{"id":65716,"date":"2016-05-11T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65716"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:34:18","slug":"beware-iavas-vetmoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65716","title":{"rendered":"Beware IAVA&#8217;s Vetmoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/new-emoji-app-for-veterans-contains-major-security-flaw\">Popular Science<\/a> which warns about Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America-commissioned emoji application for smart phones. It&#8217;s supposed to be a clever little thing to add to your phone so you can use emojis that have little patrol caps and military-oriented subjects;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was super excited when I got the email from IAVA about new military emojis. I gladly paid the $1.99 and then was told the app needs full access to my phone with a key logger. This allows the app to track and store sensitive information like credit card numbers and [Social Security] numbers. More importantly I can&#8217;t communicate with my troops on drill activities or fellow employees as a police officer. I denied access and every time I type a message and click the emoji keyboard to add an emoji I get an additional pop up screen asking me allow access to this additional keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Technical Information Center listed keyloggers as malicious code, noting they can corrupt files and destroy or modify information, compromise that information and lose it, or give hackers access to sabotage systems. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a hard time believing that IAVA intentionally decided to give hackers a helping hand busting into your phones. However, I can believe that the IAVA would sell a defective product to line their pockets without getting a professional opinion on it&#8217;s security. I can barely answer my phone let alone start sending pretty messages, so I have no apps on my phone that aren&#8217;t related to that function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard sends us a link to Popular Science which warns about Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of &hellip; <a title=\"Beware IAVA&#8217;s Vetmoji\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65716\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware IAVA&#8217;s Vetmoji<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}