After combatting many years of desktop spyware, users must be more cognizant now of the apps, webpages, and content they put on their mobile devices as smartphones are gaining more potential. At the Black Hat security conference, Lookout, which does analysis of web applications and the access that is given to apps on phones, have identified a number of vulnerabilities on the iOS iPhone platform as well as Google Android. The project is called the App Genome Project, which found that 14% of free iPhone apps and 8% of freeware apps on Android have the ability to collect contact data on a phone--all without the user's knowledge.
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