Mar
24

The Security for the Android

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Mid February saw an unknown developer a number of applications for Android Smartphone titles, including Time Bowling, Super Guitar Solo Dice Roller and Google Android Market.

Two weeks later, a blogger discovered that these claims actually Trojans, they contain malicious code, called DroidDream designed the order was a user’s Android phone were infected. The attack is a back door into the text of the victim, so that the attackers install malicious software on the device.

On 1 March Google remove the demands of Troy, a total of 58 found malware DroidDream were included. Google also said it had determined that nearly 260,000 Android phones were infected, even if no personal information compromised. Google then uses a feature built into Android, which allows him to remote to remove malicious applications from infected computers.

But today almost half of all Android users are still vulnerable to a software error, the exploited DroidDream. Google removed the actual packages, which have exploited the error, but does not resolve the underlying vulnerability, “said Kevin Mahaffey, Chief Technology Officer at Mobile Security Company Lookout, which analyzes the malware.
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With Android, each phone its own company building the Android operating system so that it includes its own user interface, graphics and branding. Although Google released an updated version of Android, which has the vulnerability soon after it was discovered, at least 42 percent of mobile phones an older version, which fixes still vulnerable, according to the website Android developers.

Mobile phones need a lot of fixing hardware manufacturer to resolve their own updates the integration of Google, they test the updates and send them to the carrier, which also test patches before referring them to the customers. Apps for Android, including developed by Google, could be updated by the Android Market, but the system software must be updated by the support.

“It is absolutely a problem, it is not fast enough,” said Zach Lanier, a security consultant with mobile services company security intrepidus Group. Lanier added that many smart phones can never be updated because carrier gently downward risks pushing software patches which may affect their networks are. Manufacturers are also faced with dozens of mobile phone models, and tested the software against these devices is the hand-d to work. Google would not work on Android security comment, but the company says, it is with handset manufacturers and carriers to resolve the problems.