• RISKS Digest 31.19

    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to All on Sat Apr 20 17:50:25 2019
    RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Saturday 20 April 2019 Volume 31 : Issue 19

    ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy

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    Contents:
    AA 300 JFK-LAX incident (CBS via PGN)
    1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Dan Jacobson)
    Contractor identifies new problems with phase 2 of the Silver Line
    (WashPost)
    "Fallible machines, fallible humans" (The Straits Times and Financial Times)
    A computerized YouTube fact-checking tool goes very wrong: In flaming Notre
    Dame, it somehow sees 9/11 tragedy (WashPost)
    Election systems in 50 states were targeted in 2016 (DHS/FBI via
    Ars Technica)
    Mysterious operative haunted Kaspersky critics (AP)
    Samsung's $2,000 folding phone is breaking for some users after two days
    (CNBC)
    Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries (WiReD)
    Man Bites Dog Dept: MSFT supports human rights!! (Reuters)
    Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support (WiReD)
    As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye (npr.org)
    Wipro customers hacked, says Krebs. Nothing to see here, says Wipro
    (TechBeacon)
    Facebook has admitted to unintentionally uploading the address books of 1.5
    million users without consent (The Guardian)
    Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant,
    Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole (Forbes)
    AppleWatch or AnkleMonitor: You Decide (Henry Baker)
    Fintech fiddles as home burns: 97% of apps lack basic security (TechBeacon) Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:04:30 PDT
    From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com>
    Subject: AA 300 JFK-LAX incident

    On 10 Apr 2019, an American Airlines Airbus A321 jet `nearly crashed' during takeoff at JFK. The wing apparently scraped the ground and hit a sign and light pole during takeoff, bending the wing. "We were banking, uncontrolled bank 45 degrees to the left," a pilot could be heard saying on the air
    traffic control audio of the incident. It was evidently an `uncommanded
    roll to the left', with no explanation yet as to the cause. Although the
    plane did manage to take off, it then returned to JFK 28 minutes later.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-airlines-flight-300-jfk-close-call-appear
    s-worse-than-first-reported/

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    Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:47:21 +0800
    From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
    Subject: 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident

    "...the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a
    false alarm, and his decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory
    nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that
    the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

    [In RISKS-3.39, 18 Aug 1986, we had a "Nuclear false alarm" item,
    contributed by Robert Stroud. That case triggered nuclear attack sirens
    in Edinburgh. PGN]

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    Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:36:28 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Contractor identifies new problems with phase 2 of the Silver Line
    (WashPost)

    The structures that support the Dulles Airport Metro station's glass wall
    are cracked and lack proper reinforcement.

    Keith Couch, project director for CRC, downplayed the problems at the Dulles station, saying that officials are working to find a solution. He said the
    fact that the problems were discovered before the project was completed is a sign that the company's quality control program is working. CRC's
    inspections and quality control have come under criticism as the project's problems have mounted.

    Project executive director Charles Stark characterized the issues at the
    Dulles station as a "workmanship problem."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/contractor-identifies-

    new-problems-with-phase-2-of-the-silver-line/2019/04/11/df412180-5a2a-11e9-a00e
    -050dc7b82693_story.html

    "QC is working" to detect workmanship problems.

    "workmanship" appears in article once, as does "improve" -- but referring to schedule, not workmanship.

    The risk? Nothing changing.

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:04:14 +0800
    From: Richard Stein <rmstein@ieee.org>
    Subject: "Fallible machines, fallible humans"
    (The Straits Times and Financial Times)

    Robert Wright byline, behind paywalls as:

    1) "Fallible machines, fallible humans," via https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/fallible-machines-fallible-humans retrieved on 17APR2019;

    2) "Autonomous machines: industry grapples with Boeing lessons" via https://www.ft.com/content/f96478e0-59e0-11e9-939a-341f5ada9d40

    The cited news articles discuss technology-dependent systems (medical
    infusion pumps, aircraft, industrial robotic manufacturing) and their dependency on human engagement to monitor activity.

    Today's AI cannot independently comprehend context: they can match patterns, but cannot rationalize the recognized pattern in a way that emulates a
    human's mind.

    No machine can be programmed today to process contextual awareness and independently act to preserve and protect human life during an emergency. An organization or individual expecting this outcome apparently believes that science fiction is real. They must be disabused of this fallacy.

    In the FT and Straits Times articles, Mark Sujan of University of Warwick
    asks, "How do we ensure that the system knows enough about the world within which it's operation? That's a complex thing."

    As noted by Don Norman (see
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/12/48%23subj7.1 for example),
    "The real RISK in computer system design is NOT human error. It is designers who are content to blame human error and thereby wash their hands of responsibility."

    Demonstrating system behavior when subjected to erroneous or negative input stimulus can reveal more about system safety-readiness and resilience than demonstration of behavior under nominal stimulus conditions. Anomalous
    system states, in a simulator, can instruct and refine operational
    readiness.

    Successful and effective system operation depends on informed, trained, and engaged human oversight. Safety critical system operators must possess perspicacity. Clear indicators of anomalous behavior, and insightful
    operator reaction to them, are essential to ensure a safe outcome.

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:17:13 +0800
    From: Richard Stein <rmstein@ieee.org>
    Subject: A computerized YouTube fact-checking tool goes very wrong: In
    flaming Notre Dame, it somehow sees 9/11 tragedy (WashPost)

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/computerized-youtube-fact-
    checking-tool-goes-very-wrong-flaming-notre-dame-it-somehow-sees-sept-tragedy

    "If the algorithm saw a video of tall structures engulfed in smoke and
    inferred that it was related to the attack on the World Trade Center, that speaks well of the state of the art in video system understanding, that it would see the similarity to 9/11. There was a point where that would have
    been impossible.

    "But the algorithms lack the comprehension of human context or common sense, making them woefully unprepared for news events. YouTube, he said, is poorly equipped to fix such problems now and probably will remain so for years to come.

    "'They have to depend on these algorithms, but they all have sorts of
    failure modes. And they can't fly under the radar anymore,' Domingos said. 'It's not just whack-a-mole. It's a losing game.'"

    Risk: Brand outrage incidence frequency multiplies with business
    accumulation of technical debt.

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    Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 9:09:05 PDT
    From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com>
    Subject: Election systems in 50 states were targeted in 2016 (DHS/FBI via
    Ars Technica)

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/dhs-fbi-say-election-sys
    tems-in-50-states-were-targeted-in-2016

    *A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation to state and local authorities regarding Russian hacking activities during the 2016
    presidential election. While the bulletin contains no new technical information, it is the first official report to confirm that the Russian reconnaissance and hacking efforts in advance of the election went well
    beyond the 21 states confirmed in previous reports.*

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    Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:13:57 +0100
    From: J Coe <spendday@gmail.com>
    Subject: Mysterious operative haunted Kaspersky critics (AP)

    The Associated Press has learned that the mysterious man (who said his name
    was Lucas Lambert) spent several months last year investigating critics of Kaspersky Lab, organizing at least four meetings with cybersecurity experts
    in London and New York.

    https://apnews.com/a3144f4ef5ab4588af7aba789e9892ed

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:39:58 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Samsung's $2,000 folding phone is breaking for some users after two
    days (CNBC)

    Samsung's Galaxy Fold is already breaking.
    Reviewers who got the device are seeing flickering screens. Some think
    because a protective film was removed.
    But CNBC's unit is also broken and we did not remove the film.

    Samsung's $2,000 folding phone is breaking for some users after two days https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/samsung-galaxy-fold-screen-breaking-and-flicker
    ing.html

    Gadget gimmick for its own sake? I use two PC monitors for Windows but don't have windows span their border -- bezels would be intrusive. I can't see
    using this phone with a single app spanning the displays and am skeptical
    about people paying that much for two separate screens -- if it even
    operates that way. Surprise, the hinge is a likely failure point.

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:41:13 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
    (WiReD)

    The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a
    weak link in the Internet's cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique that meddles with the fundamental address book of the Internet.

    Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of
    espionage via DNS hijacking, hitting 40 different organizations. In the process, they went so far as to compromise multiple country-code top-level domains -- the suffixes like .co.uk or .ru that end a foreign web address -- putting all the traffic of every domain in multiple countries at risk.

    The hackers' victims include telecoms, Internet service providers, and
    domain registrars responsible for implementing the domain name system. But
    the majority of the victims and the ultimate targets, Cisco believes, were a collection of mostly governmental organizations, including ministries of foreign affairs, intelligence agencies, military targets, and energy-related groups, all based in the Middle East and North Africa. By corrupting the Internet's directory system, hackers were able to silently use "man in the middle" attacks to intercept all Internet data from email to web traffic
    sent to those victim organizations.

    https://www.wired.com/story/sea-turtle-dns-hijacking/

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:24:08 -0700
    From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>
    Subject: Man Bites Dog Dept: MSFT supports human rights!! (Reuters)

    [Once again, I had to carefully check the date on this article to make
    sure that it wasn't April 1st!]

    As much as I applaud the zeal of all the newly converted, I'm far too
    cynical to believe a word of Brad Smith, given the *second* article about Microsoft, below. Perhaps St. Augustine's prayer is more appropriate for Microsoft: "Please God, make me good, but not just yet".

    My prayer for Microsoft: "May the Farce be with you!" *

    (* See below.)

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-ai/microsoft-turned-down-facial-re
    cognition-sales-on-human-rights-concerns-idUSKCN1RS2FV

    Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

    Joseph Menn April 16, 2019 / 11:33 PM / Updated a day ago

    PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently rejected a California law enforcement agency's request to install facial recognition technology in officers' cars and body cameras due to human rights concerns, company
    President Brad Smith said on Tuesday.

    Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning because the artificial intelligence
    has been trained on mostly white and male pictures.

    AI has more cases of mistaken identity with women and minorities, multiple research projects have found.

    "Anytime they pulled anyone over, they wanted to run a face scan" against a database of suspects, Smith said without naming the agency. After thinking through the uneven impact, "we said this technology is not your answer."

    Speaking at a Stanford University conference on "human-centered artificial intelligence," Smith said Microsoft had also declined a deal to install
    facial recognition on cameras blanketing the capital city of an unnamed
    country that the nonprofit Freedom House had deemed not free. Smith said it would have suppressed freedom of assembly there.

    On the other hand, Microsoft did agree to provide the technology to an
    American prison, after the company concluded that the environment would be limited and that it would improve safety inside the unnamed institution.

    Smith explained the decisions as part of a commitment to human rights that
    he said was increasingly critical as rapid technological advances empower governments to conduct blanket surveillance, deploy autonomous weapons and
    take other steps that might prove impossible to reverse.

    Microsoft said in December it would be open about shortcomings in its facial recognition and asked customers to be transparent about how they intended to use it, while stopping short of ruling out sales to police.

    Smith has called for greater regulation of facial recognition and other uses
    of artificial intelligence, and he warned Tuesday that without that,
    companies amassing the most data might win the race to develop the best AI
    in a "race to the bottom."

    He shared the stage with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
    Rights, Michelle Bachelet, who urged tech companies to refrain from building new tools without weighing their impact.

    "Please embody the human rights approach when you are developing
    technology," said Bachelet, a former president of Chile.

    Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw declined to name the prospective customers
    the company turned down.

    Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Greg Mitchell and Lisa Shumaker

    https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/04/microsoft-unveils-two-secret-data
    -centers-built-classified-government-data/156376/

    Frank Konkel, 17 Apr 2019

    Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government
    Data

    ... Microsoft's announcement is part of the company's plan to compete with Amazon--the only company cleared to host the CIA and Defense Department's secret and top secret classified data--and comes as both companies compete
    for a $10 billion military cloud contract called *JEDI*. ...

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    Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:22:03 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of Customer Support
    (WiReD)

    On Friday night, Microsoft sent notification emails to an unknown number of
    its individual email users -- across Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail -- warning
    them about a data breach. Between January 1 and March 28 of this year,
    hackers used a set of stolen credentials for a Microsoft customer support platform to access account data like email addresses in messages, message subject lines, and folder names inside accounts. By Sunday, it acknowledged that the problem was actually much worse.

    After tech news site Motherboard showed Microsoft evidence from a source
    that the scope of the incident was more extensive, the company revised its initial statement, saying instead that for about 6 percent of users who received a notification, hackers could also access the text of their
    messages and any attachments. Microsoft had previously denied to TechCrunch that full email messages were affected.

    https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-email-hack-outlook-hotmail-customer-suppo
    rt/

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    Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:33:07 +0800
    From: Richard Stein <rmstein@ieee.org>
    Subject: As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye (npr.org)

    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/711779130/as-china-hacked-u-s-businesses-turned-
    a-blind-eye

    "Technology theft and other unfair business practices originating from China are costing the American economy more than $57 billion a year, White House officials believe, and they expect that figure to grow.

    "Yet an investigation by NPR and the PBS television show Frontline into why three successive administrations failed to stop cyberhacking from China
    found an unlikely obstacle for the government -- the victims themselves."

    Why do for-profit organizations, possessing vast stores of valuable intellectual property, apparently accept and anticipate theft of this
    content? Because the PRC marketplace is "too big" to ignore.

    US businesses display a remarkable, and convenient, myopia when it suits
    their primary objective: capture and realize revenue. Corporations are
    inured to theft and breach, exhausted by defense against the inevitable.

    Businesses budget for theft losses and pay insurance premiums as an
    operational expense. No longer is an eyelash of concern raised. These
    expenses are considered leakage. (See the movie classic "Casino.").
    Business continuity is the objective.

    When pushed against the wall (if revenue capture is threatened by
    'unfavorable or unfair' competition), business can prevail upon political governance to embargo foreign-products, or savage their competitor's product capabilities like HuaWei 5G per
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/31/16%23subj19

    A calculated brand outrage assault and reputation sabotage campaign can tip procurement scales against certain suppliers.

    Given visible product defect escape and zero-day density reports (as noted
    in RISKS-31.16 and elsewhere), how do data breach and IP theft incidents arising from deployed gear (be they domestic or foreign), constitute a favorable outcome for dependent end-users and businesses?

    Whether the PRC or the US/EU "wins the contest" for most rapacious and effective data breach and IP theft exploitation capabilities is immaterial
    to governments.

    International economic dominance -- hegemony -- appears to motivate PRC IP theft and intrusion frequency: Become the world's largest economy and bask
    in the bragging rights limelight by any conceivable means. The US/EU
    apparently do not enlist their intelligence services for this purpose, at
    least as vigorously engaged or as visibly compared to the #2 global economy.

    Risks: Exhausted business strategies and weak operational practices that
    rely on government intervention to rebalance the marketplace. Insufficient
    or ineffective safeguards applied to suppress IP Internet theft, intrusions, and digital data exfiltration.

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    Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:38:48 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Wipro customers hacked, says Krebs. Nothing to see here, says Wipro
    (TechBeacon)

    https://techbeacon.com/security/wipro-customers-hacked-says-krebs-nothing-see-h
    ere-says-wipro

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    Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 08:05:53 -1000
    From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
    Subject: Facebook has admitted to unintentionally uploading the address
    books of 1.5 million users without consent (The Guardian)

    EXCERPT:

    Facebook has admitted to `unintentionally' uploading the address books of
    1.5 million users without consent, and says it will delete the collected
    data and notify those affected.
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/facebook

    The discovery follows criticism of Facebook by security experts for a
    feature that asked new users for their email password as part of the sign-up process. As well as exposing users to potential security breaches, those who provided passwords found that, immediately after their email was verified,
    the site began importing contacts without asking for permission.

    Facebook has now admitted it was wrong to do so, and said the upload was inadvertent. ``Last month we stopped offering email password verification
    as an option for people verifying their account when signing up for Facebook for the first time,'' the company said. ``When we looked into the steps
    people were going through to verify their accounts we found that in some
    cases people's email contacts were also unintentionally uploaded to Facebook when they created their account, We estimate that up to 1.5 million people's email contacts may have been uploaded. These contacts were not shared with anyone and we're deleting them. We've fixed the underlying issue and are notifying people whose contacts were imported. People can also review and manage the contacts they share with Facebook in their settings.''

    The issue was first noticed in early April, when the Daily Beast reported
    on Facebook's practice of asking for email passwords to verify new users. The feature, which allows Facebook to automatically log in to a webmail account
    to effectively click the link on an email verification itself, was
    apparently intended to smooth the workflow for signing up for a new account. https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-
    email-passwords

    But security experts said the practice was `beyond sketchy', noting that
    it gave Facebook access to a large amount of personal data and may have led
    to users adopting unsafe practices around password confidentiality. The
    company was ``practically fishing for passwords you are not supposed to
    know,'' according to cybersecurity tweeter e-sushi who first raised concern about the feature, which Facebook says has existed since 2016... https://twitter.com/originalesushi%3Flang%3Den

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-uploaded-email-cont
    acts-of-15m-users-without-consent

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    Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:00:29 -0400
    From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
    Subject: Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant,
    Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole (Forbes)

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/16/utah-bans-police-from-searc
    hing-digital-data-without-a-warrant-closes-fourth-amendment-loophole/

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    Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:01:53 -0700
    From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>
    Subject: AppleWatch or AnkleMonitor: You Decide

    "Ankle monitor" and Fitbit/AppleWatch are becoming indistinguishable in the
    new world of Chinese/Uber/AirBnB-style Social Credit Systems.

    Three excellent 11-16 minute videos of Big Tech's version of Social
    Credit Systems in action. Well done, with high production values.

    This dystopian world is no longer "far into the future", but already
    here.

    https://www.sscqueens.org/news/launch-of-screening-surveillance https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surveillance https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpEmA7HemoLdu-bZsr63y-Q

    Blaxites

    https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surveillance/blaxites https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DyfVNDuWGZTs

    Blaxites

    Published on Apr 9, 2019

    Jai's celebratory social media post affects her access to vital medication.
    Her attempts to circumvent the system leads to even more dire consequences.

    Written by: Nehal El-Hadi Directed by: Josh Lyon

    https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surveillance/frames https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjfJX8HaGy6s

    Frames

    Published on Apr 9, 2019

    A smart city tracks and analyzes a woman walking through the city.
    Things she does are interpreted and logged by the city system, but are
    they drawing an accurate picture of the woman?

    Written by: Madeline Ashby Directed by: Farhad Pakdel

    https://www.sscqueens.org/projects/screening-surveillance/a-model-employee https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DkBeggSzwKQ4

    A Model Employee

    Published on Mar 29, 2019

    To keep her day job at a local restaurant, Neeta, an aspiring DJ, has
    to wear a tracking wristband. As it tracks her life outside of work,
    she tries to fool the system, but a new device upgrade means trouble.

    Written by: Tim Maughan Directed by: Leila Khalilzadeh

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    Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:46:56 -0400
    From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
    Subject: Fintech fiddles as home burns: 97% of apps lack basic security
    (TechBeacon)

    This is not fine. A white-hat researcher examined 30 financial apps, looking for information security issues -- worryingly, all but one of them were insecure.

    The failures were mind-numbingly familiar, and dead easy to find. It's as if the industry has learned nothing and is walking around with a sign on its
    back, saying, "Rob me."

    https://techbeacon.com/security/fintech-fiddles-home-burns-97-apps-found-insecu
    re

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