Study: Most mobile applications offering user data at risk

A study conducted by the Company ( HP . PE) Electronics that the average user of the smartphone downloads a number of electronic applications using his numbering an average of 26 applications , and that most of these applications involve security concerns one way or another .
Although the study focused company HP primarily on applications for companies and businesses , but that there is nothing that prevents these findings also apply to regular commercial applications available on my Apple App Store and Google Play .
The study reported in the journal "me. CNN World," American Committee on news of the computer on its website that 97 percent of the applications that have been tested have contained the problem of user privacy and that 86 percent of these applications are lacking the means to protect essential security and that 75 percent of them are not fitted with appropriate means for data encryption.
The study concluded that each user has probably a number of security holes on his smartphone or tablet computer its own because of these applications.