Apple vulnerability does not affect Alibaba APP

SourceDNA, an American application analysis service company, released a report on Monday saying that 1,500 iOS applications have "HTTPS-crippling" vulnerabilities and mentioned the "Alibaba.com" mobile application (Alibaba's overseas B2B business). Alibaba's mobile security team immediately confirmed the risk. The "Alibaba.com" mobile application has long used its own certificate strong verification measures, so it will not be affected by the SDK that broke out this time and other third-party SDKs, and there is no risk of user information leakage.

In addition, according to the implementation principle of this vulnerability, if a hacker wants to use the HTTPS-crippling vulnerability that has been exposed this time to attack applications with strong certificate verification, he must manually install the certificate on each mobile phone before launching an attack. This is almost impossible to achieve in actual scenarios. It is a low-risk vulnerability and users do not need to worry too much.

Alibaba attaches great importance to the protection of user information. For highly sensitive business data such as user information, transaction data, and order information, we use the industry's best security practices, continuously upgrade encryption algorithms, and use advanced signature encryption measures during data transmission to ensure the security of user information.

With the continuous development of mobile Internet, Alibaba has established a special mobile security department with many top security experts, and independently developed the "Ju Anquan" platform to escort Alibaba's mobile business throughout the process, providing real-time detection and comprehensive monitoring for all Alibaba mobile applications, and being able to discover risk vulnerabilities and malicious code in the first place and repair them in full. In addition, it uses self-developed security reinforcement and security component SDK functions to improve the security of Alibaba's APP code to prevent it from being attacked by hackers. The core information transmitted by the APP is also encrypted at multiple levels and cannot be decrypted through channels other than Alibaba.

Mobile Internet security requires the joint efforts of the whole society, so Alibaba has also opened its self-developed "Ju Anquan" platform to the industry and developers for free, providing full-link security services for more mobile apps. http://jaq.alibaba.com/