Some popular applications store sensitive data, such as usernames and passwords and credit card information in plain text format-format the phone memory, which is an easy target for hackers. Recently, the company Mobile viaForensics located in Chicago, both found after the end of the inspection of the most popular applications of the IDF and Android platform.

Some of the greatest name Android apps–such as Mail for Exchange and Hotmail, Foursquare and Groupon–saved the user access code and portions of the information that the user via the app, in plaintext on the phone memory for versions of the apps around the beginning of 2011 has been released.

Physical access to the phone. If the criminal is very difficult to find all the information and commit identity theft. Remote access even to the phone to the cache of mobile malware on more phones and Android phones released more useful than ever getting with IDF effects.

Smartphone, for the most part, standard security and user names and passwords, your personal data, and applications that require access to at least the application on the first setup a lot of information over. But most of those apps on the phone, this unnecessarily when they do not store information, and they are not encrypt all information to be n when they have don.

This year, they were all shocked that iPhones are stored in a file without encryption to the phone's internal memory. Location information, the small fish compared to save your password (in the minds of most people, you can use the password for multiple accounts is clear) or credit card numbers, or messages sent to your boss on the phone memory.

List of Apps you can verify that the viaForensics been tested here, as much information as possible, together with a summary of the clarity of each app. ViaForensics all app builders before publication of the results, shall be tested as many apps as the earlier versions was fixed security holes. But these are just a sampling of the hundreds of thousands of apps out there, to keep more information if it is absolutely necessary to your phone.

"Someone from a moderate technical skills, you can the Android SDK [software development kit], and if she got the phone can be read." [ .[Something] that requires money, "said Ted Eull ViaForensics, Vice President of technical services." and holes are purely impatiently app building, Eull said. Application without passwords or data SDK is needed, properly applied in an arbitrary open/t. "why storing confidential information, firstly without encryption?" When the crop is not Arvestatavatele the data, you won t go after him, "said Eull.

For some, this information may be harmless can access someone knows the user name and password secure ' t do much with this name and password, if by chance, which is the same as user name and password to the bank account or email address.