{"id":1475,"date":"2010-08-16T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T09:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T09:35:23","slug":"the-app-genome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"The App Genome Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Black Hat Security Conference,  Lookout unveiled the App Genome Project, which is the largest mobile  application dataset ever created. In an ongoing effort to map and study  mobile applications, the App Genome Project was created to identify  security threats in the wild and provide insight into how applications  are accessing personal data, as well as other phone resources. Lookout  founders John Hering and Kevin Mahaffey initiated the App Genome project  to understand what mobile applications are doing and use that  information to more quickly identify potential security threats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mylookout.com\/2010\/07\/introducing-the-app-genome-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1476\" title=\"Lookout_App_Genome_Project_Infographic_072610\" src=\"http:\/\/brendanmitchell.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/lookout_app_genome_project_infographic_072610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the prevalence of mobile devices, they have become inherent in our lives, the more we depend upon the information stored within them, the greater the risks posed when this information falls into the wrong hands. Is this something you should be concerned about? Your Identity Matters, but how much it matters is up to you.<\/p>\n<p>similar post <a title=\"Application Privacy\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100728\/ap_on_re_us\/us_tec_techbit_apps_privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Black Hat Security Conference, Lookout unveiled the App Genome Project, which is the largest mobile application dataset ever created. In an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications, the App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the wild and provide insight into how applications are accessing personal data, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[546,476,547,113,76,101],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","category-visualisation-infographics","tag-app-genome-project","tag-infographic","tag-lookout","tag-personal-identity","tag-security","tag-your-id-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}