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Title: Apple wages battle to keep App Store malware-free
Post by: HCK on November 07, 2015, 03:00:13 am
Apple wages battle to keep App Store malware-free

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<p>Apple is facing growing challenges keeping suspicious mobile applications out of its App Store marketplace.</p><p>Over the last two months, researchers have found thousands of apps that could have potentially stolen data from iOS devices.</p><p>While the apps were not stealing data, security experts said it would have been trivial for attackers to configure them to do so. </p><p>Apple has removed (http://www.apple.com/cn/xcodeghost/#english) some of affected apps since it was alerted by security companies. But the problems threaten to taint the App Store’s years-long reputation as being high quality and malware free. Apple officials didn’t have an immediate comment.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3001862/business-security/apple-wages-battle-to-keep-app-store-malware-free.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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