“Microsoft needs to start beefing up the security of its Windows Phone 7 App Marketplace. An ethical hacker provided WPCentral, a Windows Phone centric site, with a video showing proof-of-concept program that could grab any App from Marketplace and be installed for free sans any DRM security,” Samir Makwana reports for UTV.
MacDailyNews Take: This ought to give a second thought to any developers who are hell bent on wasting their time.
Makwana reports, “This proof-of-concept program, dubbed FreeMarketplace, raises an alarm against a severe security issue with the Windows Marketplace that might lead to App Piracy.. Tobias is said to be the developer of the proof-of-concept FreeMarketplace program. In the video, the proof-of-concept FreeMarketplace program pulls [an] app from the Windows Marketplace, removes the XAP Security Layer and deploys it on a WP7 device with a single button press.”
Makwana reports, “This means that Microsoft’s XAP Security DRM is the same for every app and hence an automated DRM removal fix could be enabled to crack Windows Marketplace easy process.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Security via Obscurity. Oops.
Microsoft. Ineptitude is in our DNA.™
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "The_Wzrd" for the heads up.]
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