More Android Security Issues Exposed – This Time From Apps Already Installed On Your Device
It wasn’t bad enough to have apps like CarrierIQ pre-installed on our devices which record our every swipe and now this. Researchers at North Carolina University have apparently uncovered some vulnerabilities in some apps that come pre-installed on Android devices that could potentially allow for malicious applications to wreak all kinds of havoc on our phones like sending SMS messages to sign you up for those 3rd party SMS services, record late night conversations with your bff – even factory reset a device and all without any input needed from the user. Fun.
Using a software tool the researchers developed called “Woodpecker,” the team was abl…
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More Android Security Issues Exposed – This Time From Apps Already Installed On Your Device
Chris Chavez – phandroid.com
Category: Phandroid
