Message to IT: Trusting Apple and Google for mobile app security is career suicide
Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn't want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.
We'll plunge into the details momentarily, but here's the upshot: "High-risk vulnerabilities were found in 38 percent of mobile applications for iOS and in 43 percent of Android applications" and "most cases are caused by weaknesses in security mechanisms — 74 percent and 57 percent for iOS and Android apps, respectively, and 42 percent for server-side components — because such vulnerabilities creep in during the design stage, fixing them requires significant changes to code."