Tag: mobile app

Thousands of applications running on this code have been found to be collecting and sharing private data.

According to researchers at Citizen Lab in Canada, there are currently thousands of popular mobile apps that are running code created by Baidu, the internet giant from China, and the code has been causing those applications to collect the personal information of the users and transmit it to the company.

The researchers pointed out that a great deal of that personal information would be very easy to intercept.

It is estimated that the mobile apps using Baidu’s code have had hundreds of millions of downloads. The researchers have traced the issue back to problems in the software development kit (SDK) by Baido for creating Android applications. The mobile security threat applies to the Baidu browser as well as the apps that were created by the company and other firms that employ the same SDK in their app development. That said, while it was primarily Android applications that were affected, the Windows browser from Baidu was also among them.

The same researchers said that comparable types of security issues were present in the Alibaba UC Browser mobile app.

The UC Browser from Alibaba and another popular mobile browser that is broadly downloaded and used in the largest internet market on the planet have also both been affected with unsecured personal data transmission.

That said, while Alibaba has already moved forward and has repaired the vulnerabilities, Baidu had yet to have completed that task at the time of the writing of this article. The company was, however, in the process of making the repairs to the holes in the kit’s encryption. Still, it admitted that it would not cease to collect data for commercial use. Some of the data collected by Baidu will also be shared with third parties. Still, the company said that it “only provides what data is lawfully requested by duly constituted law enforcement agencies.”

Among the unencrypted information collected through the Baidu code based mobile apps are the search terms that have been used by the user, his or her website visits, and his or her location. This, according to the Citizen Lab chief researcher, Jeffrey Knockel.

A study has shed some light on the way that activity differs from one platform to the next.

According to the results of a recent study, there is a considerable difference between the activities of Android device users and those using gadgets based on iOS, in terms of the way a mobile app is installed and used.

This research was focused on the Asian marketplace, where consumers use their devices uniquely in the world.

According to data from the AppsFlyer mobile marketing and analytics firm, consumers in the Asian marketplace employ their smartphones in a different way from consumers elsewhere on the globe. This includes their behaviors for the installation of a mobile app and they way they would use it. That said, the study also pointed out that even within the Asian space, there is a considerable difference in the way those applications are used and installed by Android users and iOS users.

The mobile app research was based on more than 1.1 billion non-organic installations of more than 6,000 applications.

It also took into consideration approximately 5 billion launches of those mobile applications, which occurred between June 1 and December 15, 2015. The goal of the study was to allow marketers – among others – to better comprehend the way in which mobile device users worldwide will install applications and when they will actually be used.

The mobile apps that were considered within this research included those within several different categories, such as games, social, shopping, entertainment, communication, music, travel, business, and others.

Interestingly, while installs were about even throughout the length of an average week, among Android based device users, this was not the case for Apple product users. iPhones and iPads saw the highest number of app installs on Thursdays and Fridays.

In the Asian market, Thursday is the most popular day for consumers to install mobile apps. In fact, install activity increases by an average of 27 percent on Thursday and Friday, when compared to the installs at the start of the week. That said, in North America and Europe, Thursday is considered to be among the least popular for that same purpose.