Five percent of the databases are vulnerable to threat actors: It’s a gold mine of exploit opportunity in thousands of mobile apps, researchers say. Thousands of mobile apps – some of which have been ...

Three security engineers, Logykk, mrbruh, and xyzeva, wrote in a blog post that misconfigured Firebase security rules have left hundreds of sites exposing a total of 125 million records containing ...

The security research team at Comparitech has conducted an audit of hundreds of thousands of apps on the Google Play store. The research team found common misconfigurations on Google Firebase ...

Google Play Store is considered the safest source for downloading apps on Android devices, but there are apps listed on the store that can put your device's security at risk. While Google vets its app ...

An easy search of VirusTotal for open Firebase databases found more than 2,100 datastores used by mobile applications were left accessible by developers, exposing company bank balances, family photos, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Acquired by Google in 2014, Firebase is a mobile platform that ...