Millions of people are using Android apps that can be tricked into revealing personal data, research indicates.

Scientists tested 13,500 Android apps and found almost 8% failed to protect bank account and social media logins.

These apps failed to implement standard scrambling systems, allowing "man-in-the-middle" attacks to reveal data that passes back and forth when devices communicate with websites.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20025973

huh......this is not good news @all. Very dangerous trend

actually its BS, because ALL mobile platforms have this same flaw, android gets audited so easily because its open.

its not an issue with the platform its an issue with the app coders who simply are too lazy to do it right.

this was a big discussion yesterday on the internets and people who work for software security firms confirmed that its common to all platforms, but they could not point fingers because of the no disclosure clauses in their contracts.


bottomline is this things are everywhere, and at least the android ones always gets outed. try that with apple like charlie miller did and see their response