I mean, the guy even stakes his reputation on it!
Developers warn of Android pop-up threats
Summary
Researchers have discovered what they say is a design flaw in Android that could be used by criminals to steal data via phishing or by advertisers to bring annoying pop-up ads to phones.
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Developers can create apps that appear to be innocuous but which can display a fake bank app log-in page, for instance, when the user is using the legitimate bank app, Nicholas Percoco, senior vice president and head of SpiderLabs at Trustwave, said ahead of his presentation on the research at the DefCon hacker conference today.
Currently, apps that want to communicate with the user while a different app is being viewed just push an alert to the notification bar on the top of the screen. But there is an application programming interface in Android's Software Development Kit that can be used to push a particular app to the foreground, he said.
The researchers have created a proof-of-concept tool that is a game but also triggers fake displays for Facebook, Amazon, Google Voice, and the Google e-mail client. The tool installs itself as part of a payload inside a legitimate app and registers as a service so it comes back up after the phone reboots, Percoco said.
For more on this story, read Android could allow mobile ad or phishing pop-ups on CNET News.
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somebody told me that Android/Linux is so safe, that what you wrote about is just plane impossible.
I mean, the guy even stakes his reputation on it!
I mean, the guy even stakes his reputation on it!
@William Farrell
Who told you Android was so safe, present supporting facts to your claim. Without supporting facts sounds like the old anti-Linux rants.
Who told you Android was so safe, present supporting facts to your claim. Without supporting facts sounds like the old anti-Linux rants.
@daikon You must be new here. He's mocking Dietrich T. Schmitz, a guy who won't even acknowledge a system other than Linux.
@daikon Otherwise known as "The Linux (Insert choice word/insult here) Advocate".
And come on Aero, he does acknowledge other systems, when he is trying to bash them unsuccessfully.
And come on Aero, he does acknowledge other systems, when he is trying to bash them unsuccessfully.
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