Tests reveal 136 vulnerabilities in Covid certificate
If your name's not down on the certificate, you're not coming in. Scene at a nightclub in Lausanne in June.
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Security tests on the Swiss Covid certificate have so far revealed 136 possible vulnerabilities, the government said on Thursday. This is normal, it added, given the extensive amount of programming code and infrastructures.
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Revelan 136 vulnerabilidades en el certificado COVID
In a 16-page reportExternal link, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) gave an overview of the vulnerabilities reported up to last week. Several critical flaws were still being analysed and would not be published for the time being for security reasons, it said.
Some of the reported problems had already been fixed, the NCSC said. In some cases there was no need for action because the development was carried out according to “explicit national or European requirements”, or because a finding turned out to be a misinterpretation on the part of the reporting party.
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