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Mobile applications allowing transmission of unencrypted or weakly encrypted data, which is more susceptible to attacks.

It is more important to use appropriate encryption methods to safeguard the sensitive data during its transfer from the app to the server and back.

Developers often miss to use proper encryption controls that protects the data. Due to this, the user’s face a type of hacking risk called “man-in-the-middle” attack.

Moreover, many app developers forget to turn on a pop-up alert that will warn an app user if they’re at the risk of eavesdropping.

If the web server is inappropriately configured, third party users can easily gain unauthorized access to sensitive resources.

In order to work properly, Mobile apps have to communicate with a server, but the problem is this can open up the server to data breaches.

A typical mobile app needs the server only for a few functions. But, developers often mistakenly allow the servers to use/access lot of unnecessary data and processes from outside networks. This puts the server at risk.

To avoid this, the developer should be able to recognize exactly what is exposed by the server. All of these insecure data should be secured properly to prevent data breaches..

Without proper security, apps can be highly susceptible to hacking.

Two of the most popular types of hacks are called cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection ( SQLi).

While these attacks are highly technical, the one thing you need to know is that both the hacks will essentially steal information i.e. XSS steals it from the user (passwords, logins, cookies, etc.) and SQLi steals information from the corporate databases (it can also delete sensitive information).

You need to make sure that the developer team is having the app tested against both types of hacks. There are a number of automated services out there that will do this for you. Also ask your developer if he/she is testing the app for all sort of vulnerabilities.

Developers are adding a lot of advanced functionalities into today’s mobile apps – like near field communication (NFC) and QR code readers. However, in many cases, developers fail to realize that these special features require a higher level of security.

Without the proper security precautions, they can expose the app to a whole new set of potential attacks.

You need to have a qualified security device that test the app’s advanced features against different types of hack attacks. This is the only way to ensure these features won’t undermine your security.

Unauthorized access into a mobile application allows users to see the accounts of other users or even access deeper components of the system including administrative controls.

Unauthorized requests should be verified by the server and internal alerts should be triggered if there are a lot of such requests.

Software developers have to understand the specific device’s features from the data security point of view to be able to decide what components should or should not be included into the application, especially when these components are of third party origin.