upright on the heels of a major malware attack on the App Store,mobile analytics service SourceDNA discovered another potential security breach in the form of private APIs being used in hundreds of apps which bypassed Apple’s app review process to collect private user data without the user’s permission. READ MORE: Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability, and the only way to protect yourself is to uninstall Flash Before you scramble to delete every app on your iPhone or iPad, and SourceDNA says that a huge majority of the apps appear to be from Chinese developers. After examining the advertising SDK contained within the affected apps,SourceDNA realized that all of the code was coming from the same company: Chinese advertiser Youmi. During the
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