Student spots Covid app security failure By TPN/Lusa, in Business, Tech · 14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments Henrique Faria, a student at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), has identified a flaw in the ‘Stayaway Covid’ app that calls into question its effectiveness. In a note published on its official website, the IPVC explains that the ‘bug’ was detected during an investigation carried out by Henrique Faria, within the scope of his master’s thesis on Cybersecurity. “In practice, the detected vulnerability, now identified as ‘advertising overflow’, allows an attacker to interrupt the GAEN (Google / Apple Exposure Notification) Bluetooth transmission with a malicious application installed on the same device.”