Popular Android apps are shipping with outdated bug-ridden software

The Next Web
By Ravie LakshmananNov 21, 2019, 8:28 am158 pts
Researchers have found that several popular Android apps, including Facebook, AliExpress, and WeChat, come with outdated software components that contain unpatched security flaws. Native vulnerabilities in third-party mobile apps are one kind. Those at the operating system level are another. Both necessitate…

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