Mobile Security: Do iPhone Apps Pilfer Your Contacts? - Small Business Computing

Mobile Security: Do iPhone Apps Pilfer Your Contacts?

Feb 17, 2012
1 minute read

According to the blog VentureBeat, certain iPad and iPhone apps steal your address information and store it on their servers. And it’s not just iOs apps, either. Lots of sites upload your contacts without so much as a how-do-you-do. Our colleagues at Enterprise Mobile Today have the details on this mobile security issue.

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