Voting machines must remain secure throughout their entire service lifetime, and this study demonstrates how a relatively new programming technique can be used to take control of a voting machine that ...

Intel has come up with a chip-level plan to defeat attacks that use return-oriented programming to exploit memory vulnerabilities. The new measures are outlined in a preview specification from Intel ...

UC San Diego computer science Ph.D. student Stephen Checkoway clutches a print out demonstrating that his vote-stealing exploit that relied on return-oriented programming successfully took control of ...