Android. A critical problem has been announced for phones all over the world, and it is extremely important to know what you are exposing yourself to when you use your mobile devices every day. More specifically, a new study has revealed that approximately 40% of applications for the Android and iOS operating systems have major vulnerabilities that endanger both ordinary users and their phones, and the problem is a very serious one at the moment.
Android. The main problem is based on the way user data is stored in the applications installed in the phones, the vulnerabilities allowing their access without the users knowing it. According to the study, 43% of Android applications and 38% of iOS applications have vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized access to user data, and of course we are only talking about third-party applications available in the App Store and Google Play.
Android. CRITICAL Problem Announced! ATTENTION Phones!
Android. Of all these applications, 89% of them can be exploited by malware, and this means that hackers do not have to have access to people's phones to retrieve the data from them. With 205 billion downloads made during 2018 for phones with Android and iOS operating systems, it is quite clear that we are talking about a very large number of phones that are affected by these problems, and Apple and Google definitely know about their existence .
"In 2018, mobile apps were downloaded onto user devices over 205 billion times. Developers pay painstaking attention to software design in order to give us a smooth and convenient experience and people gladly install mobile apps and provide personal information. However, an alarming number of apps are critically insecure, and far less developer attention is spent on solving that issue. Stealing data from a smartphone usually doesn't even require physical access to the device."
Android. Unfortunately, the problem is that the applications must have their vulnerabilities solved directly by their developers, not by Apple and Google, who cannot modify the respective titles in any way. Apple and Google can force the developers to solve the very big problems of the applications they distribute, but in the meantime the users of Android and iOS phones remain exposed, especially since they don't even know which of the applications have vulnerabilities.
Android. The only real solution is to install in your phones only applications from well-known developers that you trust, and avoid those from unknown sources.
