Secure Coding Practices Out The Window With Mobile Apps

Hungry Man · Feb 10, 2012

http://www.darkreading.com/mobile-s...ractices-out-the-window-with-mobile-apps.html

Developers not applying secure development life cycle practices in mobile app production

With every business from the tiniest SMB to the largest enterprise looking to plant its flag in the ground with regard to mobile applications, the mobile app development boom is on in a very big way. Amid this blind rush to beat the competition to the market, mobile developers are feeling their way around in the dark -- and with a development environment still in its infancy and no real standards to lead the way, it's an adventure for all parties involved.
Particularly scary to many security professionals is the fact that the speedy mobile development cycle and this lack of experience in the platforms is causing coders to throw all of those secure development principles the industry has fought for over the past five years right out the window when it comes to mobile apps.
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Carver · Feb 11, 2012

Citi has traced the error to its nascent iPad application. Other mobile applications and the bank’s broader online bill payment system were immune from the problem, the bank said.
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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/online-users-of-citibank-bill-pay-app-charged-twice/?hpw
This I find not particularly encouraging ether.

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