Security vulnerabilities were found in nearly all the 40 major online web platforms investigated by IOActive security consultant Alejandro Hernández . Hernández will present his research at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. Of the 16 desktop applications , 34 mobile apps and 10 websites analysed , more than half the desktop applications transmitted some data unencrypted , while several mobile apps and some desktop applications stored passwords unencrypted or sent them in plain text . On some web platforms , logging out did not end the attack on the server side . Meanwhile , some platforms allow users to create their own bots , but their common programming languages like C++ make them vulnerable to a similar attack .
Security vulnerabilities were found in nearly all the 40 major online web platforms investigated by IOActive security consultant Alejandro Hernández . Of the 16 desktop applications , 34 mobile apps and 10 websites analysed , more than half the desktop applications transmitted some data unencrypted , while several mobile apps and some desktop applications stored passwords unencrypted or sent them in plain text . On some web platforms , logging out did not end the attack on the server side . Meanwhile , some platforms allow users to create their own bots , but their common programming languages like C++ make them vulnerable to a similar attack .