From: Justin C on 10 Aug 2010 10:29 On 2010-08-10, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote: >> R4 Today programme mentioned apps for smartphones that were snaffling >> user data and passwords and sending them off to naughty people... or >> at >> least to the authors who must be a bit dodgy. Author of the peice said >> that in x number of days he'd written his own snaffling program, and >> that he doesn't know how to write software. >> >> What I'm curious about is whether any of these have been found on iOS, >> have they been found in the app store? Or is it just other OS phones >> that are seeing these due to weakness in the OS? > > They have been found on android. The thing is not really anything to do > with any weakness in the OS, it is perfectly legitimate for an > application to want to get this data under certain circumstances, it is > a question of how much data it gets and what it does with it. > > Reading back you said passwords, I hadn't heard of that, and that would > be a flaw, the android thing was just getting names and numbers. I was referring to someone storing bank login info in plain text, nothing like hacking keychain. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea.
From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 Aug 2010 17:47 Justin C <justin.1007(a)purestblue.com> wrote: > R4 Today programme mentioned apps for smartphones that were snaffling > user data and passwords and sending them off to naughty people... or at > least to the authors who must be a bit dodgy. Have a look at this one: "Smartphone security put on test By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News" <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10912376> "BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset." > Author of the peice said > that in x number of days he'd written his own snaffling program, and > that he doesn't know how to write software. [snip] See above for more details... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
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