Apple to Remove Apps Using Private APIs

Apple said it will remove 256 misbehaving apps from its App Store that were using private APIs to pull personal and device information that would allow a user to be tracked. SourceDNA, an analytics company that specializes in studying the iOS and Android mobile app stores, privately disclosed to...

Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another, similar flaw has surfaced. The new vulnerability is related to how the AFNetworking library handles...

Critical SSL Vulnerability Leaves 25,000 iOS Apps Vulnerable to Hackers

A critical vulnerability resides in AFNetworking could allow an attacker to cripple the HTTPS protection of 25,000 iOS apps available in Apple's App Store via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks. AFNetworking is a popular open-source code library that lets developers drop networking capabilities into...