2015-07-10
Security loopholes in Android OS, social media putting 550m users' data at risk, Hong Kong researchers say
Media: South China Morning Post
Over 550 million people worldwide are at risk of having their data hacked due
to security loopholes in the Android phone or social media platforms they
use, researchers in Hong Kong claim. Hackers can use malware to tap into
Google Voice Search, the voice assistant module that is pre-installed on some
Android devices, without the owner needing to ever activate the software,
according to Professor Zhang Kehuan at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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