The Trustwave SpiderLabs teams recently announced the discovery of massive databases containing information on almost all United States voters and consumers for sale on cybercriminal forums. Said to contain 186 million records, which covers almost all registered US voters, the databases contain highly detailed information on citizens, including party affiliation, address, voting history and more.
What are the ramifications of this discovery on voting security in the United States, for this election and future elections? And how concerned should the average voter be? To learn more, we interviewed Ziv Mador, Vice President of Security Research for Trustwave SpiderLabs—and the man who led the team that made the initial discovery.
Watch the full interview below.
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