"To secure data properly, developers need to specifically implement user authentication on all database tables and rows, which rarely happens in practice," Appthority writes in the report. "Moreover, ...

Five percent of the databases are vulnerable to threat actors: It’s a gold mine of exploit opportunity in thousands of mobile apps, researchers say. Thousands of mobile apps – some of which have been ...

The security research team at Comparitech has conducted an audit of hundreds of thousands of apps on the Google Play store. The research team found common misconfigurations on Google Firebase ...

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud ...