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Eavesdropping Smartphones

What are Eavesdropping Smartphones? MediaTek is a Taiwanese company that manufactures chips for smartphones and other smart devices that are used by roughly one third of the world’s smartphones, and 43% of all Android devices. Security updates recently addressed serious vulnerabilities that could allow malicious Android apps to record audio and spy on users. Prior […]

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Spyware

What is Spyware? Spyware is software that enables a user to obtain covert information about someone’s computer activities by secretly transmitting data from their device. There are many types of spyware focused on monitoring different types of information, ranging from relatively innocent web browsing trackers used by advertisers to cyberattacker enterprises seeking credentials and passwords […]