“While on a cellular connection the vulnerability does still exist, cellular interception is more difficult, requires expensive hardware, is far more noticeable, and it is quite illegal (within the United States). Dozens of popular iPhone apps are vulnerable to attacks due to a flaw that lets hackers access data being sent from a device to the cloud . A blog post by online security expert Michael Strafach named 17 apps that are considered to be at low risk of " man in the middle " attacks , including the FirstBank PR Mobile Banking app but warned that 43 apps deemed medium to high risk will be named in another blog post in few days time , after developers have had an opportunity to fix the flaw .
Dozens of popular iPhone apps are vulnerable to attacks due to a flaw that lets hackers access data being sent from a device to the cloud . A blog post by online security expert Michael Strafach named 17 apps that are considered to be at low risk of " man in the middle " attacks , including the FirstBank PR Mobile Banking app but warned that 43 apps deemed medium to high risk will be named in another blog post in few days time , after developers have had an opportunity to fix the flaw .