When it comes to spaffing your login creds, Android biz apps are the business

  • 12 February 2016
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This is one that does surprise me, I naturally assumed that the business apps would be more secure.
 

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.
 
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Heehee...another one in the eye for Android...nice to see given their sanctimonious attitude of old. ;)

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