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back to article When it comes to spaffing your login creds, Android biz apps are the business

Business apps for Android are three times more likely to leak login credentials than the average app, according to a new study by security firm NowSecure. An analysis of more than 400,000 apps available from the Google Play store discovered that a quarter of all apps have at least one high risk security flaw, with 11 per cent …

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  1. PleebSmasher
    Dead Vulture

    situation normal

    Hey, they said it was a business app. They weren't kidding!

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  2. MyffyW Silver badge

    Welcome to Android

    The MS-DOS of tablet computing.

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  3. Darryl

    Security firm NowSecure

    Remind me... What are they trying to sell again?

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  4. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Holmes

    business, finance, games, shopping, and social

    Right, so let me get this straight. Business apps are 3 times worse than average for data leaks. Games are 1.5 times worse than average. So this means that the remaining three are all average or below average in terms of data leaks, or al least one of the remain categories has to be well below average in data leaks. Of finance, shopping and social I'm finding it hard to work out which category is the "safe" one.

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  5. frichards

    omg

    I'll buy two.

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