Surprise: It turns out there’s a potentially huge security flaw in Android’s app stor

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_3xp9wxyC.wnG2eUnpv8Eg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/hackers-hacking-hacks.jpeg (http://news.yahoo.com/surprise-turns-potentially-huge-security-flaw-android-app-133414651.html)While many argue that Google’s Android malware isn’t a real problem, the fact still remains that apps with malicious capabilities are constantly being discovered. This problem is especially serious in third-party app stores,-but it also exists in Google Play, where issues-such as the recent app permission change-might let developers silently add malicious features to their apps-without the user knowing. On top of that, a new research paper details an even more serious security flaw in Google Play that can be used to expose personal details of users, even if they aren’t using an app. Phys.org reports that two researchers — professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering Jason Nieh and PhD candidate Nicolas Viennot-— have inspected Google Play security by



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