early afternoon hours on Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, an Internet worm slammed into the county's database system, breaching its firewall and overwriting the system's administrative password. The havoc brought the county's network -- and the electronic voting system which relies on it -- to its knees as Internet access was all but lost at voting locations for two hours that afternoon. Voters in one of the nation's most hotly contested Congressional elections were unable to cast ballots during the outage, since officials were unable to verify registration data. ...
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