Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, November 20th, 2019.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Hackers could take over your Android cameras. The police can do whatever they want with your

ring videos, if your Disney Plus account is hacked, is it probably your fault? An

amazing breakthrough in solar technology and why fishing by drone has become

a thing. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Researchers have found bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that

could record video, take pictures and extract GPS data without permission, and even when the

camera or the phone itself was off and locked. Bottom line, if these camera apps were not

updated since before July 2019, they would still be at risk. This would affect

perhaps hundreds of millions of Android devices.

Here are the nitty gritty details from bleeping computer.

Normally an app needs to have the Android.

permission dot camera

Android dot permission record underscore audio

Android dot permission dot access fine location and

Android dot permission dot access course location

permissions in order to record video take pictures or access a

device's location. Checkmarks discovered that apps that have the storage permission, which gives the app access to the device's entire SD card and the media stored on it,

also gives an app the ability to use the camera apps exposed intense without the permissions listed above.

A malicious app running on an Android smartphone that can read the SD card not only has access to past photos and

videos, but with this new attack methodology can be directed to initiate, i.e. take, new photos and

videos at will. And it doesn't stop there since GPS

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