Android Security: Is This an Oxymoron?
March 30, 2011
When I read this, I said sub vocally, “Wow.”
The H Security reports, “Google’s Security Tool Infected With Trojan” explains how the new Android Market Security Tool, developed to delete the recent contaminated apps, actually is infested with a Trojan virus. Users are unaware about the newest infection after a rash of harmful apps hit the Android phone in recent weeks. They were informed to expect the new tool to clean up their phones, but it’s making greater knots in the mangled data. Good news is that the infected security tool is only on an unregulated network in China.
According to an initial analysis by Symantec, the Trojan contacts a control server and is able to send text messages if commanded to do so. According to F-Secure, BGServ (as the contaminant is called) also sends user data to the server after being installed.
Wow.
We are offered the same age- old advice to protect our technology from digital infection: don’t open the application unless you know who sent it. Great advice for everyone in general and maybe for Android folks in particular.
Whitney Grace, March 30, 2011
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