The Uber app found spyware feature – media

2017-10-07 16:50

The Uber app found spyware feature – media
IPhone app reads data from iPhone.

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The Uber app was a feature in which without notice to the user to read from the iPhone screen. How notes portal Gizmodo, the record was done, even if the Uber app worked in the background.

All this became possible thanks to the inclusion in the program code Uber for iOS right to activate a variety of functions.

However, experts alarmed by one moment. Configure push notifications, the ability to interact with iCloud or Apple Pay and other features are available for all developers. But reading data from your iPhone – no. It is, according to official information, were intended to improve the memory management of the Apple Watch. According to experts, it was necessary to obtain special approval from Apple.

According to researcher safety, Director-General Sudo Security Group will Straffa, he found other programs that would have had the same opportunities.

“I wonder how Uber has persuaded Apple to allow it,“ said Straff.

The danger in providing such access is that an Uber, or a hacker who managed to penetrate the network of Uber, could track the activity on the screen of the iPhone user to collect passwords and other personal information.

After this in fact spyware feature was discovered in ?ber stated that it is no longer used and will be removed.

Recall that with the Uber app linked to another scandal. In the summer of 2017, the users found mobile the program tracks their movement, even if it will not start, that is in the background.