Researchers Reveal Massive Encryption Faults in Android Apps Used by Millions

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A team of computer science researchers have revealed that Android apps used by as many as 185 million people can expose online banking and social network credentials, as well as emails and IM content.

The researchers, from Germany's Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg, have identified 41 apps available on the Play store which leak sensitive information as it travels between phones and servers. The team recreated real-life app use on a local area network and then used existing security exploits to garner confidential information, reports Ars Technica. The researchers write:
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[MalwareVirus]

This is the example how we put our life on risks just because our playing habbits but what we can do even yahoo,twitter are hacks but generally many of us don't store our sensitive data on our emails but phones ?
Really this is serious.Thanx for sharing such a good article

 

[mercurial]

well only google app have net access ony my GS2 rest are blocked network access via firewall...so unless google is upto all that as well i think im safe