SDKs Could be the Trojan Horse for Millions of IPhones
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John Donne once said, “no man is an island.” If he lived in the 21st century, he might have said the same thing about software. Programs which, on the face of it, appear to be completely distinct entities, actually consist of dozens of other components made by other developers and companies.There are millions of third-party libraries and software development kits (SDKs) on the Internet. Developers download them and integrate them into their software, thereby saving them time when building features and functionality. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel for each thing they want to do.But are they also a #security Achilles heel? Bay Area security expert Felix Krauseexamined several of the most popular SDKs, and found many lacked transport-level security. Or, to put in plainer terms, they (...)