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Guidemaster: Smartwatches worthy of replacing your favorite timepiece

August 08, 2019

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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

Denver based startup Visible offers unlimited 5 mbps data and voice plans at $40/mo on Verizon's network via an invite-only app; says it is funded by Verizon (Tamara Chuang/Denver Post)

https://ift.tt/2IcNJHp Tamara Chuang / Denver Post : Denver based startup Visible offers unlimited 5 mbps data and voice plans at $40/mo on Verizon's network via an invite-only app; says it is funded by Verizon — Funded by Verizon, the startup is nearly half the cost of Verizon's similar plan — There's a new mobile service in town for Denverites.

All Raise female VCs team up with ~120 successful female entrepreneurs across the country to mentor next generation of female founders (Biz Carson/Forbes)

https://ift.tt/2IOqjnE Biz Carson / Forbes : All Raise female VCs team up with ~120 successful female entrepreneurs across the country to mentor next generation of female founders — When Julia Hartz cofounded ticketing giant Eventbrite, she wasn't prepared for how lonely or stressful it could be along the way.

Guidemaster: Smartwatches worthy of replacing your favorite timepiece

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