Popular Android apps meant for keeping an eye on kids also keep tabs on parents.
apps for tracking kids and family members which have been downloaded over 85 million times on the Google Play store could be exposing your and your children's information to bad actors. Each of them was downloaded more than a million times, and the most popular one has been installed 50 million times.
Cybersecurity company Casaba Security's co-founder Jason Glassberg says that tracking apps are"essentially a backdoor into your child's phone, which at a minimum will be collecting reams of data on them." These apps have not properly implemented the Secure Sockets Layer certificate, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks., which could allow an attacker to eavesdrop on the traffic flowing through them.
All the apps that were reviewed contained third-party trackers, which means they collect data on both the parents and children. That means any data shared with the apps, including accounts, passwords, and personal information can be stolen. These and other similar apps with trackers stored hard-coded application programming interface keys, which are generally used for authentication purposes. Find my Phone. Family GPS Locator had the most API keys, four to be exact. If threat actors find these tokens, they can get their hands on sensitive data.
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