Thursday, December 7, 2017

Bank Of America, HSBC or TunnelBear customers may want to take a look at this


Researchers from the UK have uncovered a serious vulnerability in the way nine banking and VPN apps handle encrypted communication that puts tens of millions of users at risk of man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks

"Our tests find that apps from some of the world's largest banks contain the flaw, which if exploited, could enable an attacker to decrypt, view and modify traffic - including log-in credentials - from the users of the app," write Chris Mcmahon Stone, Tom Chothia, and Flavio Garcia of University of Birmingham

For More:
https://www.darkreading.com/mobile/man-in-the-middle-flaw-in-major-banking-vpn-apps-exposes-millions/d/d-id/1330586?_mc

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