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Android sercurity flaw detected
- USA: Monday, October 01 - 2012 at 09:48
Computer security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar has said mobile phones using Google's Android operating system are at risk of being disabled or wiped clean of their data, including contacts, music and photos, because of a security flaw that was discovered several months ago but went unnoticed until now, the Associated Press has reported. Opening a link to a website or a mobile application embedded with malicious code can trigger an attack capable of destroying the SIM card in Android-equipped handsets, rendering the devices useless, said Borgaonkar. Google was informed of the vulnerability in June, he said, and a fix was issued quickly, but it wasn't publicised, leaving smartphone owners largely unaware that the problem existed and how they could fix it.
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