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Faux, Hacked Apps Continue to Litter Google Play Marketplace, Developer Alleges

Phony, potentially malicious apps are continuing to make their way into Google’s Play marketplace, triggering debate over whether applications are being properly vetted for adhering to the company’s marketplace policies.Developers at the Root Uninstaller Team have called out another app publisher, Team DROID, for copying their work after duplicate, “hacked” versions of Root Uninstaller’s apps have popped up in Google’s Play market over the past few weeks.

Chrome Clickjacking Vulnerability Could Expose User Information on Google, Amazon

An apparent clickjacking, or UI redress vulnerability, in Google’s Chrome web browser could make it possible for attackers to glean users’ e-mail addresses, their first and last names and other information according to recent work done by an Italian researcher.Luca De Fulgentis, who writes about security for Nibble Security’s blog, detailed the issue earlier this week, along with another separate data extraction method.

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