By Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Executive Yuan yesterday said 98 government-made applications render their users highly vulnerable to hacking, adding that it would pull the apps from circulation if improvements are not made by the middle of the month. Of the remaining apps, 23 were found to have four to six vulnerabilities and 101 have one to three vulnerabilities, the report said. Those that fail to meet the deadline are to be pulled, Executive Yuan sources said. According to the executive’s report, information security evaluations were conducted on the 144 apps that are available for download by 73 of its agencies. The National Development Council is to draft new standards for information security, which all future government-made apps must meet before distribution, the Executive Yuan said.

Source: Taipei Times May 07, 2017 16:30 UTC