An Israeli security firm will expose a flaw common to thousands of iPhone and iPad applications, which allows miscreants to hijack software using man-in-the-middle attacks.
“We identified a very large number of applications that are vulnerable to this problem,” Skycure’s CTO Yair Amit told The Register. The programming error will be revealed at the RSA Europe conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday.
“Usually we go through responsible disclosure and contact specific vendors of programs, solve it, then talk about it. In this case it’s an interesting challenge in that there’s a huge amount of applications, too many to have an organized disclosure route, so we give developers the information they need to fix the applications.”
Source: The Register
