Alert! Alert! If you use Instagram's Android app, complete strangers could be looking at your photos of appetizers and makeup techniques right now! ...which is kind of the point of Instagram, I suppose. But security researcher Mazin Ahmed discovered that the app uses standard HTTP to transmit photos, cookies, and authentication (including usernames and unique IDs), instead of the encrypted HTTPS protocol. As Mr. Mackie is so fond of saying, that's bad.
Instagram Android App Susceptible To Session Hijacking Due To Unencrypted HTTP Transfers was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
from Android Police - Android News, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets http://ift.tt/1nYLoxj
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