Smartphone apps may be convenient, fun, or a decent distraction, but plenty of them play a dangerous game with your data. Over 70 iOS apps are exposing user and device data to interception because they have been misconfigured or otherwise fail at handling encryption, according to a security researcher.
“Automatically scanning the binary code of applications within the Apple App Store en-masse allowed us to get a vast amount of information about these security issues,” Will Strafach, an iOS-focused security researcher, wrote in a Medium post published on Monday. Strafach used his own web-based, app analysis service verify.ly, to dig through the apps.
