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APPLE SAYS SIDE-LOADING APPS COULD LEAD TO IPHONE SECURITY DISASTER

By Mayank Sharma about 24 hours ago

Nothing more than a distraction, claims lawyer for group that helped initiate
EU’s anti-competitive investigation

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Apple has shot back at EU draft rules that would force the company to allow its
users to sideload iOS apps on their devices.



The iPhone maker has voiced strong disagreement with the proposal citing the
prevalence of malware in the Android ecosystem, which it argues is a direct
result of enabling side-loading of apps.



“If Apple were forced to support sideloading, more harmful apps would reach
users because it would be easier for cybercriminals to target them – even if
sideloading were limited to third-party app stores only," claims Apple’s new
report that presents a threat analysis of sideloading.

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The report comes in the backdrop of the EU’s antitrust investigation against
Apple initiated at the behest of Spotify, for its apparent anti-competitive
practice of forcing app developers to use its proprietary App Store for app
installations and payments.




CAN OF WORMS

Speaking to TechRadar Pro, Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb, and a member
of Europol Data Protection Experts Network explains that “security by obscurity”
is one of the main pillars of Apple’s mobile security model that actually works
pretty well compared to Android. 



Kolochenko argues that by closing its mobile ecosystem to any third parties,
Apple does indeed prevent countless mobile attacks. That said, he agrees that
critical vulnerabilities in iOS that allow remote code execution expose the
platform to abuse, and there have been reports of malicious iOS apps also
managing to bypass Apple Store’s multilayered controls and get installed by
unwitting users. 

"That being said, even if security by obscuring is clearly not a panacea,
opening Apple’s ecosystem to third parties will, undoubtedly, bring a tenfold
increase in malware targeting iOS devices and undermine Apple’s security model,”
believes Kolochenko.


JUST A DISTRACTION

The report cited figures from cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which showed that
Android devices are affected by nearly six million attacks per month.



However, speaking to Reuters, Damien Geradin, lawyer for the Coalition for App
Fairness, dismissed Apple's arguments, saying that built-in security measures
such as encrypted data and antivirus apps are responsible for securing the
devices, and not Apple’s App Store.

He asserts that Apple is focusing on sideloading to step away from the real
issue.

"What matters to us is the obligation imposed on developers whose apps sell
digital goods and services to use Apple In-App payment system," he told Reuters.

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