App Permissions Posing a Great Threat to Security
F rom gaming application to banking application, from personal use to business use, from child to adult, a commonly used most popular word everyone would found. Its MOBILE PHONE . Yes, mobile phones or say smart phones nowadays are mostly used among any gadgets. There is a huge increase in use of smartphone in India from 524.9 million in 2013 to 813.2 million in 2019 and this is in urge of increment. (Data in millions) With increase in smart phones bring increase in number of mobile apps. Currently 2.8 millions apps are available for download in Google Play Store and about 2.2 million apps in Apple App Store. A normal person has about 60-90 apps installed on his/her smartphone but not use all of them. The ones in use are very less. All apps present on the play store or app store are not secure. Every 5 out of 7 apps in play store are infected and so every 3 out of 7 in apple app store. This means that we are really surrounded with malicious actors. Now let’s talk about how a...