{"id":19764,"date":"2011-04-15T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-15T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T20:17:00","slug":"skype-on-android-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/19764-skype-on-android-users-beware.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype on Android users beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">The company released details Friday of a serious  security flaw that would allow rogue programs to record the names,  e-mail addresses, phone numbers, contacts, and chat logs of Skype users  on Google&#8217;s smartphone operating system Android, which is the world&#8217;s  most popular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">In a blog posting, Skype said the flaw allows other  programs on the phone to access the sensitive Skype data and that it was  working to patch the vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;To protect your personal information, we advise users  to take care in selecting which applications to download and install  onto their device,&#8221; the company advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Skype currently has over 600 million user accounts, though the number of active accounts is thought to be much lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/327324-Skype-on-Android-user-beware-serious-security-flaw\"><strong>Skype on Android<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people who use the Skype communications service on Android phones should beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}