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Android apps flawed - leak personal information

article published on 22 October, 2012

Hundreds of apps found to be vulnerable to "man in the middle" attacks. Research conducted at the University of Leibniz in Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg, found that hundreds of Android apps can leak personal or sensitive information. The researchers tested 13,500 Android apps from the Google Play store, and found that 8 percent of them ... [ read the full article ]

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IguanaC64
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_ 		22. October 2012 @ 19:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Snippet from the article regarding apps they tested (in case you don't want to dig...all these had SSL weaknesses):

Amazon MP3 10-50 million
Chrome 0.5-1 million
Dolphin Browser HD 10-50 million
Dropbox 10-50 million
Ebay 10-50 million
Expedia Bookings 0.5-1 million
Facebook Messenger 10-50 million
Facebook 100-500 million
Foursquare 5-10 million
GMail 100-500 million
Google Play Market All Phones
Google+ 10-50 million
Hotmail 5-10 million
Instagram 5-10 million
OfficeSuite Pro 6 1-5 million
PayPal 1-5 million
Yahoo! Messenger 10-50 million
Yahoo! Mail 10-50 million
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_ 		23. October 2012 @ 00:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There is an android app you can install on your phone and make a fake wifi hotspot and steal all of someones data that connects through you. I don't remember what it is called.
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mukhis
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_ 		23. October 2012 @ 00:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the same may be true for other mobile apps in other mobile OSs, too. the bottomline is that you don't want to use your mobile apps for transactions that needs high security level.
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