But despite assurance from Trend Micro and Apple, many security experts said they were not too sure anymore about the safety of apps at the Mac Store. In a bid to maintain trust among its users, Apple decided to remove all the affected apps of Trend Micro from the Mac App Store.
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This has been corrected,” PC Mag quotes a statement by Trend Micro. “We have learned that browser collection functionality was designed in common across a few of our applications and then deployed the same way for both security-oriented as well as the non-security oriented apps such as the ones in discussion. When news broke out about the data theft, Trend Micro went into a damage control mode and removed the browser history collection feature from the apps. By recording user browser history, Trend Micro could potentially share it with other third parties. This was done to check whether the computer had come across any adware or other security threats. The harvesting was done 24 hours after the app was installed by the user. Though the company claims that the activity was declared in the disclosures accepted by the users during the install, many people were unaware of it since very few actually read the fine print of an app installation.
These apps were reportedly harvesting user’s browser histories and sending them to an Amazon server based in the U.S. These include an antivirus product called Dr. Trend Micro has four apps at the Mac Store. However, two cases of data theft have brought to light the vulnerability of Apple’s Mac Store. Apple users tend to blindly trust the company’s app s tore out of a belief that the applications must be secure since they are vetted by the company.
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