Love is in the air — literally as well as figuratively.

With Valentine’s Day a few days away, dating apps are on the minds of more than a few employees. So now’s the time to remind them about safe mobile app practices. That includes having technology that ensures staff have separate personal and corporate containers for mobile apps, and allowing them to only download corporate apps from a company-run app store, or one approved by the enterprise.

In a survey last fall IBM found over 60 percent of leading Android dating mobile apps studied were potentially vulnerable to a variety of cyber-attacks that put personal user information and corporate data at risk.

Twenty-six of the 41 dating apps analyzed in the Google Play app store had either medium or high severity vulnerabilities, IBM said in a news release this week.

Some of the vulnerable apps could be reprogrammed by hackers to send an alert that asks users to click for an update or to retrieve a message that, in reality, is just a ploy to download malware onto their device.

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