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Hacker association exposes vulnerability of Yesss!, Hot and Drei web portals

Thursday 31 December 2020 | 16:37 CET | News
The web portals of the A1 brand Yesss!, MVNO Hot and Hutchison Drei present easy targets for hackers, according to security experts in the European association of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Der Standard reports. Other virtual mobile operators using the services provided by Ventocom may also be affected by the vulnerabilities. The virtual operators include Liwest Mobil and Rapid Mobile. Meanwhile Ventocom has put in place anti-CSRF tokens to close the security gaps, according to CCC expert Florian Schweitzer. A1 and Hot have also fixed the problem, according to the report.

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Categories: Mobile & Wireless
Companies: A1 / Google / Hot / Liwest Mobil / Microsoft / Yesss!
Countries: Austria
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