Security Researchers Catalog Mobile Vulnerabilities

A group of researchers and security experts from the mobile security company Lookout announced that they were creating a catalog of applications for mobile phones, calling their effort the App Genome Project.

Their goal, they said, is to identify security threats on mobile devices, especially situations in which applications surreptitiously collect personal information or threaten a phone owner's privacy. Lookout's researchers said they had already scanned nearly 300,000 mobile applications and have mapped nearly a third, which were specifically designed for the Apple iPhone and Google's Android platform.