Fake iPhone Camera+ App Allowed in App Store
A fake version of the popular Camera+ iPhone application was offered on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, according to a post by Glyn Evans on the iPhoneography blog on Saturday, just the latest...
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Phony Temple Run Game For Android Plays On Android-iOS App Gap
Scammers are using the super-popular Temple Run game for iOS as bait to lure Android users into installing a phony version of the game on their phones. The incident comes amid reports of an explosion...
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Path Reverses Course After Revelation That App Uploads User Contacts
After a researcher discovered that any person who decides to download the Path app onto their mobile device is unknowingly sending their address book to a server belonging to the social network and...
View ArticleApple Clamps Down, Begins to Reject Apps Looking for UDID Numbers
Facing mounting privacy concerns, Apple has begun to reject mobile applications that require access to an iOS device's unique device identifier number (UDID), according to a report from the Web site...
View ArticleMalicious iOS Tor Browser in Apple App Store
An iOS Tor Browser hosted for download on Apple’s notoriously restrictive App Store is reportedly a fake. Worse yet, not only is the application said to be illegitimate, but also allegedly malicious....
View ArticleMobile Android, iOS Apps Still Vulnerable to FREAK Attacks
FireEye scanned iOS and Android apps downloaded billions of times in aggregate and determined that, despite the availability of patches, because the apps still connect to vulnerable HTTPS servers,...
View ArticleApple Patches Remote ‘Invoice Vulnerability’ in iTunes, App Store
Apple recently patched a serious issue in its App Store and iTunes Store web apps that could have let a remote attacker inject their own malicious script code into invoices that come from Apple.
View ArticleVulnerabilities Leave iTunes, App Store Open to Script Injection
Researchers say iTunes and Apple's App Store suffer from a persistent input validation and mail encoding web vulnerability. If exploited, it could allow an attacker to inject their own malicious script.
View ArticleAbuse of Apple Search Ads Feature Leading to Fraud
Apple has removed one of its top 10 grossing productivity apps after an independent developer’s story about fraudsters’ abuse of the App Store’s Search Ads functionality went viral.
View ArticleiOS Fitness Apps Robbing Money From Apple Victims
The two apps, “Fitness Balance App” and “Calories Tracker app,” were tricking users into payments of $120.
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