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Apple to Remove 256 iOS Apps Using Private APIs, Collecting Personal Data

20

Oct

2015

#apple said it will remove 256 misbehaving #apps from its #app store that were using private APIs to pull personal and device information that would allow a user to be tracked. SourceDNA, an analytics company that specializes in studying the iOS and Android mobile app stores, privately disclosed to Apple a list of the #offending apps. […]

Category Mobile security Vulnerabilities Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

Application attacks against clouds up 45%

13

Oct

2015

#application attacks against clouds jumped 45 percent last year, according to a new #report from Houston-based cloud #security firm #alert logic, Inc. The report was based on an analysis of one billion security events in the IT environments of more than 3,000 enterprise customers, and showed that 78 percent saw incidents of application attacks last […]

Category Application security Cloud security Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Apple draws cloudy line on use of root certs in mobile apps

12

Oct

2015

#apple‘s removal of several #apps from its mobile store on Thursday shows the challenges iOS developers can face when app guidelines shift. Among the apps removed was Choice, developed by the Palo Alto-based company Been. The app interrupted encrypted traffic streams sent to a handful of companies, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Pinterest, in order to block […]

Category Application security Written by Cio 0 Comments

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