{"id":295238,"date":"2019-02-08T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=295238"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:31:12","slug":"apple-cracks-down-on-iphone-apps-that-secretly-record-your-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/295238-apple-cracks-down-on-iphone-apps-that-secretly-record-your-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple cracks down on iPhone apps that secretly record your screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has told developers to request consent from users to record their screen data or remove the offending code from their applications, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/02\/07\/apple-glassbox-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by TechCrunch revealed that many major iOS applications including Expedia, Singapore Airlines, and Hotels.com secretly recorded users&#8217; screen activity without asking permission.<\/p>\n<p>This was accomplished using session replay technology from Glassbox, which recorded a user&#8217;s screen whenever they input information.<\/p>\n<p>While these recorded screenshots supposedly black out sensitive information such as credit card numbers or addresses, <a href=\"http:\/\/theappanalyst.com\/aircanada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>App Analyst<\/strong><\/a> found that some applications did not properly mask personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone apps can contain a variety of malicious code which can collect personal information or unknowingly subscribe users to premium content services.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile technology company Upstream <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/292292-south-africans-airtime-and-data-stolen-through-malicious-smartphone-app.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recently found<\/strong><\/a> that a popular weather forecast application on Alcatel devices was subscribing users to WASPs in the background.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/295236-apple-releases-software-fix-for-facetime-eavesdropping-bug.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple releases software fix for FaceTime eavesdropping bug<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has told developers to request consent from users to record their screen data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":255275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,57306,691,1125,57304],"class_list":["post-295238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-glassbox","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-screen-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295286,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295238\/revisions\/295286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}