'Unhackable' Android can be hacked, Black Hat researchers say

Posted by bubblehead74 on Jul 30, 2010 9:49 AM EDT
Computerworld; By Tim Greene
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Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. Not only has malicious software cloaked in a wallpaper application stolen personal information from infected phones and sent it to a Web site in China, but researchers from Lookout Mobile Security have found a way to take the phones over completely - including top-of-the-line models hawked by major wireless carriers.

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