Don't trust your apps; they might be talking behind your back
IBTimes | December 07, 2015
Almost nine percent of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users' security and privacy, according to a new University of California-Riverside study. The team is now developing a tool that allows users to evaluate the riskiness of individual apps before downloading them. The researchers conducted a large-scale analysis of URLs embedded in 13,500 free android apps downloaded from Google Play.