300% better at it than non-business apps
12 Feb 2016 at 11:06, John Leyden Business apps for Android are three times more likely to leak login credentials than the average app, according to a new study by security firm NowSecure.
An analysis of more than 400,000 apps available from the Google Play store discovered that a quarter of all apps have at least one high risk security flaw, with 11 per cent leaking sensitive data over the network and 13 per cent displaying file system issues.
The researchers took a closer look at five popular app categories: business, finance, games, shopping, and social. NowSecure found that while Game apps are one-and-a-half times more likely to include a high risk vulnerability than the average app, business apps are three times more likely to do so.
Full Article