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New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission
2019-07-17 11:03

Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions. The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse multiple ways around to collect location data, phone identifiers, and MAC addresses of their users by exploiting both covert and side


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Android 4 0 17 2 0 19