1,500 iPhone apps have a serious flaw that hackers can easily exploit

[Wireless News]

While security companies usually detail vulnerabilities in Android that hackers can use for malicious purposes, analytics service SourceDNA uncovered an encryption flaw that may-affect as many as 1,500 applications, Ars Technica reports. Among them, you’ll find some popular titles, including Citrix OpenVoice Audio Conferencing, the Alibaba.com mobile app, Movies by Flixster with Rotten Tomatoes, KYBankAgent 3.0, and Revo Restaurant Point of Sale. DON’T MISS: Finally, a sensible explanation of why you can’t buy the Apple Watch this Friday The company looked at a specific vulnerability in open-source AFNetworking, a resource that’s widely used by app developers to “drop networking capabilities into their apps.” Since being discovered, the issue has already been corrected, with various iOS apps having been-updated to also

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