Android: 100 million users at risk from 23 Play Store apps

 

Android: 100 million users at risk from 23 Play Store apps

23 Android applications accessible on the Google Play Store put the information of 100 million clients helpless before programmers, Checkpoint said. After examination, the analysts found that applications don't as expected secure the individual information of their clients. Eventually, a vindictive individual can misuse these security weaknesses to access individual data, for example, telephone numbers, program history or geolocation. 

a Checkpoint investigation warns users of an Android smartphone: a list of 23 apps available for download from the Play Store are riddled with security holes. In total, 100 million Android users are affected. Most of the apps mentioned by the researchers have been installed more than 10 million times on the Google store. For security reasons, Checkpoint does not reveal the names of the applications in question.

According to the Checkpoint report, the developers of the 23 apps were negligent in the way they store and secure users' personal data. The developers have reportedly misconfigured the real-time databases, which make it easy to store information in the cloud. “Developers often neglect the security aspect and the configuration of these services” regrets Checkpoint.

THE PERSONAL DATA OF 100 MILLION ANDROID USERS ARE THANKS TO PIRATES 

As of late, numerous Android application engineers have left their information and a huge number of private client data carelessly uncovered. These penetrates imperil the two engineers and clients. To make their statement, the specialists abused security defects in 23 applications to suck individual information from certain clients effectively. 

Among the information helpless before programmers, we find specifically messages, messages traded in a texting application, the topographical area of the phone, online assistance passwords and photographs put away on the terminal. "We had the option to recuperate a great deal of delicate data," the report clarifies. With this data close by, an accomplished programmer could figure out how to assume responsibility for your online records and take your character. The network safety firm professes to have "reached Google and every one of the designers of these applications" to discover an answer. A portion of the applications called attention to have effectively revised the circumstance. 

Source : CheckPoint