Android flaw lets apps secretly control your camera, and only Samsung and Google have patched it

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Apparently there’s a pretty major security vulnerability in Android’s code that would allow a rogue app to hijack the camera and microphone of a device and record in the background. Despite Android’s robust permission system, this flaw works around those permissions, and it affects way more devices than you’d think. So even if you haven’t […]

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