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Bitcoin Security Rectifier app aims to make Bitcoin more secure
A computer science engineer at Michigan State University has a word of advice for the millions of bitcoin owners who use smartphone apps to manage their cryptocurrency: don’t. Or at least, be careful. Researchers are developing a mobile app to act as a safeguard for popular but vulnerable “wallet” applications used to manage cryptocurrency.
“More and more people are using bitcoin wallet apps on their smartphones,” said Guan-Hua Tu, an assistant professor in MSU‘s College of Engineering who works in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “But these applications have vulnerabilities.”