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Now more than ever, we depend on smartphones to keep us connected to each other, to our employers, to our finances and healthcare providers. We use our phones to shop, bank, and access corporate applications and information. But are our iPhones as secure as they could be?
"iPhone owners tend to feel more confident in the security of their phones than Android owners, and for good reason," says Randy Pargman, former FBI computer scientist and senior director of threat hunting and counterintelligence at Binary Defense.
But that doesn't mean iOS is immune to security issues. Back in April, we learned attackers has been exploiting two unpatched iOS vulnerabilities since at least January 2018. Last year, researchers discovered more than 20,000 iOS apps were published without App Transport Security (ATS), a set of rules and app extensions Apple built as part of the Swift development platform. ATS is turned on by default; without it, critical information was being transported without encryption.
"It's true that iPhones and the whole Apple ecosystem keep customers safer from malicious apps, but that doesn't mean that all the data stored in the apps is safe from theft," Pargman continues. "Many apps store sensitive information on servers operated by the app developer or transfer the information unencrypted over the Internet. As soon as your information leaves your iPhone, it is outside of your control to protect it."
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