By Mary Fanning and Alan Jones
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency dropped a document yesterday – late on a Friday afternoon – titled Vulnerabilities Affecting Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X.
CISA, which claimed that the 2020 US election was secure, now admits that Dominion’s ImageCast X has cyber vulnerabilities. CISA also claims that those vulnerabilities have never been exploited.
CISA admits in it’s advisory that:
“The tested version of ImageCast X does not validate application signatures to a trusted root certificate. Use of a trusted root certificate ensures software installed on a device is traceable to, or verifiable against, a cryptographic key provided by the manufacturer to detect tampering. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to install malicious code, which could also be spread to other vulnerable ImageCast X devices via removable media.”…