{"id":13555,"date":"2013-09-26T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cellphonebeat.com\/?p=13555"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:09:18","slug":"how-apple-is-improving-mobile-app-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-httpsdrpremcom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/tech\/how-apple-is-improving-mobile-app-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple is improving mobile app security?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"Grow<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

Apple has gone to great lengths to ensure that users of its mobile operating system feel safe when they use their devices for everyday activities from browsing the Web to updating their banking accounts. The scientists at Georgia Tech managed to get a specially crafted app that could perform all sorts of malicious activities and is aptly named\u00a0Jekyll, onto the App Store. It bypasses every single security measure put in place by Apple to protect its users.<\/p>\n

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\"apple\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By enforcing a stringent set of rules that determine which software can and cannot run on its devices, the company has, for the most part, managed to keep its customers safe from malicious software.<\/p>\n

App Review<\/b><\/p>\n

During review each app is manually tested to ensure that it doesn\u2019t crash in any obvious way and that it conforms to all the appropriate App Store rules. Before landing on the Apple store each app is manually reviewed by Apple for flaws and malware. Despite having been largely successful at keeping malware out of the App Store, the review process has its limits.<\/p>

\n\"Dr<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

And this is where iOS\u2019s software-based defenses kick in. Each app that runs on an iPhone or iPad is allowed to read and write files only\u00a0inside a virtual \u201csandbox\u201d that the operating system creates for it. Any attempt to access data outside of the sandbox is rejected outright, thus effectively allowing apps to communicate with each other only through approved channels that Apple has put in place\u00a0the sandbox prevent. To make a hacker\u2019s life even harder, iOS clearly separates areas of memory that are dedicated to code from those that are supposed to contain only\u00a0data a malicious app that has managed to slip through the review process from siphoning data that belongs to another app without the user\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n

\"mobile-app-security\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The real genius of this approach is that it improves security without limiting what apps can do or placing any additional burden on end users. The responsibility will be entirely on developers, who will be forced to explicitly request entitlements for the resources they need to access, and on Apple\u2019s reviewers, who will need to approve or reject those requests. As far as the customers are concerned, the apps they use every day will continue to ask whether they can access your contacts, location data, or photo albums, just like before. Behind the scenes, however, a whole new layer of security will help prevent hackers\u2019 attacks on your personal information. \t<\/p>\n

\n\"Dr<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n
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