We’ve recently reported about how a group had managed to track down and exploit a flaw in lottery machines, giving them the ability to print off winning tickets. Now it would seem that investigators ...

JENNIFER: HE WATCHES US ONLINE, SO HE WILL BE THRILLED THAT YOU SAID THAT! CHANGES COMING TO THE MARYLAND LOTTERY. STARTING MONDAY, LOTTERY OFFICIALS WILL USE A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DRAWINGS INSTEAD OF ...

Pretty often at IFLScience Towers, we find ourselves faced with a conspiracy theory we’ve not seen before – and this week was no exception. “Can you believe,” one of our intrepid reporters asked the ...

Prosecutors say they have unearthed forensic evidence that shows how a former computer security official for a US state lottery association let him rig drawings worth millions of dollars across five ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --A Michigan man who won a lottery jackpot of $25,000 a year for life said the numbers on his winning ticket came from a random number generator he found online. Aaron Essenmacher, 50, ...

[Ian] had a need for a lot of random numbers. There are dozens of commercial offerings when it comes to RNGs, but there are also hundreds of different ways for an electronics hobbyist to shoot random ...

If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...