Wired: Threat Level -- An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their account, after an unidentified hacker obtained a $26,500 loan on the account using the customers user name and password. As initially reported by legal blogger, David Johnson, Marsha and Michael Shames-Yeakel sued Citizens Financial Bank in 2007 in the norther...     09-05
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Wired: Threat Level -- It took about three years but Diebold has finally managed to get out of the election business. The company announced Thursday that Premier Election Solutions, Diebolds beleaguered voting machine division, has been acquired by Election Systems and Software (ES&S). ES&S purchased the company for a mere $5 million in cash, plus 70 percent of any revenue collected on outstanding accounts throu...     09-04
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Wired: Threat Level -- Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technology experts to serve on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), which will help craft...     09-03
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