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Security researchers uncover Trump campaign app vulnerability
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:49:41 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/security-trump-campaign-app-vulnerability-319814 By Tim Starks politico.com 06/15/2020 A team of security researchers discovered a vulnerability in the mobile app of Donald Trump's campaign that might have allowed hackers to gain access to user data, they said in a Monday report. The Website Planet researchers, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said they notified the campaign's information security team and that a fix was issued within a few days. The "Android Package" file exposed a set of security safeguards known as the Twitter application keys, Google apps key, Google maps key and Branch.io keys in the Official Trump 2020 App, the researchers found. The researchers concluded the flaw didn't expose any user data, but that it would have given an intruder a way in. [...] -- Subscribe to InfoSec News https://www.infosecnews.org/subscribe-to-infosec-news/ https://twitter.com/infosecnews_
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