It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App

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Expensive, flawed and quickly cracked: The EU's planned app for age testing is currently proving to be a huge security risk. By simple interventions in configuration files, attackers incite data protection completely effortlessly. (Continue reading)

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Just a few days after its launch, the new European age verification application is already strongly criticized by cybersecurity experts. These alerts rekindle doubts about the robustness of the future European digital identity portfolio. Are these loopholes merely technical errors corrigible or do they translate structural limits? Article The EU's age verification application compromised in 2 minutes appeared first on Cryptoast.

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The new EU app is intended to serve the protection of minors, but so far it offers hackers the chance to steal sensitive data. Within just 2 minutes, specialists were able to bypass the security functions, gain access to data and falsify the previous core, the age record. The introduction of the app is already controversial, but of course the »repair work« is now underway. The EU app for age record is "ready" Until now, the talk of voluntary use…

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Cybersecurity experts point to several problems in the way the application is designed.

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The app aims to allow users to verify their age on various online platforms without providing personal data. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the launch that the system meets the highest data protection requirements.