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Security researchers have helped fix a flaw in genetic-mapping software that could have allowed a hacker to manipulate the results of a person’s DNA analysis, showing the challenges of securing code in an industry that is crunching ever-larger sets of data. The bug in the open-source Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) allowed genetic data to be sent over insecure channels, potentially exposing it to interception and manipulation. Genetic mapping involves replicating information from a person’s cells and comparing that to a standardized human genome, helping a doctor identify traits associated with a disease. In practice, a doctor receiving erroneous data from the software could have prescribed the wrong medication to a patient, warned analysts from the government-funded Sandia National Laboratories, who discovered the vulnerability. BWA is one of the most widely used programs for genetic mapping. A patch has been issued for the flaw. There is no evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild, researchers said. […]
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