In their 2016 Mobile Security Report, NowSecure reported that we spend 87 percent of the time on our mobile devices using apps, with an average of 53,309 mobile apps released on the Apple App Store each month in 2015. The wide categories and constantly increasing number of apps makes consumers progressively susceptible to downloading free apps that may request access to information they should not require.
When consumers agree to an app’s permissions, they rarely take the time to understand what information the app is requiring them to share. The permissions that we readily submit to may also be giving the app access to our location, photographs, phone contacts and even search histories. But experts warn that some free apps may go even further. As with most things in the digital/cyber arena, a level of caution and professional scepticism needs to be an active part of everything one does while online. Free apps, are of course, not an exclusion of this. Application stores only have a limited level of power to protect the user from the risks associated with free apps as the user needs to accept the various permissions any application is requesting. Therefore, because the user is “opting in” or accepting the permission requests, there is very little technical expertise needed to perform an attack via a malicious application. For the full article click here
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