Security News > 2017 > April > Insecure Apps that Open Ports Leave Millions of Smartphones at Risk of Hacking (The Hackers News)

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play Store have a security hole that could potentially allow hackers to steal data from and even implant malware on millions of Android smartphones. The University of Michigan team says that the actual issue lies within apps that create open ports — a known problem with computers — on

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