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Privacy TIp #86 – Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps

By Linn Foster Freedman on May 4, 2017
Posted in Privacy Tips

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play turn Android phones into a server that allow the user to connect the phone directly to a PC and leave open insecure ports available on the smartphone.

What does this mean? It means attackers can use the open insecure port to get…

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