News, via Ars Technica's inimitable Dan Goodin, detailing the FireEye discovery of remnant iOS application FREAK HTTPS vulnerabilities, regardless of host device patching.

'Security researchers from FireEye recently examined the most popular apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store and found 1,999 titles that left users wide open to the encryption downgrade attack. Specifically, 1,228 Android apps with one million or more downloads were vulnerable, while 771 out of the top 14,079 iOS apps were susceptible. Vulnerable apps were those that used—or in the case of iOS, could use—an affected crypto library and connected to servers that offered weak, 512-bit encryption keys. The number of vulnerable apps would no doubt mushroom when analyzing slightly less popular titles.' - via Ars Technica's Dan Goodin