Monday, July 25, 2011

The risk of data leakage on Android


Since the Android open platform should be a lot of hackers interested in – Picture: AFP

(TNO) Dasient Security firm has surveyed 10,000 randomly Android application runs on mobile phones, and currently has about 8% can help hackers to steal personal information of users.
According to Digital Trends, of which there are many malicious applications and can automatically send messages to friends in the directories of users for the purpose of fraud. Initially, users will be injustice to lose money to pay for the SMS did not know this.
In addition to personal data, some malware can steal your phone’s IMEI number. With this information, many manufacturers can tamper with the phones IMEI number looked like it from the original manufacturer.
Dasient expected, the number of software malicious Android will double within two years the trend growth of the platform.
According to security experts, the malicious software to appear more on Android is because the regulation “system” of Google, while allowing developers to freely give up their applications without having to store censorship as much as Apple’s App Store.
Source:vietnamandroid.com

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