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posted by martyb on Saturday April 21 2018, @10:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the trial-by-fire dept.

From Ars Technica:

A mobile application built by a third party for the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week was found to have a few security issues of its own—including hard-coded security keys and passwords that allowed a researcher to extract the conference's attendee list. The conference organizers acknowledged the vulnerability on Twitter, but they say that only the first and last names of 114 attendees were exposed.

The vulnerability was discovered (at least publicly) by a security engineer who tweeted discoveries during an examination of the RSA conference mobile app, which was developed by Eventbase Technology. Within four hours of the disclosure, Eventbase had fixed the data leak—an API call that allowed anyone to download data with attendee information.

[...] This is the second time an RSA mobile application has leaked attendee data. In 2014, an application built by another developer, QuickMobile, was found by Gunter Ollmann (who was that time at IOactive) to have a SQLite database containing personal information on registered attendees.

Also at ITWire.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Saturday April 21 2018, @11:14PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Saturday April 21 2018, @11:14PM (#670188) Journal

    It wasn't a vulnerability or a mistake, it was a 'feature' that allowed the company to harvest attendee information for sale and usage later on. The reference to it as a vulnerability is just an exercise in plausible deniability to cover any potential legal action.

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