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Saw this before reading this thread lol
http://m.androidcentral.com/security...lware-warningsComment
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Apple’s spotless record tarnished by App Store’s first malicious spam app
http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/05/iphone...pam-app-store/
Apple’s spotless record of keeping the App Store clear of malicious spam apps has been tarnished. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an app called “Find and Call” in Apple’s iOS App Store, Forbes noted on Thursday. The malicious app masquerades as a tool for simplifying contact lists but it instead uploads a user’s full contact list to a remote server and proceeds to send SMS and email spam to every person in the list. “It’s not for the first time when we see incidents related to user’s personal data and its leakage,” Kaspersky’s Denis Maslennikov wrote in a post on the company’s blog. “It’s for the first time when we have a confirmed case of malicious usage of such data… Yes, these pieces of malware are not that ‘cybercriminalistic’. But malware is malware and in this case it steals user’s phone book and uses it for SMS spam.”
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WALL STREET JOURNAL!Originally posted by iBreakbeat View Post
Security Researchers Backtrack on Android Malware Claim
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/07/...malware-claim/
Internet security researchers said Thursday they may have been mistaken about claims that mobile devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system were hacked and used to send spam emails.
The researchers from security company Sophos Ltd. and Google rival Microsoft Corp. each had written blog posts in recent days identifying what they said were incidents of Android devices being used to generate spam emails from Yahoo Mail’s app. A “spammer has control of a botnet that lives on Android devices,” Microsoft engineer Terry Zink wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser at Sophos, said he is rechecking his findings after Google and some other security researchers disputed findings of an Android “botnet,” or a cluster of computers hijacked by hackers.
In an interview Thursday, Mr. Wisniewski said that the spam he identified generated by Yahoo’s free Web-based email service was different than normal patterns of email spam but “we don’t know for sure that it’s coming from Android devices.”
On Thursday, Mr. Zink stated in a follow-up post that he also didn’t know for sure that Android devices had been compromised. “Yes, it’s entirely possible that bot on a compromised PC connected to Yahoo Mail” and insert the “Yahoo Mail for Android” tagline at the bottom of the spam messages “to make it look like the spam was coming from Android devices,” he wrote.
A Google spokesman earlier Thursday issued a statement disputing Mr. Zink’s claim of spam generated from Android phones: “The evidence we’ve examined does not support the Android botnet claim. Our analysis so far suggests that spammers are using infected computers and a fake mobile signature to try to bypass anti-spam mechanisms in the email platform they’re using. We’re continuing to investigate the details.”
Alex Stamos, chief technology officer of Web-security firm Artemis Internet, said he’d never seen spam from a mobile app and said it “makes no sense” to do so for several reasons, including that “spammers like” to use devices that that “allow them to send messages quickly” and they like the ability to change the Internet Protocol address–the label assigned to a computer logged on to the Internet—“which is very hard [to do] on a mobile network.”
Mr. Stamos added: “If Google says that this spam was using a faked signature, then I think that’s likely.”Last edited by ANDROIDISM; 07-05-2012, 08:17 PM.Comment
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Wow I am now debating whether I should by a new android or iPhone..Comment
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you obviously didn't read the whole thread. You probably have short attention spans. The iphone is perfect for you!Originally posted by CHOWWOKKA View PostComment
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You see this is the problem with the Android Community, it is filled with pimply assed virgins who get angry and upset at the common joe for not knowing the difference between RAM and ROM. Apple is a loving community with open arms who accepts everyone for who they are. <3Originally posted by ANDROIDISM View PostComment
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Don't know the difference between ram and rom, yet your debating whether to get iphone or android based on an article some Internet stranger posted that full of lies? I talk about not knowing shot. Go buy an iphone because android is out of your league.Originally posted by CHOWWOKKA View PostComment
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