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Description: Blackhat 2012 EUROPE - Smartphone's Apps Are Not That Smart: Insecure Development Practices

https://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Rose/bh-eu-12-Rose-Smartphone_Apps-WP.pdf https://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Rose/bh-eu-12-Rose-Smartphone_Apps-Slides.pdf Mobile Apps is a growing business with thousands of applications to choose from across the dominants mobile platforms and new Apps released every week. Users install in their smartphones all kind of free Apps and many users are willing to pay for commercial ones usually due to low prices. Apps have become the new Web.

The Apps fever has provoked that thousands of developers, experienced and inexperienced, worldwide constantly release new and updated Apps to attract users so they become popular and in most cases make a profit. Unfortunately this development madness tends to sacrifice security and privacy.

This presentation unveils the ugly truth that too many Apps are highly insecure. The results are based on the security analysis performed on dozens of Apps on different smartphones by identifying flaws that can be avoided with safe development practices.

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