Health IT Security June 19, 2020
Jessica Davis

Guardsquare analyzed 17 global government COVID-19 contact tracing apps, including those from the US, finding most lacked sufficient security and pose a serious hacking risk.

The vast majority of government COVID-19 contact tracing apps from across the world, including the US, don’t employ sufficient security protections, making the apps easy targets for hackers, according to a report from Guardsquare.

Guardsquare assessed 17 Android mobile contact tracing apps from 17 different countries, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, using static and dynamic analysis. All apps were built by government entities, some supported by third-party contractors. Researchers noted it was not an exhaustive list, but designed to shed light into security flaws of these apps.

In the US, Google and Apple recently...

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