Beijing Olympics App Flaws Allow Man-in-the-Middle Attacks


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Attackers can access audio and files uploaded to the MY2022 mobile app required for use by all winter games attendees – including personal health details. The mobile app that all attendees and athletes of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics must use to manage communications and documentation at the event has a “devastating” flaw in the way it encrypts data that can allow for man-in-the-middle attacks that access sensitive user information, researchers have found. MY2022 is an app mandated for use by all attendees – including members of the press and athletes – of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. The...