Security News

Apple’s Shazam App Boots Facebook Ads and Other Third-Party SDKs
2019-02-20 20:10

The music-recognition app that Apple bought for $400 million is removing Facebook Ads, DoubleClick, Facebook Analytics and more.

YubiHSM SDK secures infrastructures and cryptographic key material
2018-11-27 19:59

Yubico released a new open source YubiHSM 2 (hardware security module) software development kit (SDK) available for developers and engineers to implement the YubiHSM 2 for an unlimited amount of...

Cheetah Mobile Blames SDKs for Rampant Ad Fraud in Its Android Apps
2018-11-27 19:55

Eight popular Android apps are embezzling from the ad ecosystem on a widespread basis, according to allegations.

German e-government SDK patched against ID spoofing vulnerability
2018-11-22 11:45

Alice becomes Bob Germany has patched a key "e-government" service against possible impersonation attacks, and both private and public sector developers have been told to check their logs for...

Ping Identity improves PingFederate and PingID SDK
2018-06-26 12:09

Ping Identity announced enhancements to PingFederate and PingID SDK that improve the authentication flow and make it easier to provide adaptive authentication within consumer-facing mobile...

Popular Android Apps Leak User Data via Third-Party SDKs
2018-04-19 01:04

Popular mobile applications that use third-party, ready-to-go advertising Software Development Kits (SDKs) expose user data by transmitting it over the insecure HTTP protocol, Kaspersky Lab warns....

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs
2018-04-17 09:15

Mobile apps leak personal data via insecure ads that transmit ad-targeting data insecurely.

Android Spyware Linked to Chinese SDK Forces Google to Boot 500 Apps (Threatpost)
2017-08-22 17:28

More than 500 Android mobile apps have been removed from Google Play after it was discovered that an embedded advertising SDK called Igenix could be leveraged to quietly install spyware on devices.

Facebook Delegated Account Recovery SDKs Published for Java, Ruby Apps (Threatpost)
2017-04-18 17:45

At F8 today, Facebook released SDKs and documentation for the integration of Delegated Account Recovery into Java, NodeJS and Ruby applications.

Android apps based on Adobe AIR SDK send out unencrypted data (Help Net Security)
2016-09-15 18:12

Developers using the Adobe AIR SDK should update to the latest version of the software development kit and rebuild the apps as soon as possible if they don’t want their users’ traffic being...