Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:55PM from the little-of-this-little-of-that dept.

New submitter Brett W (3715683) writes The security researchers that first published the 'Heartbleed' vulnerabilities in OpenSSL have spent the last few months auditing the Top 50 downloaded Android apps for vulnerabilities and have found issues with at least half of them. Many send user data to ad networks without consent, potentially without the publisher or even the app developer being aware of it. Quite a few also send private data across the network in plain text. The full study is due out later this week.

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Re:Not surprised by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-27 16:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Not surprised that android apps are full of holes. The whole android concept was designed to treat people like commodities in a way never before possible. The whole Ecosystem is *engineered* to have holes.
Do they pay you in MSFT stock or cash?