applications for iOS have more vulnerabilities than Android applications, or at least that's what a new study conducted by an American company suggests after analyzing hundreds of applications of both platforms.
The company analyzed applications from various categories of App Store or Google Play and came to the conclusion that iOS applications have more vulnerabilities than Android applications, and here we are talking about unencrypted data transfer, displaying passwords in cleartext and many others.
In the top of the vulnerabilities, with 27% of the total, are the problems regarding the unencrypted transmission of personal data of the users, the unsecured authorizations occupying the second position, while other vulnerabilities regarding the possibility of retrieving application logs or information regarding the validation of entries completed top.
The most common vulnerability, which accounted for 27 percent of all vulnerabilities found, was leakage of personal or sensitive information. Authentication and authorization problems were in second place at 23 percent, followed by configuration management at 16 percent. Other vulnerabilities include availability, cryptography weaknesses, disclosure of technical information such as application logs, and input validation handling.
On average, 40% of iOS application vulnerabilities are critical, while only 36% of Android application vulnerabilities have such a high degree of importance, so we are practically not talking about such a big difference between the two platforms.
Because we are talking here about applications and not about the platforms themselves, you should know that the task of securing applications "falls" to the application developers and not to Apple or Google, so the problems are with the developers and not with the two companies.
The even bigger problem is that more and more applications of banks or other financial institutions have very big security problems, and this is surprising since they should, in theory, be the most secure applications in stores.
