The developer said skip the security precautions in mobile phone applications such as "Facebook Messenger" can be misused to make phone calls are expensive at the expense of the victim.
Often appear in the form of phone numbers, links to mobile devices through the use of Uniform Resource Identifier scheme called Tel URI to initiate calls.
And schemes, "Yu SRI" URI large family of descriptions that can teach the computer about what way performs, such as clicking on a link to an email address leads to run e-mail application.
Said Andre Nikolaysa, a developer working for the company broadcast wireless networks "airtime" Airtame in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, if there is a danger in how to handle most of the mobile applications with phone numbers.
In the case of someone clicking on a phone number within the web browser "Safari" of the company "Apple", a pop-up window appears asking if the person wants to continue to make the call.
But many of the basic mobile phone applications, including "Facebook Messenger" and "Hang Oates" Do not do so, and proceed to make the call without making sure the user. This can re-create mobile applications to view these warnings, which are disabled in most applications.
He found Andre way to exploit it, where he set up a Web page that contains the code "Javascript" caused in making the application portable being a call once that someone open the page, where the code is running the scheme, "Yu SRI" private phone number automatically as soon as you open the page.
According to Andre, the application of "Facebook Messenger", and the application of "Fastaym" Facetime of "Apple", and applied Gmail and Google Plus from Google does not warn users before making calls.
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