
Study exposes vulnerability of popular mobile apps
The Hindu
‘Most apps fail to use private keys to protect user data’
How safe are the countless mobile apps that a smartphone user so whimsically installs? The findings based on an analysis of 10,000 popular apps conducted last month by CloudSEK, a Bengaluru-based Artificial Intelligence-driven Digital Risk Management Enterprise, are not so reassuring. The analysis done with the help of BeVigil, a free security search engine tool developed for assessing threat perception of mobile apps, found that over 40 apps with a collective download of more than 100 million were highly vulnerable endangering their internal networks and data, thanks to hardcoded AWS (Amazon Web Services) keys.More Related News