{"id":99019,"date":"2019-11-25T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/team-saw-how-an-attacker-could-hijack-android-camera-for-spyfest"},"modified":"2019-11-25T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:43:27","slug":"team-saw-how-an-attacker-could-hijack-android-camera-for-spyfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/team-saw-how-an-attacker-could-hijack-android-camera-for-spyfest","title":{"rendered":"Team saw how an attacker could hijack Android camera for spyfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-saw-how-an-attacker-could-hijack-android-camera-for-spyfest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android camera security threat, disclosed and since addressed, had spy vulnerabilities. These were fixed by Google and Samsung with a patch rolled out for Pixel and Samsung devices The recent headlines surrounding the flaw on Android devices teased a discomforting thought in the latest of numerous discomforting thoughts about security risks in the Android ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine your app is recording video and taking photos without your permission.<\/p>\n<p>In short, attackers could hijack your phone camera. Dan Goodin in <i>Ars Technica<\/i>: This was all about \u201can app needed no permissions at all to cause the camera to shoot pictures and record video and audio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android camera security threat, disclosed and since addressed, had spy vulnerabilities. These were fixed by Google and Samsung with a patch rolled out for Pixel and Samsung devices The recent headlines surrounding the flaw on Android devices teased a discomforting thought in the latest of numerous discomforting thoughts about security risks in the Android ecosystem. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}