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Barcode-Scanning App for Android Pushed Malware Onto Millions of Phones

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A popular app has been removed from Google Play after it was discovered to have delivered trojanized malware onto millions of users’ phones via an update. Read more.

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Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

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Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia… Read more.

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How to Find iOS 14's Hidden Code Scanner App

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The iOS app screen shows all the apps installed on your iPhone—or does it? There’s actually a hidden QR scanner app on all iPhones running iOS 14 that you can’t normally find in the app launcher. The “Code Scanner” app is already integrated into the iOS Camera app—it’s how your phone can recognize QR codes—but can… Read more.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

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And the Xbox One seemed like a higher level software type hacking and I wasn't quite comfortable with that level of software. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it. I'll do that probably before I'll even look at the software route. I wanted to get better at software defined radio.