Experts said in the information security company "FireEye" and that despite all the security updates launched by Apple and Google and against serious gap FREAK that the latter continues to threaten more than 1228 application on Android in addition to 771 application on iOS system.
And was a loophole "Freak" or "Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys" targeting more than one-third of existing sites on the Internet, even those that use Transport Layer Security and SSL, which ensures a high level of security protocols in the hierarchy system, which enables hackers presence of the user in the first end of the connection between the target and the location in the second party and thus launch an attack from the type of "attack man-in-the middle" or "Man-in-servers the-middle attack".
Security firm FireEye noted in its report that, and despite the fact that many of the security updates that came in this regard, but the gap is still Freak significantly threaten a significant number of the most famous and downloaded applications on the Android and iOS, where he pointed out that out of 10985 on application Google Play has been anointed by the company's experts, the 1228 exhibition of this application any gap by 11.8 percent.
On iOS it and out of 14079 application has been studied, the number of endangered loophole Freak is 771 applications in application or by 5.5 percent, where FireEye experts indicates that without breaking the encryption necessarily real-time, the hacker could have recorded the movement of encrypted network traffic on poorly, then decode decode them and get the user's data.
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