A new vulnerability. Android allows you to work the camera without the user’s knowledge – Reedus

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Smartphone Android operating system can be a real pocket spy, sending videos and pictures with your device’s camera to the server hackers.

 Critical “bug” in the Android operating system found an expert in information security Shimon Sidor. According to the rules of Google, if the application is installed on the device is a video or photograph, it is obliged to notify the user of the smartphone.
 

 Simon has developed an application that follows the rules of Google and “notify” the phone owner. However, see the alert person can not, as an indicator – “icon” of size 1 × 1 pixel – not visible to the human eye at a density display 445 ppi.
 

 While the app is optimized only for Nexus 5, but there is no doubt that the attackers will find a way to hide the notification and other devices.