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Approov Sponsors New Research Following the widely-reported Knight Ink Research Report that revealed how API-Focused Attacks Exploit Vulnerabilities in mHealth Apps, Exposing Data of Millions of Patients; Schedules Webinar for March 4 Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection for mobile applications, today announced a March 4 Webinar that presents new data from research into API-focused Mobile Attacks and sponsorship of the next phase of research into this topic with a call for developers to participate.
The first report, which can be downloaded at https://approov.io/mhealth/hacking/, revealed that fully 100 percent of the 30 popular mHealth apps analyzed by Alissa Knight, partner at Knight Ink, are vulnerable to API attacks that can allow unauthorized access to full patient records including protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). The study underscores the API shielding actions now urgently required to protect mHealth a