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Mobile apps could be abused to make expensive phone calls |
August 22, 2014
A security precaution skipped in mobile applications such as Facebook’s Messenger could be abused to make an expensive phone call at a victim’s expense, a developer contends.Phone numbers often appear as links on a mobile device. That is possible by using a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme called ”tel” to trigger a call.URI schemes are a large family of descriptions that can tell a computer where to go for a certain resource, such as launching a mail application when an email address is clicked.Andrei Neculaesei, a full-stack developer with the wireless streaming company Airtame in Copenhagen, contends there’s a risk in how most native mobile applications handle phone numbers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2597860/mobile-apps-could-be-abused-to-make-expensive-phone-calls.html#tk.rss_all
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