Popular Sonic the HedgeHog Apps at Risk of Leaking User Data to Unverified Servers
Researchers have found three Sega game apps that connect to insecure servers and risk leaking user data.
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Tom Spring is Editor-in-Chief of Threatpost. For the past two decades he has worked at a number of national publications in the roles of executive editor, technical editor and investigative reporter.
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