LXer: 'Unhackable' Android can be hacked, Black Hat researchers say

LXer · 07-30-2010, 08:50 AM

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Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. Not only has malicious software cloaked in a wallpaper application stolen personal information from infected phones and sent it to a Web site in China, but researchers from Lookout Mobile Security have found a way to take the phones over completely - including top-of-the-line models hawked by major wireless carriers.

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Hangdog42 · 07-30-2010, 11:38 AM

I gotta get a job as a blogger, apparently you need no brain to do and it must pay decently since there are so many out there. This moron morphs an announcement that the Droid X bootloader might get locked down into the idea that the entire Android OS was deemed unhackable. By this kind of logic, the fact that my neighbor has a beige car should mean I get Ballmer's job when they fire his monkey behind.