How secure is your phone or tablet? Probably not as secure as you think. A recent study of more than 150,000 Android applications found some 12,700 contained hidden backdoor-like behavior, including secret access keys, master passwords, and secret commands. A team of academics from Europe and the U.S., including CCS faculty member Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, created and used a tool called InputScope to conduct the study. They found a variety of mechanisms that could give attackers access to users’ accounts, and even allow them to run code on the device with elevated privileges. Read all about it in an April 4, 2020 article on ZDNet.com.