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Your phone's best file-sharing app is a sitting duck for hackers. Fix it now!

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AirDrop for iPhone and Quick Share for Android offer fun ways to quickly send photos, videos, and other files to other devices within a 30-foot radius via Bluetooth and WiFi. Unfortunately, researchers claim that these services are compromised, and hackers can exploit them to make your life miserable. Whether you use an iPhone or you have an Android phone, the fix is the same. Not one, not two, but six vulnerabilities have been uncovered in both Apple’s AirDrop and Android’s Quick Share file-sharing systems. This revelation came directly from security researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany . Here's what you're looking at in terms of risks and threats. The vulnerabilities Both AirDrop and Quick Share are designed to allow users to send various files wirelessly from one device to another, even if you don’t have the contact information of the other device saved to your phone. Up until recently, AirDrop only worked between devices in Apple’s ecosystem