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Check Point Research will today spill the beans on security holes it found within the audio processor firmware in millions of smartphones, which can be potentially exploited by malicious apps to secretly eavesdrop on people. The infosec outfit believes as many as 37 per cent of smartphones globally are vulnerable. The flaws, patches for which were released last month, lie deep within handsets: in the code that controls an audio-processing unit inside system-on-chips designed by Taiwan's MediaTek...