8 popular smartphone running Android's leading manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Google is "sticky" 11 serious security flaws allow the bad guys through the security system, according to new research published.
Security system based on the user's permission (permission-based) on Android can easily be bypassed because of the "hole" due to the smartphone manufacturer and tablet to leave when they add products products of their own applications. That was the conclusion of the report by researchers North Carolina State University, U.S. made.
With this vulnerability, the bad guys use these malicious applications can eavesdrop on conversations without leaving a trace, record the GPS coordinates "hot" by users, send SMS to the phone number to charge and completely remove data from memory devices ... Things like that do not require any permission to any user, the researchers said.
Scientists have tested eight popular types of smartphones in the U.S. market, including HTC Legend, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Wildfire S, Motorola Droid, Droid X Motorola, Samsung Epic 4G, Google and Google Nexus Nexus S. Results, the researchers found 11 likely ignore safety regulations in 13 different information, which, especially Evo 4G HTC smartphone to contain eight vulnerabilities, most of these devices mentioned.
According to the researchers, the main features of the Android security system is dependent on the user determine whether to allow applications to access the different functions of the device or not when they set up an application , and this is difficult to ensure safety to avoid. For comparison, the Apple experts always check before making the application on the app store App Store while Google does not perform this step to check additional software applications on the Android Market.
Experts from the University of North Carolina sent a findings for each smartphone manufacturer have been tested. However, only Motorola and Google response, confirming the existence of the errors mentioned. Samsung and HTC did not respond for this study and they can choose to ignore, according to experts.
Recently, the topic of security devices with Android is mentioned quite often. According to some analysts, a twelve applications for the platform to be toxic. But recently, the experts of the Russian company Doctor Web has detected an official list of more than 30 applications from sending the SMS to the phone number and charge by the way, "abrasive" account users of mobile devices.
In May 6 / 2011, the expert provider of security solutions largest Symantec concluded that Android has a low security level. Unlike IOS, Google's platform was to be virtually powerless against the attacks of malicious software as well as less confidence in data protection.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Detected 11 major flaw in the smartphone Samsung, Motorola, HTC
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