As smartphones become more prolific, so too, does the security of the smartphone. These buggers, the itty bitty laptop known as a smartphone, are starting to replace the desktop and laptop computer, and evil-doers are catching on and starting to catch up! I love how the few make it miserable for the many.
I’m sure many of you are aware, but if you’re not, below are just a few instances of issues you might want to be aware of with your smartphones, like personal data being uploaded by some apps, scanning the wrong kind of QR code or apps like Google Wallet with tiny initial flaws in their processes.
(BTW: Always update your apps. Sure, most of the time it means more aggressive ad processes, but at times, it also means valid security patches for apps.)
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Personal Data Uploaded
I previously wrote about the Emergency Broadcast system test on smartphones and since I had this in my back pocket, I thought I’d pull it up and point out that, as the website ReadWriteWeb put it,
“your smartphone is either egregiously violating your privacy or just trying to improve your user experience in a not-so-transparent way. “
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Turns out that what RWW was reporting is that a Path (A social network) app was apparently uploading phone users entire collected address books from their smartphones, and that as this issue was looked at for further exploration of the issue, it seems they discovered that Twitter also uploads your address books.
And THAT, is the cost of a free app, or so the article goes.
The rest of the article on RWW talks phones using Jailbreak or something like that. But that’s outside my comfort zone or realm of experience. So rather than talk about it, I’d suggest hitting up the link at the end of the article if you’re interested in getting more information.
In the meantime, I just thought it was interesting that a user’s data is leaked as commonly as it appears to be leaked, per this article!
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