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Mobile apps could be abused to make expensive phone calls
2014-08-22 13:28:22| InfoWorld: Top News
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.
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