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Recently, a report has emerged on the fact that certain applications available on Android are vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug, and it seems that more...

Moreover, the team claims that the issue is present even on handsets and tablets that do not run under the affected platform iteration itself. 

They note that 273 applications in Google Play were found to be bundled with the standalone affected OpenSSL library, thus being vulnerable on any device on which they are installed.

“In this list, we see last year’s most popular games, some VPN clients, a security app, a popular video player, an instant message app, a VOIP phone app and many others,” the TrendLabs notes in the aforementioned blog post. 

Learn more:

• http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Heartbleed

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