Roskachestvo conducted a study of the applications “My guests” in the social network “VKontakte”. The main dangers of using such programs are the lack of confidentiality guarantees and the likelihood of money being debited from the account, the organization warned.
The experts studied 56 applications of this type (40 on the Android platform and 16 on iOS), and none of them passed the test successfully.
The main thing to be afraid of when installing such applications is the lack of privacy guarantees and the likelihood of money being debited from your account, Roskachestvo warned. According to experts, after receiving the client’s data or taking his money, such a program can simply disappear. This is exactly what happened with ten of the 56 apps examined-they were removed from the stores.
The specialists also analyzed the traffic direction of the installed programs. It turns out that 60 percent of applications during authorization sent requests to other countries, and the majority went to Turkish servers. The process in which the IP address leads to a third-party server, the staff of the Center for Digital Expertise of Roskachestvo compared to the fact that a person gives the keys to his apartment to a stranger and asks to open the door.
The administration of VKontakte has been warning for several years that applications that can be used to find out data about guests who visited the user’s page simply do not exist in nature, ” Roskachestvo recalled. The organization’s specialists recommended using only official mobile clients.
Earlier, experts told how to protect yourself from spam calls. The first thing you can do is block the numbers from which spammers or scammers called.