Mobile Application Security Threats

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Mobile Application Security Threats
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Introduction

• Mobile application security has come up as a
  great concern in the recent times as the mobile
  security breach cases have increased
  significantly. Today when it comes to mobile
  applications for open-source operating system
  like Android, hackers can quite comfortably get
  through your application to get an access to your
  precious data. And therefore, you need to discuss
  with your mobile application development company
  partner to add extra security parameters to your
  mobile app.

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Introduction

• In case, if a mobile application is hacked or if
  there is any security breach there are various
  risks associated to it like unauthorised data
  access, risk of defaming of a companys
  reputation, manipulation of data, etc. But, what
  are the factors which cause these mobile app
  security threats. Let us see what are the
  perspective mobile application development
  services need to focus on in order to develop
  purely secure apps

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• Server Side Authorisation Is Weak
• The signal and response generated by the app
  based on users query is based on the response
  from a server and this communication on the
  server side is prone to be easily hacked by the
  hackers. As a precautionary measure, you need to
  hire top Android app developers who make sure
  that all the traditional security parameters are
  taken into consideration and met.

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• Server Side Authorisation Is Weak
• The developers need to employ an automated
  scanner that could scan the app and server for
  these security threats and hint them. The main
  reasons for these security bugs is small app
  development budget and high dependability on the
  OS inbuilt security. However, lack of authorised
  access levels can also be responsible for
  security breaches.

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• Binary Protection Standards Does Not Match
• One of the main reasons why security breaches
  take place is lack of binary protection. If your
  web and mobile app development company fails to
  include binary protection to your app the hackers
  can easily hack it by reversing the code and
  manipulating it by injecting a malware. This can
  add as a possible threat and can be responsible
  for data theft, frauds, loss of any secure
  finance data, etc.

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• Binary Protection Standards Does Not Match
• To make sure that it is not the case, you need
  to discuss with your mobile application
  development company partner to use the binary
  hardening techniques they are familiar with for
  your app development. This technique makes the
  binary files secure and proofs them against any
  common hacking or security exploits. It can
  automatically fix the vulnerabilities in the
  legacy code without modifying the source code.

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• Insecure Storage Issues Are Common
• One of the main reasons that are giving rise to
  security threats in mobile applications is the
  issue of improper and not so secure data storage.
  In the cases where the budget is low and the
  development team could not make it up for data
  storage on their end, they depend on the client
  side for data storage.

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• Insecure Storage Issues Are Common
• In this case, the client side has an insecure
  data storage environment which is not sandboxed
  and therefore is prone to security breaches. To
  avoid this, mobile application development
  solutions company generally add an extra layer of
  encryption upon the base layer, which makes the
  app secure against any security breach and
  unauthorised access.

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