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Title: Security flaw opens all modern Android devices to "zombie botnet" takeover [u]
Post by: HCK on July 04, 2013, 03:01:43 pm
Security flaw opens all modern Android devices to "zombie botnet" takeover
         


A newly discovered flaw in Google's Android security model enables rogue apps to gain full access to the Android system and all installed apps, read all data on the device, harvest passwords and create a botnet of "always-on, always-connected and always-moving" spy devices tracking users' location while secretly recording.
         

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