Showing posts with label vulnerability. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Skype: responds to report of security hole


Skype Profile info left vulnerable to malicious applications


Skype on Friday issued a public response to a security issue uncovered recently that leaves some profile and message information open and vulnerable to malicious applications. Uncovered by Android Police, the vulnerability deals with the way the Skype Android application stores some personal information, making your profile information -- and your Skype contacts' profile information (among other bits of Skype data) -- easily found and scraped by any application that wants to. Skype, on its blog, has said: