https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/as-election-campaign-gets-underway-israel-faces-threats-by-hackers-1.6822455
By Amitai Ziv
Haaretz.com
Jan 08, 2019
UPDATE: 'Foreign country' intends to intervene in Israeli elections, Shin
Bet chief says
It's Election Day April 9 and you're told when you come to cast your
ballot, "Sorry, you don't appear on the voter rolls - you can't vote."
Before that you've been deluged by text messages from a candidate, but
they’ve been sent by his rivals in the hope you'll protest the annoyance
by voting against. The next day, the Central Elections Committee says it's
having trouble collecting the results.
These things may not happen when Israelis go to the polls, but the odds
are growing that at least some of them will. More than at any time in the
past, Israel's election system is exposed to a cybersecurity risk during
the campaigning, including the process of vote counting.
The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies has
crafted a study noting the likely threats based on the experience of other
countries' elections in recent years and suggests steps Israel can take to
prevent them.
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