Millions of passwords, GPS locations, and financial records are sitting unprotected in plain sight — and yours could be one of them. Researchers at Appthority, a mobile security firm, scanned both ...

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 ...

"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, ...

Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases, according to a report released this week by mobile security firm ...

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 ...