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Android Malware Intercepts Text Messages, Forwards To Criminals
An anonymous reader writes "A new piece of Android malware has been discovered that can intercept your incoming text messages and forward them on to criminals. Once installed, the trojan can be used to steal sensitive messages for blackmailing purposes or more directly, codes which are used to confirm online banking transactions. The malware in question, detected as "Android.Pincer.2.origin" by Russian security firm Doctor Web, is the second iteration of the Android.Pincer family according to the company. Both threats spread as security certificates, meaning they must be deliberately installed onto an Android device by a careless user."
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'I don't know what it's called. I just know the sound it makes, when it takes a man's life.' ~ Four Leaf Tayback
Android is so buggy that it's useless. Try moving a bunch of apps to external SD card. The device will bootloop. This has been a bug in Android since v2.3.5 and Google doesn't give a shit. That's aside from all of the crap like black screen of death, laggy UI (even after "project butter"), apps that are simply allowed to run perpetually in the background sucking up battery and stuff generally breaking by itself.
My Windows Phone, on the other hand, actually works and I can count on it to not start acting weirdly all of a sudden. Almost every single application that I used to use on Android has an equal or superior app on WP8. Sure, there are some shortcomings, like not being able to handle MKV containers or not being able to play FLAC files and a small library of games, but those are minor inconveniences compared to the nightmare that I went through with Android.