Recently, some apps in Android Apps Store are believed to be lined with malicious code that able to steal user's information (privacy risk).
This is mainly caused by the openness of Android, which will approved any apps to be put into its apps store and allow anyone to download them regardless of the handphone's OS you using. Even though the characteristic of Android makes a lot of developers love it, but it raises the security risk.
Present, Android has been pulled out those malicious apps from the apps stores and released a patch for the flaw exploited on the Android OS.
I would like to advice any android users who reading this post to run updates of your hand phone and check out these websites if you want to know are you affected by these malicious apps.
http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/android-malware-apps/
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/new-android-threat-gives-phone-root-canal
For more information, please refer to
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/02/google.android.hack/index.html?npt=NP1
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