Comments on: Mobile security remains flaky on smartphone apps https://javacard.vetilles.com/2010/11/14/mobile-security-remains-flaky-on-smartphone-apps/ A weblog on Java Card, security, and other things personal Thu, 18 May 2017 07:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Eric Vétillard https://javacard.vetilles.com/2010/11/14/mobile-security-remains-flaky-on-smartphone-apps/#comment-4278 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:32:46 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/?p=645#comment-4278 Most applications don’t need to be secure, because they just don’t have any assets to protect. It is quite likely that marketing apps belong to that category.

In Android, applications are somehow isolated from each other, which limits the harm that such applications can do to sensitive ones.

The applications that I am talking about in this entry are highly sensitive ones, related to payment, money transfers, and similar things. Such applications have assets to protect, and what researchers have proven is that they just don’t protect these assets.

]]> By: jmones https://javacard.vetilles.com/2010/11/14/mobile-security-remains-flaky-on-smartphone-apps/#comment-4277 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:08:56 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/?p=645#comment-4277 Unfortunately, a lot of mobile applications have now a very short lifecycle. Some of them feel more close to marketing campaigns than to computing applications.

In this context, it is no surprise they are insecure, don’t you think?

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