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US lotteries rigged using malicious code

April 9, 2016 By editor

The Des Moines Register reports that an information security officer used malicious code to manipulate lottery results in Wisconsin, Colorado and Oklahoma.

Apparently

Examiners found out-of-place programs known as dynamic link libraries, or DLLs, that had been written onto the Wisconsin computer. The programs were designed to “redirect” a drawing if certain conditions were met…

This is a problem with applications that use common libraries (such as DLLs). It’s difficult to be sure what code is being executed.

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