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Apple mobile devices vulnerable to app. attack
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1619082" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>This is a tricky one since it works by exploiting the one weakness in security - lack of knowledge on the part of users. This looks like a very easy breach of security to propagate since people can be easily enticed by the promise of free things, that importantly, <em>look legitimate</em>.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to guess that most users are unaware that apps ought to come from the App Store and that apps that don't are invalid. At a minimum, this highlights a hole in the authentication of installation on iOS. Here's hoping that this gets fixed in an 8.1.x bug fix release.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1619082, member: 71075"] This is a tricky one since it works by exploiting the one weakness in security - lack of knowledge on the part of users. This looks like a very easy breach of security to propagate since people can be easily enticed by the promise of free things, that importantly, [I]look legitimate[/I]. I'm going to guess that most users are unaware that apps ought to come from the App Store and that apps that don't are invalid. At a minimum, this highlights a hole in the authentication of installation on iOS. Here's hoping that this gets fixed in an 8.1.x bug fix release. [/QUOTE]
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