December 2016 - APP SECURITY INSIGHTS

How Often Are Mobile Apps Hacked?

Mobile apps are hacked on a near-constant basis. Somewhere right now, someone is attempting to hack one of your apps. Someone else has already hacked an app or two. And thousands of app users are learning that their data has been compromised. Mobile app hacks can be costly to your business and pose significant inconveniences. They can also place your...

Mobile App Security

The Biggest Security Dangers For Mobile App Developers

Mobile app developers face an increasingly challenging development environment. Not only are there more apps than ever to compete with; a virtual army of hackers endeavors to destroy what you’ve created with an array of security dangers to your mobile apps. From stealing customer data to hacking your servers, your app exposes you and your users to a seemingly infinite...

Mobile App Security/Security Threats

The Current State of Mobile App Security and Our Predictions on How it Will Improve in 2017

Your mobile apps are under near-constant attack from more people than you might realize: mischievous adolescent hackers who only want to see if it can be done; terrorists looking to undermine our nation’s largest businesses; local and foreign criminals eager to steal your information and your credit cards. The list is seemingly endless, and constantly growing. Mobile app security trends...

News/Security Threats

98% of Mobile Apps Are Not Secure: Hidden Risks and What You Need to Know

98% of mobile apps aren’t secured against hacking threats. 75% fail even the most basic security tests, and 96% can easily be reverse engineered. Let that sink in for a moment. That means that almost all of the apps on the market today directly threaten the financial, emotional, and even physical well-being of their users. For app developers, this presents...

Mobile App Security/Mobile App Security Testing/Security Threats

7 Mobile Application Security Testing Tools

Mobile application security experts detect hundreds of threats per hour, with more than 6,000 per hour coming from China alone. Shockingly, for the first time in human history, there are now more mobile devices than there are people living on Earth. Consumers also spend 87% of their phone time using mobile apps, creating plenty of opportunities for security breaches.

Mobile App Security/Mobile App Security Testing

What is Mobile App Security?

Every industry is rapidly realizing the incredible benefits that mobile apps provide. At the same time, this realization could result in dangerous dilemmas. Mobile apps are an extremely smart and beneficial addition to your company/organization, but failing to set up security for them at the same time is the same as offering your business’s delicate material out on a silver...

Mobile App Security/Mobile Security

7 Facts About Mobile Security Your Business Should Know

We all know there are some real vultures out there. Every time the good guys come up with a new way to protect us, they swoop in and immediately find a counter attack. No one is invincible to their game. 56% of the top 100 paid apps for Apple IOS have been hacked. The fact that the average person carries most...

Mobile Security/Security Threats

Mobile security startup Seworks raises $8.2 million from SoftBank, Qualcomm, Samsung, others

Seworks, a mobile security startup that serves to protect apps from hacks, has raised $8.2 million in a Series A round from SoftBank Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Smilegate Investment, and Wonik Investment Partners. Founded out of San Francisco in 2013 by a “globally famous” team of white-hat hackers, Seworks’ main customer-facing brand is actually AppSolid, a product that developers...

Anti Hacking Software/Mobile App Security/News

How The Flood of Mobile Apps Pose Growing Security Threats

There’s an app for everything. From monitoring health to scanning documents, and with options to play, work, and communicate in every imaginable fashion, consumers are gobbling apps up like candy. These apps are a growing security threat to businesses, consumers, and even to app developers themselves.

Anti Hacking Software/Mobile App Security/Security Threats

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