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4 Mobile App Security Vulnerabilities You Should Know About

Did you know that every year, the number of mobile vulnerabilities keep increasing? This puts the end-user at the risk of malicious attacks such as identity theft, credential theft, data loss, fraudulent transactions, and many more severe threats that could hamper your customers’ and organization’s data.

In fact, in the second quarter of 2018 alone, nearly 71% of the fraudulent transactions came from mobile applications or browsers, a rise of 16% from 2017.

There are many mobile app security vulnerabilities, however, some of them are more prominent than others and are more detrimental to users as well as organizations. Here is a list of the top 4 mobile app security vulnerabilities that you should be aware of:

Aaron Cure

Aaron Cure is the Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor and contributing author for the Dev544 Secure Coding in .NET course. After 10 years in the U.S. Army, I decided to switch my focus to developing security tools and performing secure code reviews, penetration testing, static source code analysis, and security research.

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