“In a demonstration at the Black Hat security conference in Abu Dhabi, a UK researcher showed how a vulnerability in the web browser on an HTC Android phone allowed him to install an application that gave him broad control over the phone,” Menn reports.
“The Black Hat presentation was the latest in a series of findings in the past two weeks raising concerns about the security of Android phones,” Menn reports.
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bob” for the heads up.]
So, how’s that ‘open’ OS treatin’ ya?
As Daniel Eran Dilger has pointed out so many time on his blog, roughlydrafted.com, Android has no security. Google believes it’s a users’ responsibility. When they report a problem, then Google acts. Google is not responsible for anything.
There’s no limit to what Droid does. Literally!
MDN MW: children! Someone please think of the children!
Android…it’s the Microsoft Windows of the new millennium…and I don’t mean that in a good way.
If this was iphone news it would allready be on cnn, bbc and every other network and blog… after a few days consumer reports would come out to and steve would be emailing “we are working on it, stay tuned” oh and yes the world would end.
How could that possibly be taken in a good way!?
Gurgle: “Don’t BE evil.”*
*But DOING evil, however, is another matter.
Have you all forgotten jailbreakme.com? It took advantage of an iPhone font exploit, which allowed root access in mere seconds with a single tap, right in Safari.
Give me a break. iPhone has its security issues too.
Maybe the motto Gould be “there’s no limit to what Droid DOESN’T do”!
But, but, but, it’s open source. The code will be examined by the a community of coders and a fix made available within days.
Right. And then GoogMotoSammyHTCZTEVZE will push the patch to every affected version of Android on every device that’s every been released.
It is fitting that an OS built upon stolen code and other IP would be found vulnerable to online hacking & malware.
Karma’s a bitch.
The big difference between iOS security issues and Android security issues is that Apple will address and correct the problem. Google will dawdle around, blame it on handset makers, blame it on users, etc. Google isn’t interested in protecting the user, just getting the user to run a search for Android security patches/software.
This is not news, and it has nothing to do with the Mac.
FOCUS, MDN, FOCUS!!!
80,000 Chicago Bear fans watch Minnesota Sunday on a beautiful sunny day. But not one iPhone was working because ATT can’t get their shut straight. It not a farm in Iowa is downtown Chicago. Put a truck with an antenna you knuckle heads.
Please, sir, get off your high horse and wipe the manure from your boots. Everything that occurs in the tech sector–and especially to/with/by/for Apple’s direct competitors–is grist for the MDN mill. Period.
Something new/old/good/bad for Microsoft? We want to hear about it! Something new/old/good/bad for Google? Again, we want to hear about that too!
Don’t like it, Mike? Then don’t let the door hit you in the a** on your way out.
@ Ozy,
Lay off the drugs, dude.
@ “@ Mike”: Not everything that occurs in the tech sector has to do with Apple. But let’s say that it does. When’s the last time MDN reported on IBM or Motorola or T-Mobile or RedHat or Disney or TimeWarner or Cisco?
Just because Mac Daily News has become just another anti-MS rag, and you like it, you think it’s good journalism. MDN would be a great forum if it DID report all that affected Apple, but it doesn’t. It just fuels your narrow-minded opinions. At least my eyes are open enough to see reality.
Oh, and i hate MS no less than anyone else on the forum.
In closing: Screw you, you narrow-minded prick. Get a life and an actual name “@Mike”, you spineless twit.
Mike-
MDN doesn’t portend to be “journalism”.
It is a proprietary “blog” and aggregator of Apple, and other tech related news.
It can do whatever it wants.
As you can see by my name, I know of what I speak.