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Android Rootkit Is Just a Phone Call Away
alphadogg writes "Hoping to understand what a new generation of mobile malware could resemble, security researchers will demonstrate a malicious 'rootkit' program they've written for Google's Android phone next month at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas. Once it's installed on the Android phone, the rootkit can be activated via a phone call or SMS message, giving attackers a stealthy and hard-to-detect tool for siphoning data from the phone or misdirecting the user. 'You call the phone, the phone doesn't ring, and when the phone realizes that it's being called by an attacker's phone number, it sends him back a shell [program],' said Christian Papathanasiou, a security consultant with Chicago's Trustwave, the company that did the research."
And your reaction to it is pure hilarity, moron.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Mod parent up, for all the transparency Apple gives developers that might as well be the process.
Can I have JUST a telephone please? You know, just to make calls.
So, they are killing the ohh, so dangerous open PC's for the sake of ooops, so dangerous "appliances". Mission accomplished!
#4 is inaccurate - Opera mini has been approved for iPhone.
You can't even make a proper table for d6 results..