"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, ...

Cloud developers still aren't securing their databases, a new report claims, resulting in the exposure of private enterprise information stored in Firebase, Google's mobile back-end platform. Again, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

It's been reported that nearly 24,000 applications on the Google Play Store have suffered data leaks and these applications are being compromised by accident due to Google Firebase being badly ...

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 ...

Today, Google hosted its annual Firebase Summit event, where the company announced new tools to make things like data analysis and performance monitoring easier for app developers. If you’re not ...