Android Stagefright, Carphone Warehouse hack and an Oracle rant: The week in security

Jason Murdock
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The top security news of last week from the V3 newsdesk

Last week was dominated by news of data breaches and bug fixes. Stagefright is still a threat to Android devices, Lenovo has been installing bloatware in its systems, and research indicated that UK...

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