McAfee Labs warns mobile apps left vulnerable for months

26.02.2015
Intel Security's latest McAfee Labs Threats Report: February 2015 has revealed an assessment of the current mobile threat landscape and highlighted how the failure of mobile app developers to patch critical secure sockets layer (SSL) vulnerabilities has the potential to impact millions of mobile phone users globally.

In tests run in January 2015 by McAfee Labs on the 25 most popular apps on the Computer Emergency Response Team's (CERT) September 2014 list of vulnerable mobile apps, 18 of the 25 were found to still be at risk -- with McAfee Labs able to carry out Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks to intercept data including confidential usernames, passwords and social media login credentials.

Intel Security APAC CTO, Sean Duca, said, "Given the choice between obtaining your credit card details or personal information, cybercriminals will always choose the latter. Whilst financial details can be easily changed, personal data is long lasting and often stored on our devices in various forms for years at a time.

"It's alarming then that despite multiple warnings and so many recent high-profile security cases in the past year, so many app developers have failed to address highlighted security concerns which could affect millions of users."

The report also revealed:

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Mike Gee

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