I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
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Not really, it's explicit in the article quote that these are taken from Google Play,
You are correct here... I may missed it because I was in the rush to catch the bus back home.
But be aware that they can be also published back to the Google Play store, and this is more common then Android users may think, but people that work in infosec are well aware of this.
Thanks for letting me know. I will update my article.
Of course, no app store is perfect, unfortunately. I do think Google does a decent job of directing people to legitimate actors when it comes to services such as this, in my own anecdotal experience.
I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
Location
Scotland
Education
Self teached Developer
Work
Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
Well I am not really trying to blame only the Google Play store for this, but just trying to start a discussion around it to make people more aware of the problem.
Do you want to share with us your anecdotal experience?
Nothing really special or unusual as far as I know, but when I sought to download relevant banking applications or enterprise authentication, Play store usually jumps the correct app to the top of the list and disqualifies even searching for other apps without my manual choice to navigate away from the desired result.
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You are correct here... I may missed it because I was in the rush to catch the bus back home.
But be aware that they can be also published back to the Google Play store, and this is more common then Android users may think, but people that work in infosec are well aware of this.
Thanks for letting me know. I will update my article.
Of course, no app store is perfect, unfortunately. I do think Google does a decent job of directing people to legitimate actors when it comes to services such as this, in my own anecdotal experience.
Well I am not really trying to blame only the Google Play store for this, but just trying to start a discussion around it to make people more aware of the problem.
Do you want to share with us your
anecdotal experience
?Nothing really special or unusual as far as I know, but when I sought to download relevant banking applications or enterprise authentication, Play store usually jumps the correct app to the top of the list and disqualifies even searching for other apps without my manual choice to navigate away from the desired result.