{"id":852167,"date":"2024-09-05T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=852167"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:44:17","slug":"google-releases-new-pixel-software-update-to-remove-security-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/05\/google-releases-new-pixel-software-update-to-remove-security-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Google releases new Pixel software update to remove security vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a Google Pixel smartphone, don\u2019t forget to update it with the latest version of the Android software to fix a major security loophole in the device.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Google had reportedly installed a hidden app known as \u201cShowcase.apk\u201d on all Pixel handsets to enable in-store demos of the device at certain stores. Over time, the piece of software became inactive as it was no longer used.<\/p>\n<p>However, cybersecurity company iVerify discovered last month that the Showcase.apk file could potentially be exploited to make Pixel smartphones \u201caccessible to hackers and ripe for man-in-the-middle attacks, code injection, and spyware.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a Google Pixel smartphone, don\u2019t forget to update it with the latest version of the Android software to fix a major security loophole in the device. A few years ago, Google had reportedly installed a hidden app known as \u201cShowcase.apk\u201d on all Pixel handsets to enable in-store demos of the device at certain stores. Over time, the piece of software became inactive as it was no longer used. However, cybersecurity company iVerify discovered last month that the Showcase.apk file could potentially be exploited to make Pixel smartphones \u201caccessible to hackers and ripe for man-in-the-middle attacks, code injection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}