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Security News This Week: Election Systems Are Way More Vulnerable Than We Thought

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Geekz Snow
Security News This Week: Election Systems Are Way More Vulnerable Than We Thought

You know what that means: WIRED is back in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, where we’re digging into the latest and greatest hacks on display.

A researcher found it’s possible to break into one just by sending a text message.

To help uncover similar vulnerabilities in the future, Apple is handing out new, hacker-friendly iPhones to its favorite security researchers, and paying up to $1.5 million in bug bounties.

Boeing’s 787 jets might not be very secure, it turns out—Andy Greenberg talked to a security researcher who found multiple serious flaws in the code for one of the plane’s components.

Lily Hay Newman also looked at two very old bugs that have continued to persist, one in desk phones and another in a ubiquitous encryption algorithm.

Lastly, check out this very cool fake hospital, where real medical devices get hacked on purpose.

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