Baltimore Business Journal – “A team of University of Maryland, College Park students took home a second place win and $5,000 in a competition to come up with a technology strategy to secure digital voting systems in the future. The competition was hosted by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab. The goal for teams was to create a secure voting solution using blockchain technology, which involves a database that maintains a list of ordered records or “blocks” that are timestamped and cannot be altered after recording. Brian Bartholomew and Juan Guerrero, senior security researchers at Kaspersky Lab and judges for the competition, said this competition was especially timely, as concerns of rigged voting and secure elections have been particularly prevalent this year…” [via Pete Weiss]