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Researchers Discover 14,000 Routers Wrangled Into Never-Before-Seen Botnet (it.slashdot.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices -- primarily made by Asus -- that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously carries traffic used for cybercrime. The ma...
Swiss E-Voting Pilot Can't Count 2,048 Ballots After USB Keys Fail To Decrypt Them (it.slashdot.org)
A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn't decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. "Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none of them worked," spokesperson Marco Greiner told the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Swissinfo serv...