Worm Attacked Voter Database in Notorious Florida District

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via ComputerWorld.

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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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More:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art
icleId=901956

- - ferg

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