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August 13, 2018

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“ShareIt” Android app with over a billion downloads is a security nightmare

Enlarge / You can't argue with that green "safe" shield. (credit: ShareIt ) Trend Micro says it has found "several" security flaws in the popular Android app ShareIt . ShareIt has been downloaded over a billion times from the Play Store, and, according to App Annie, was one of the 10 most globally downloaded apps in 2019. The app was originally developed by Lenovo (it has since spun off into its own company) and for a time was pre-installed on Lenovo phones. The report says ShareIt's vulnerabilities can "be abused to leak a user's sensitive data and execute arbitrary code with ShareIt permissions." ShareIt's permissions, as a local file-sharing app, are pretty extensive. According to the Play Store permissions readout, ShareIt requests access to the entire user storage and all media, the camera and microphone, and location. It can delete apps, run at startup, create accounts and set passwords, and do a whole lot more. It also has

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The link rot spreads: GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1

Enlarge / A myriad of ways one might react to Gfycat's closure, trending on Gfycat itself at the moment. (credit: Gfycat) The internet continues to get a bit more fragmented and less accessible every week. Within the past seven days, Reddit finished its purge of third-party clients , Twitter required accounts to view tweets (temporarily or not), and Google News started pulling news articles from its Canadian results. Now there's one more to add: Gfycat , a place where users uploaded, created, and distributed GIFs of all sorts, is shutting down as of Sept. 1, according to a message on its homepage. Users of the Snap-owned service are asked to "Please save or delete your Gfycat content." "After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com." Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments https://ift.tt/yET1I4W

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