Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast


Root Causes 91: Rabobank Banking App Outage

May 12, 2020

Australia's Rabobank recently experienced an outage preventing its Android banking app from connecting to its servers. The root cause? An expired certificate. In this episode our hosts explain what happened and how it could have been avoided. They also discuss certificate pinning, how it came to be used with apps like this one, and its disadvantages.