Texas A&M professor researching mobile applications security
(World News Science)

July 12, 2018 | By: Deana Totzke Smartphones, tablets, iPads - mobile devices have become invaluable to the everyday consumer. But few consider the security issues that occur when using these devices. Modern mobile applications or `apps` use cloud-hosted HTTP-based application programming interface (API) services and heavily rely on the internet infrastructure for data communication and storage. To improve performance and leverage the power of the mobile device, input validation and other business logic required for interfacing with web API services are typically implemented on the mobile client....