Google recently issued its June Android Security Bulletin that is designed to patch 34 vulnerabilities, all of which Google designates as high-severity defects. The most serious flaw the patch is designed to fix in the Android system would allow threat actors “to achieve local escalation of privilege with no additional privileges required.” The bulletin contains
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Privacy Tip #211 – WhatsApp Users: Update Your App to Patch Vulnerability
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
WhatsApp has announced that it has patched a vulnerability that would have allowed hackers to access with malware the chat history of users. Android 8.1 and 9 could have been susceptible to the attack. However, WhatsApp is urging all users to update their app.
Although WhatsApp says it has patched the vulnerability and does not…
Privacy Tip #189 – Online Dating
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Children's Privacy, Privacy Tips
As someone who has been married a long time (longer than the Internet has existed), I never experienced the online dating scene. Everyone has their own opinion on the topic, and without getting into the merits of online dating, there is risk for children, which is the subject of this privacy tip.
The Federal Trade…
Privacy TIp #86 – Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps
By Linn Foster Freedman on
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…