Vulnerability discovered in Twitter for Android, all should be well now
Twitter's posted a statement on its Privacy blog, notifying of the discovery of a security vulnerability in its Android app. It offered the possibility to allow a bad actor control over your profile (including sending tweets and DMs) and access to otherwise non-public information if they were to insert malicious code into restricted storage areas of the Twitter app.
Twitter says it has no evidence whether anyone's actually exploited the vulnerability but is taking the necessary measures. Based on the specific version of Android and the Twitter app, people who could have been exposed are being contacted with instructions on how to proceed via email or inside the app. Updating to the latest version of Twitter for Android is always a safe bet, as well.
Twitter for iOS, meanwhile, wasn't affected.
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- s-pen pusher
- 23 Dec 2019
- PMT
nowhere as serious as android? hmmm... remember fappening? was there a breach on android as serious as that?
- I'mPhone
- 22 Dec 2019
- 6ca
Fandroids who keep bashing Apple need to learn that Apple's software leads and is less inferior compared to Android. Apple may have experienced security breaches before in their OS or apps but nowhere as serious as Android.
- Anonymous
- 22 Dec 2019
- D02
Android give a lot of headaches when designi6 apps too complicated, I don't even know how developers create Android apps lol. All will change for the good with fuchsia os
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