MIT researchers say they found security flaws in Voatz, a smartphone app used for limited online voting during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. The maker of the app says the research is flawed. The company says it cannot comment on plans to use the app in this year’s presidential primaries. The researchers say vulnerabilities in the app could allow a hacker to “alter, stop, or expose a user’s vote, including a side-channel attack in which a completely passive network adversary can potentially recover the user’s secret ballots secret ballot””]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/mit-researchers-online-voting-app-has-security-flaws-a-13726