Mobile apps are potential target for cyber-attacks: Report

Cellphones with mobile apps could be potential target of cyber attacks globally and subscribers’ data including usernames and passwords are at risk, security software maker McAfee said today. The failure of mobile application developers to patch critical secure sockets layer vulnerabilities could potentially impact millions of mobile phone users, according to McAfee Labs Threats Report: February 2015. It said that in September 2014, Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University released a list of vulnerable mobile applications and McAfee Labs in January tested the 25 most popular apps on the list. “Given these numbers, McAfee Labs’ findings suggest that the choice by mobile app developers to not patch the SSL vulnerabilities has potentially put millions of users at risk of becoming targets of MITM attacks,” it added.