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Posted Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 8:35 am by Antonio Wells 0 Comments
We have the final verdict, Google has removed the suspension placed on Android wallpaper apps falsely accused of spyware and stealing sensitive user data. Last week VentureBeat incorrectly reported wallpaper Android apps stole sensitive user data from millions who downloaded the app and sent the information to a website in China based on research mobile security firm Lookout revealed at a Blackhat hackers conference. VentureBeat later went on to correct some of the information, by that time of correction it was too late as worldwide media inaccurately reported the facts.Read Full Article
Posted Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 8:27 am by Antonio Wells 28 Comments![Android Wallpaper Apps Falsely Accused of Spyware and Stealing Sensitive User Data [FUD]](http://cdn.androidtapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Android-Wallpaper-Apps-Falsely-Accused-of-Spyware-and-Stealing-Sensitive-User-Data-FUD.jpg)
Wow! A recent VentureBeat article put the blogosphere and smartphone industry on its heels when a reported score of wallpaper Android apps were accused of being malicious. The wallpaper apps created by "jackeey,wallpaper" and "IceskYsl@1sters!" are indeed the same developer under separate accounts, and accused of sending private sensitive user data to servers in China to a website www.imnet.us. The worse part about all of this is no one, I mean no one fact checked accurately. VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, Fast Company, Fortune, PC World, Computerworld, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, etc. the list goes on and on and everybody jumped the gun in reporting the issue. No one asked the developer about it nor really looked into the methods Lookout used in building it’s report called the App Genome Project.Read Full Article
Posted Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 7:36 am by Antonio Wells 5 Comments
In a threat analysis report published by SMobile Systems, findings show about 20% of Android applications allow access to private data that could possibly be used maliciously. This is a real eye opener as some apps request many permissions upon download, some which do not seem necessary but when the full feature set of the app is examined, those permissions are justified. The key takeaways from this report is that a small number of apps are purposely malicious on the Market, yet still an issue of frightening concern.Read Full Article
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