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06-30-2018, 10:36 AM
Thousands of Android and iOS apps are leaking sensitive data, says report
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Millions of passwords, GPS locations, and financial records are sitting unprotected in plain sight — and yours could be one of them.
Researchers at Appthority, a mobile security firm, scanned both Android and iOS mobile apps that used Firebase databases to store their users’ data. For the uninitiated, Firebase is a popular cloud-based backend platform for mobile and web applications. The company was acquired by Google (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2014/10/firebase-is-joining-google.html) back in 2014, so it’s found a real user base among some of the top Android developers.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook and Google accused of using 'dark patterns' to mislead users into sharing personal data (https://mashable.com/2018/06/28/facebook-google-privacy-gdpr-deceived-by-design/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/06/29/ios-android-firebase-mobile-app-threat/)
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Millions of passwords, GPS locations, and financial records are sitting unprotected in plain sight — and yours could be one of them.
Researchers at Appthority, a mobile security firm, scanned both Android and iOS mobile apps that used Firebase databases to store their users’ data. For the uninitiated, Firebase is a popular cloud-based backend platform for mobile and web applications. The company was acquired by Google (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2014/10/firebase-is-joining-google.html) back in 2014, so it’s found a real user base among some of the top Android developers.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook and Google accused of using 'dark patterns' to mislead users into sharing personal data (https://mashable.com/2018/06/28/facebook-google-privacy-gdpr-deceived-by-design/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/06/29/ios-android-firebase-mobile-app-threat/)
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