The Ubuntu developers met last week in Dallas to make final design decisions about the popular Linux distribution’s features and decided to use LibreOffice for its office suite.
A team of security researchers has created a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android handsets that is capable of listening out for credit card numbers – typed or spoken – and relaying them back to the application’s creator.
The team, comprised of Roman Schlegel from the City University of Hong Kong and Kehuan Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhou, Mehool Intwala, Apu Kapadia, and Xiao Feng Wang from the Indiana University Bloomington, call their creation ‘Soundminer’ – and its implications are far-reaching.
[Nice. But how do you get this app installed on the phone in the first place? Are not all apps in the Android marketplace vetted before being accepted?]
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