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Researchers uncover faulty encryption in apps available in Google's Play Market.
Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users can expose end users' online banking and social networking credentials, e-mail and instant-messaging contents because the programs use inadequate encryption protections, computer scientists have found.
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Die Sicherheitsexperten von G-Data haben einen neuen Android-Schädling entdeckt, der selbstständig kostenpflichtige Apps herunterlädt.
G-Data empfiehlt zum Schutz von solchen und ähnlichen Schädlingen die Installation einer Sicherheitslösung auf dem mobilen Gerät. Außerdem sollte das Gerät und die darauf installierten Applikationen immer aktuell gehalten werden, um so auch vor bereits bekannten und geschlossenen Sicherheitslücken geschützt zu sein. Grundsätzlich sollten Apps nur aus vertrauenswürdigen Quellen heruntergeladen und installiert werden. Dazu zählen etwa Google Play und die Marktplätze der Hersteller.
In diesem Artikel finden Sie weitere Tipps, wie Sie ein Android-Gerät absichern können:
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Downloading apps from Google Play, the official online Android app market, is not without its dangers.
Even though Google has been scanning the offered apps for malware by using "Bouncer" - an automated app scanning service that should, in theory, detect malicious software and developers who keep offering it - there are still instances where they aren't booted out of the market soon enough.
Security researchers from AegisLab have recently discovered over 15 fake AV and "free SMS" apps being offered by the same developer ("thasnimola") that has been flagged for selling fake NQ Mobile apps in April.
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Lookout warnt vor dem erstern Drive-by-Download-Schädling für Android-Nutzer. „NotCompatible“ mogelt sich fast automatisch auf Ihr Smartphone.
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An information-stealing botnet discovered in the official Android Market has been downloaded several million times this year, according to Symantec.
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Webroot researchers have recently spotted an app that supposedly shows users aggregated 2012 Olympics news, but also harvests their contacts list, reads their text messages, and collects information about the device's ID and location.
The app is called “London Olympics Widget”, and has a digital certificate claiming it was developed in New Delhi, India, making it pretty obvious that it's not the official London 2012 mobile app.
===> Be Aware of the Malware! <===
Read more: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2208
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A new Android trojan that provides a variation on covert premium calls has been located in China: it secretly buys apps via China Mobile’s Android Market. The cost is automatically added to the user’s phone bill.
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Analysts with Lookout Mobile Security have found websites that have been hacked to deliver malicious software to devices running Android, an apparent new attack vector crafted for the mobile operating system.
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If you think Android phones are immune from malware, listen up: you need to protect yourself. A recent exploit that stole personal data shows why.
There are a few anti-malware apps for Android, including Norton Antivirus & Security, and McAfee Mobile Security among others. Those can help, but they won’t catch everything.
To really be secure, you also have to pay attention to the permissions an app is looking for when you’re installing...if a game is looking for access to your contact list, think twice before accepting. But in some cases, even that isn’t enough, because this particular exploit didn’t even ask for permissions.
===> Ultimately, you should be trying to only get apps from trusted sources. <===
And you should always try to check around to be sure that an app is safe before installing it on an impulse. Just the same what you used to do (or should have done) on your PC.
The more things change…
Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/blogs/android/2012/04/02/android-malware-the-more-things-change/63570/#ixzz1qtiS0RTd
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