{"id":5420,"date":"2018-09-08T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2018-09-08T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:59:08","slug":"app-of-apple-app-store-caught-spying-on-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/08\/app-of-apple-app-store-caught-spying-on-users\/","title":{"rendered":"App of Apple App store caught Spying on users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/objective-see.com\/blog\/blog_0x37.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/09\/mac-adware-removal-tool.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A popular adware removal tool in the Apple App store has been found stealing users browser history which is a violation of Apple&#8217;s terms and services agreement.\u00a0 It&#8217;s breaking out of Apple&#8217;s typical sandboxing it makes it&#8217;s apps follow and steals the browser information.\u00a0 This data is being exfiltrated to a server located in China.\u00a0 An ex NSA staffer found this issue a while ago and notified Apple about it, but it took Apple over a month before they did anything about it.\u00a0 Eventually they did remove it from the app store.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how people think Apple is immune to these types of issues, but this is evidence that nobody is immune.\u00a0 Apple might do a better job than Microsoft or Google but they are just as susceptible as others.<\/p>\n<p>Sev Shirozian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/09\/mac-adware-removal-tool.html A popular adware removal tool in the Apple App store has been found stealing users browser history which is a violation of Apple&#8217;s terms and services agreement.\u00a0 It&#8217;s breaking out of Apple&#8217;s typical sandboxing it makes it&#8217;s apps follow and steals the browser information.\u00a0 This data is being exfiltrated to a server located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[714826],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-02-its-role-the-control-environment","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}