---
id: 3145
title: "Hacker-Powered Security, Government Support Needed to Protect Financial Services Consumers from Application Vulnerabilities"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/hacker-powered-security-government-support-needed-protect-financial-services-consumers"
published_at: "2019-04-03T21:00:00Z"
tags: ["encryption", "policy", "financial-services", "citizen-lab", "testimony", "canada"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3145"
lang: en
---

# Hacker-Powered Security, Government Support Needed to Protect Financial Services Consumers from Application Vulnerabilities

## Summary

Citizen Lab's Christopher Parsons told Canada's SECU committee that shared libraries make flaws in financial apps cascade widely, and encryption backdoor mandates endanger every user.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2019-04-03T21:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/hacker-powered-security-government-support-needed-protect-financial-services-consumers
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3145