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Mobile Apps Fail Big Time at Security, Study Says

11

Aug

2011

A study from digital security company viaForensics paints a stark picture of the vulnerability of smartphone user data. viaForensics evaluated 100 popular consumer apps running on Android and iOS, and found that 76 percent store usernames, while 10 percent store passwords as plain text. Those 10 percent included popular sites such as LinkedIn, Skype, and […]

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Unpatched iPhones/iPads secure connections not so secure

27

Jul

2011

Yesterday I wrote about Apple’s latest fixes for iWork and iOS and encouraged folks to update. Now that more information is available it is clearly critical that all users update as soon as possible, unless they only use their device for telephone calls. Moxie Marlinspike posted a message on his blog yesterday announcing an update […]

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Apple fixes a security vulnerability in iOS

26

Jul

2011

Apple released iOS 4.2.10/4.3.5 Software Update for iPhones, iPad and iPod touch as update through iTunes. This update addresses a single vulnerability through which an attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. Apple describes in a knowledge base article, that the problem occurrs because of an […]

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