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Apple and Google app stores get thumbs down from White House
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Apple and Google app stores get thumbs down from White House

[ad_1] The Biden administration is taking aim at Apple and Google for operating mobile app stores that it says stifle competition. The finding is contained in a Commerce Department report released by the administration on Wednesday as President Joe Biden convened his competition council for an update on efforts to promote competition and lower prices. “You've heard me say capitalism without competition isn't capitalism,” Biden said Wednesday before convening the meeting, “it is just simply exploitation," he said. And on another competition front, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was pushing forward with efforts to limit credit card late fees. The report from the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration says the current app store mo...
Alert! Million Facebook users exposed to over 400 malicious apps on Google Play, App Store
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Alert! Million Facebook users exposed to over 400 malicious apps on Google Play, App Store

[ad_1] Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been "exposed" to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network. So far this year, Meta has identified more than 400 "malicious" apps tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Android software and available at the Apple App Store and Google Pay Store, director of threat disruption David Agranovich said during a briefing. "These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and disguised as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps and other utilities to trick people into downloading them," Meta said in a blog post. The apps often ask people to login with their Facebook account information to use promised features, stealing usernames and p...