Zach Lanier and Mike Zusman discussed a variety of weaknesses in several mobile platforms. They showed off enough clever attacks in their talk at SecTor in Toronto last week to make the listener want to pull the SIM card from his phone, set it down and back quietly away. The problems and attacks are not of the super-sexy variety that inspire scary headlines, but they are serious issues that serve to show that the overall security picture on mobile platforms is a rather ugly one. The mobile industry is in many cases simply repeating mistakes made by Web app developers 15 years ago.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mobile-security-woes-go-beyond-malicious-apps-110110/74626/