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Two-thirds of iOS apps disable ATS, an iOS security feature

June 5, 2019

Via: ZDnet

Two-thirds of iOS apps do not use an Apple technology that can help them support and enforce encrypted communications, according to a report published today by cyber-security firm Wandera.

The company said it scanned over 30,000 iOS applications and found that 67.7% of the apps were disabling a default iOS security feature called ATS (App Transport Security) on purpose.

ATS was introduced with the release of iOS 9, released in September 2015, and works by blocking all HTTP connections between an app and its remote server.

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