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What Jeff Bezos Can Teach You About Smartphone Security [lifehacker.com]:

Jeff Bezos might be (much) wealthier than you, but he’s not smarter than you—at least, not when it comes to basic smartphone security. As you probably read and laughed at (and then sighed at, after you looked up how much Bezos makes each minute), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently sent Bezos a video file via WhatsApp. This file actually “contained malware that penetrated Bezos’s mobile phone and exfiltrated a large amount of data within hours,” describes The Guardian.

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