Password-pilfering app exposes weakness in iOS and Android vetting process

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinNov 12, 2015, 4:28 pm508 pts
Highlighting crucial weaknesses in Apple's and Google's processes for admitting new titles into their competing app stores, both companies have ejected a third-party Instagram app after discovering it probably pilfered user passwords and pictures. InstaAgent, as the app was called, marketed itself as a program…

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