Thousands of iPhone Application access the iPhone User's data without permission

Jakarta - the usual applications downloaded by iPhone users, there are many who 'play back'. Among them were able to track a user's location without permission. According to the results of research conducted BitDefender, one of five applications on the iPhone known to be able to access the address book user without being noticed. While 41% were able to track the location of users and many applications that access the data without permission. Though in default , applications on the App Store just asking permission to access the site to access the service and not the 'address book' or other private functions. This is what is feared could make the abuse of such data. BitDefender is conducting a study of more than 65 thousand popular applications on the App Store found only 57.5% are encrypting stored data, while the rest do not. With the remaining 41.4% that is, most owners iPhone has at least one application on a device that is able to know where they are. study also reveals as much as 18.6% of the applications can access the address book of users, including all contact details. "It is worrying, encryption of data stored on the IOS application fairly low and commonly mistaken for location tracking, but it is not. Without any notice of an application is given the freedom to access, difficult to control what information the user is found, "said Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Researcher at BitDefender, as detikINET quotes from Cellular News , Thursday ( 07.19.2012). "We are concerned with the view of the lack of encryption of user data is. Tracking the location of secretly can not be justified, including the access address book , "he grumbled.