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September 9, 2020 03:42 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i_YHke5pOJc/academics-find-crypto-bugs-in-306-popular-android-apps-none-get-patched
Academics Find Crypto Bugs in 306 Popular Android Apps, None Get Patched
A team of academics from Columbia University has developed a custom tool to dynamically analyze Android applications and see if they're using cryptographic code in an unsafe way. From a report: Named CRYLOGGER, the tool was used to test 1,780 Android applications, representing the most popular apps across 33 different Play Store categories, in September and October 2019. Researchers say the tool, which checked for 26 basic cryptography rules (mentioned in the source story), found bugs in 306 Android applications. Some apps broke one rule, while others broke multiple.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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