HackerOne Drops Mobile Voting App Vendor Voatz

Bug bounty platform provider cited Voatzs pattern of interactions with the research community in its decision to halt the app vendors vuln disclosure program on HackerOne.

Mobile voting application vendor Voatz has been dismissed from HackerOnes bug bounty program platform, according to a report on CyberScoop.
Voatz — whose mobile voting app used in limited elections in a handful of states, including West Virginia and Colorado — has been
under intense scrutiny
over security concerns, and recently published studies by
MIT
and
Trail of Bits
uncovered significant security weaknesses in the app.
While security experts long have dismissed mobile voting as inherently risky, proponents of mobile-voting have maintained that the apps and process are more secure and private, for example, than the standard practice of sending PDF-based ballots via unencrypted email to military personnel overseas.
Voatz recently had updated its bug bounty policy on HackerOne to say that it could not guarantee safe harbor for researchers who discover flaws in its software under the program, CyberScoop said in its report.
After evaluating Voatzs pattern of interactions with the research community, we decided to terminate the program on the HackerOne platform, a HackerOne spokesperson said in the CyberScoop report. We partner with organizations that prioritize acting in good faith towards the security researcher community and providing adequate access to researchers for testing.
Voatz plans to kick off a new bug bounty program, it said.
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