ዛሬ በደረሰን ዜና ቻይና ከስልካችን ላይ በየ3 ቀኑ መረጃወችን ትሰርቃለች ። ይህንን መረጃ የሰጠን የኛ የስልክና የስልክ ደቂቃ መሙላት የሚሰጠን ኩባንያ ነው ።
'Secret backdoor' in some Android phones sent user data to China: Report
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contractors said they’ve discovered pre-installed software on some
Android phones in the U.S. that sends a variety of users’ data to China
through a secret backdoor.
The
software tracks users’ whereabouts, whom they talk to and the content
of their text messages, sending the information to a server in China
every three days, The New York Times reported.
It isn’t clear whether the secret backdoor is being exploited for
advertising purposes or by the Chinese government for surveillance.
It’s
also unclear how widespread the vulnerability is, although the software
was more commonly found on prepaid phones. Shangai Adups Technology
Company, which developed the software, said its code runs on more than
700 million devices including smartphones, the Times said.
Blu
Products, a Florida-based handset vendor, said 120,000 of its phones
had been affected. The company said software on its phones had been
updated to address the backdoor.
Blu
is a relatively minor player in the North American smartphone market,
but it has attracted significant attention in recent months. Its R1 HD
phone became Amazon’s top-selling smartphonefor
a time in August after the online retailer began offering the phone for
$50 to subscribers of its Prime service willing to accept ads and
pre-installed Amazon apps.
More recently, BlackBerry filed two separate patent lawsuits against Blu, claiming the manufacturer infringed on 15 of its claims related to 2G, 3G and LTE technologies.
Adups
said it intentionally created the backdoor to enable a Chinese phone
vendor to track user behavior, the Times reported, and that version of
the software wasn’t meant for the U.S. market.
Regardless,
the news underscores the difficulties some Chinese smartphone
manufacturers continue to face in cracking the U.S. market due to
security concerns. Huawei has emerged as a major player in the worldwide
smartphone market, for instance, but its high-profile Huawei 8 has
been all but ignored by
operators such as Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Similarly,
Xiaomi has yet to try to elbow its way into the U.S., although the
company reportedly has developed versions of at least two of its phones
for testing on U.S. mobile networks.
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