The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Computers => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on August 06, 2020, 08:02:13 pm
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Twitter says security flaw may have exposed Android users’ direct messages
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/twitter-android-users-direct-messages-may-have-been-exposed.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/twitter-android-users-direct-messages-may-have-been-exposed.html)
Twitter on Wednesday disclosed a new security vulnerability that may have exposed the direct messages of users who access the service using Android devices.
Specifically, the vulnerability could have exposed the private data of Twitter users running devices with Android OS versions 8 and 9, the company said.
“This vulnerability could allow an attacker, through a malicious app installed on your device, to access private Twitter data on your device (like Direct Messages) by working around Android system permissions that protect against this,†the company said in a blog post.
The new vulnerability comes just weeks after 130 of Twitter’s most notable users, including Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Bill Gates, had their accounts taken over by hackers as part of a bitcoin scam. ...
This sounds like a security flaw in Twitter plus either a security flaw in Android or device user carelessness (the latter seems a bit more likely, IMO).
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One more reason to only tie into social media with a PC, and not a phone.
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Android is also used on tablets. I think the phone-tablet-desktop boundaries are going to get blurry in the next couple of years.
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Android is also used on tablets. I think the phone-tablet-desktop boundaries are going to get blurry in the next couple of years.
They want all that synched and interlinked now. **nononono*
Call me a luddite, I don't care. I don't want the platforms interlaced.