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McAfee Warns of Persistent Mobile MITM Flaws

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By Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine

Over 70% of the 25 most downloaded mobile apps identified as vulnerable to Man in the Middle attacks last year have still not been fixed, potentially affecting millions of users, according to McAfee.

The Intel Security vendor’s McAfee Labs Threats Report for February 2015 revisits Carnegie Mellon CERT research from last year which found that over 20,000 Android apps failed to validate SSL certificates via HTTPS properly, exposing them to MITM attacks.

[Source] http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mcafee-warns-of-persistent-mobile/?utm_campaign=Top10%3A%20McAfeeWarnsPersistentMobile&utm_source=ENewsletter03%2F03&utm_medium=Email

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