The cross-platform nature of PhoneGap development can make the platform very tempting, especially for developers with existing web skills.

This is the second article in our OWASP Mobile Top 10 series, which aims to flesh-out the OWASP recommendations with some concrete examples that you can apply to your iOS and Android applications today.

Writing secure mobile application code is difficult. The competing expectations of innovative user interfaces, new operating system features and API changes often leave security at the back of the list.

Just 25% of companies are meeting their own expectations for secure code, for the other 75% their aspirations for automated security testing, code reviews, and external code reviews fail to match up to reality.

Writing secure mobile application code is difficult. The competing expectations of innovative user interfaces, new operating system features and API changes often leave security at the back of the list.

Gartner’s research into the role of mobile app security testing looks at how mobile security testing is going to develop alongside traditional.

Mobile app security testing research from Google has shown that a range of Android & iOS devices are open to attack over WiFi leading to device takeover.

Demonetisation in India has gained a significant amount of traction while also showing the security risks of digital payments and the need for mobile app security testing.

New research shows that as the adoption of mobile payment continues trust, and security, are key to the next stage of adoption, showing the need for mobile app security testing as a key part of mobile growth strategies.

Research on seven Indian banks has shown that their mobile apps may be open to attack from malware and a failure to do regular mobile app security testing.

In a recent report on Mobile Threat Intelligence research from Skycure revealed that 71% of Android users on five major US carriers are 2 months behind on their security patches …

Mobile app security testing of the McDelivery app, a home delivery app for McDonald’s India, shows that the app leaked the data of 2.2 million of its users.

Modern connected mobile applications are coming under increased pressure from hackers and malware, on both iOS and Android.

The new report from Google on the state of Android Security shows how the company is committed to fighting malware and fragmentation across devices and operating systems …