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Google has taken a huge step to sanitize its Play Store space, as it has removed 813 apps that were identified as ‘Creepware’ by a group of researchers. This discovery was made by these researchers via a newly developed algorithm known as CreepRank.
CreepRank recognizes creepware-like behaviour within mobile apps and then gives ‘creep scores’ to these apps, qualifying them as creepware. Creepware are apps that can be utilized for interpersonal attacks, creepware apps may not be stalkerware or spyware but can be used to threaten or stalk another individual, directly or indirectly.
These findings were published in an academic paper from the New York University, Cornell Tech and NortonLifeLock Research Group. This kind of findings are important to improve security on platforms like the Play Store.
The researchers claimed in their paper that apps installed on roughly 50 million Android devices were analysed. It also noted that a wide variety of potential creepware apps were discovered by this algorithm, as 1,000 apps with the highest CreepRank scores were manually analysed and coded to understand them.
CreepRank successfully identified over 1,000,000 installs of various creepware apps, including apps that enable harassment like SMS bombers.
The researchers notified Google about these apps, leading to the removal of 813 apps for violating the Google Play Store’s terms and conditions. This is a step in the right direction for the tech company, as users’ security is key in a fast-growing digital world.
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Apple has recently updated its App Store, with a new dark mode support now available for iPad and iPhones, allowing users search for apps through a black user interface.
The latest version 5.8 of the Apple Store app continues Dark Mode integration across its first-party app offerings. The Dark Mode switches bright screen elements for darker alternatives, helping to ease eye strain especially in periods of reduced natural lighting.
This operating mode is unlike any simple color inversion configuration, effectively altering text and other graphical assets from black to white while retaining the color in images. Apple’s Store app also provides users with a direct online portal to the company’s digital storefront with customized purchasing recommendations, product specifications and information, repair options and more, acting as a one-stop shop for every and anything Apple Store.
This update also brings other changes aside the new Dark Mode, with the regular performance enhancements and bug fixes made on the app to improve overall performance and enhance app user experience. This update arrives just after the tech company revamped and redesigned the Apple Support app with Dark Mode last month.
You can get the latest instalment of the Store app on the App store at no extra cost for your iPhones and iPads.
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