Some mobile phone apps may contain hidden behaviors that users never see
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By:BGS, Wednesday, April 01st, 2020

Study indicates a large number of apps may be vulnerable to hacking
A team of cybersecurity researchers has discovered that a large number of cell phone applications contain hardcoded secrets allowing others to access private data or block content provided by users.
The study’s findings: that the apps on mobile phones might have hidden or harmful behaviors about which end users know little to nothing, said Zhiqiang Lin, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at The Ohio State University and senior author of the study.
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