Monday, June 25, 2018

Can someone write a book with a title that is something like "Cloud Security for Developers"

Researchers from mobile security firm Appthority discovered that many app developers' fail to properly secure their back-end Firebase endpoints with firewalls and authentication, leaving hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data (over 100 million data records, including plain text passwords, user IDs, location, and in some cases, financial records such as banking and cryptocurrency transactions) of their customers publicly accessible to anyone


They  scanned over 2.7 million apps and found that more than 3,000 apps—2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps—were leaking a whole 2,300 databases with more than 100 million records, making it a giant breach of over 113 gigabytes of data

https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/mobile-security-firebase-hosting.html

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