Major Security Holes Found In Mobile Bank Apps 107
NeverVotedBush writes with this excerpt from CNet:
"A security firm disclosed holes today in mobile apps from Bank of America, USAA, Chase, Wells Fargo and TD Ameritrade, prompting a scramble by most of the companies to update the apps. ... Specifically, viaForensics concluded that: the USAA's Android app stored copies of Web pages a user visited on the phone; TD Ameritrade's iPhone and Android apps were storing the user name in plain text on the phone; Wells Fargo's Android app stored user name, password, and account data in plain text on the phone; Bank of America's Android app saves a security question (used if a user was accessing the site from an unrecognized device) in plain text on the phone; and Chase's iPhone app stores the username on a phone if the user chose that option, according to the report. Meanwhile, the iPhone apps from USAA, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Vanguard and PayPal's Android app all passed the security tests and were found to be handling data securely."
Re:iPhone win? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It couldn't be... (Score:4, Funny)
That may be true but I keep my cash stuffed in my mattress.
And thanks to the facebook leak, google maps and the average persons willingness to announce their plans on twitter, it is even easier to steal it from your mattress.
'droid and Iphone -- a young man's game (Score:1, Funny)
Young and foolish developers are mostly the ones who have had time to really move onto mobile platforms. Whaddya expect from whipper snappers that haven't lived through the wars?