Sequoia e-voting machine commandeered by clever attack • The Register

Sequoia e-voting machine commandeered by clever attack • The Register:

Computer scientists have figured out to how trick a widely used electronic voting machine into altering tallies with a technique that bypasses measures that are supposed to prevent unauthorized code from running on the device.

The method, known as return-oriented programming, has already been used to defeat security measures built into the Linux and OpenBSD operating systems.