Besides cleaning emails, the tool is also capable of telling users which trackers were detected. Now rolling out in open beta, DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection scrubs trackers from emails and forwards the clean version to a private address set up through the tool. If you’re keen to prevent emails from scraping information from you, DuckDuckGo has a new tool to keep your private communiques safe. Instead of blatant scams, malicious (or even non-malicious) emailers have grown savvier, sneakily peppering emails with unseen trackers. The days of zillionaire Nigerian princes are long gone. SEE ALSO: Snapdragon chips have over 400 new vulnerabilities If they have already been patched, grab the latest version as soon as you can. If you have any of the apps listed, it might be a good idea to shelve the unpatched apps for now. On the other hand, a few listed apps - like Grindr and Moovit - has already patched their respective apps after being listed today. The list includes Viber,, OKCupid, Edge, Xrecorder, and PowerDirector. Today, Check Point Research named some of the apps that they already notified of the vulnerability. However, besides Google themselves, the affected apps should also patch their own software to reflect the changed, more secure system. Thankfully, Google had already patched the vulnerability earlier this year. In there, the hacker can then consider itself as coming from a verified source, bypassing Android’s usual security measures. Without getting into technical details, malicious parties can exploit the vulnerability and access an Android phone’s system files. Specifically, the vulnerability affects the Google Play Core Library, one of Google Play Services’ essential systems. Now, for example, some of the world’s more popular apps - like Viber - are current at high risk of getting your phone hacked. However, there are rare times when reliable apps fall into occasional pits of controversy. Most have names that clearly reveal their nature to a discerning user. If you read most vulnerability reports today, most risky apps are, quite obviously, risky.
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