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Thousands of Android and iPhone apps put user data at risk

Mobile security company Zimperium analyzed over 1.3 million mobile apps for Android and iOS operating systems. As a result of the analysis, experts came to disappointing conclusions.

Thousands of Android and iPhone apps put user data at risk

Nearly 84,000 Android apps and 47,000 iOS apps use public rather than private servers, and 14% of them are also misconfigured, endangering critical user data of all kinds around the world.

It is noted that instead of running their own servers for particularly “sensitive” to information leaks, developers use Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. And we are talking not only about information that companies can then use for advertising, but also, for example, about financial and payment data.

As the head of Zimperium noted, about 20 thousand poorly configured applications literally leave “doors wide open.” Even worse, some of them allow you to overwrite important information remotely.

Representatives of Zimperium have already notified many of their developers of such “faulty” applications, but received almost no response to their notifications.

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