Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about his discoveries this week at the RSA Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information – such as name, age, or income – due to app developers who fail to protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers.

 

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