donderdag 1 maart 2012

How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone

How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone:

If Android users click the wrong link, an attacker could intercept phone calls and track their location.


A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the RSA security conference today showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's Android operating system could give an attacker full remote control of your phone. Once George Kurtz and colleagues from security startup CrowdStrike were done, they could record phone calls, intercept text messages, and track the hacked phone's location at all times.