{"id":32810,"date":"2022-01-18T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32810"},"modified":"2022-01-18T23:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:09:23","slug":"phone-app-olympic-athletes-must-use-is-easily-hackable-cybersecurity-group-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32810","title":{"rendered":"Phone app Olympic athletes must use is easily hackable, cybersecurity group warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA phone app athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics are required to use contains security flaws that make it vulnerable to privacy breaches of personal and medical information, a cybersecurity watchdog group said on Tuesday.The app \u2013 built by the Games organisers to monitor Covid-19 cases and provide logistical aid to athletes \u2013 includes encryption of voice messages and file transfers that can be \u201ctrivially sidestepped\u201d, researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Citizen Lab reported. They\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3163884\/phone-app-olympic-athletes-must-use-easily-hackable-cybersecurity-group?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA phone app athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics are required to use contains security flaws that make it vulnerable to privacy breaches of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}