Google Security at Stake- Android Apps

Android surely is doing great in the app market but still, perfectionism hasn’t been noticed.  But the new step observed isn’t surely appreciable in comparison with Google. Android applications haven’t been property verified till now; still, it takes a bigger step to launch an operating system up to malware. Experts bring it into notice as a matter of insecurity.

Researchers are highly influential to the decision. Analysts from Germany’s Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg have found that Google’s Play Market consists of more than 41 applications that unrevealed sensitive data when it flew smoothly in the handsets supported by Ice-Cream Sandwich. This has also been noticed in the web servers of banks offering online services.

The brawl of the apps doesn’t see an end here, also if you connect this device to a local search network that engages itself in various eminent exploits. Among them, few are available online to putter the relevance to defeat the secure sockets layer and deport these layers as instructed by the apps.

These apps are well-known in the market, and as the stats show- already 39.5 million have been already downloaded and 185 times. So not to wonder many of the Androids are at stake.

The analysis reports say that the payment credentials of PayPal, American Express, and others can also be easily bunched up.

The list of botheration even includes Facebook, email, and cloud storage credentials also lie in the danger arena. Access to IP cameras can easily be amassed also the channels can be controlled for apps and remote servers can be easily capsized.

It has also been noticed that the can of worms also has touched the brittleness of the SSL and TLS protocols, which has altogether provided a platform for virtual encryption between the website and its users.

Technology isn’t un-secure rather its protection can be attenuated when the certificate authors don’t immune to the framework.

The stats even show further numerical data. The analysts have downloaded 13,500 free apps from Google Play to verify the SSL implementation of the apps were influentially vulnerable to “ man-in-the-middle” exploits, as reported.

The outcomes of the research showcased 1,074 apps or eight percent of the sample, as you prefer, that contained SSL-specific code that would either welcome all the certificates or all the hostnames eligible for a certificate and finally they are assailable to MITM mishaps.

One thing that I really feel strange is that the story narrated by the researchers doesn’t consider any comparison with the Apple Apps.

Researchers gave their profound version of the comment “the openness of the Google platform made it easier to perform static analysis and zero in on the apps with SSL implementations that exposed sensitive user data. In other words, it was easier to test which apps were vulnerable using a system they invented. Apple software could also be vulnerable, but it’s harder to come up with an accurate test for it.”

But the main verdict of concern still remains on the same edge; the culpability for the apps is most probably worldwide, pointing to all the Android smartphones. So give it a check, analysts have spoken a lot, now it’s your turn to review.

-Authored by Sara Bruce. She is an SEO analyst and an avid blogger. If you come across any negative reviews about your Business/Services do visit our pages on ‘Remove negative reviews’ & ‘Remove rip-off reports’ to get rid of it.