[ISN] ShmooCon 2011: Your Android's dirty little secret

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:12:38 -0600 (CST)
http://www.csoonline.com/article/659764/shmoocon-2011-your-android-s-dirty-little-secret

By Bill Brenner
Senior Editor
CSO
January 29, 2011 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Presenters at the ShmooCon security conference have 
spent much attention on mobile vulnerabilities in the last couple years, 
and several attendees this year say it's a topic of major importance to 
them.

Last year, a talk focused on weaknesses in the iPhone. This year, two 
researchers have targeted all their firepower on the Android.

In this morning's presentation, Jon Oberheide, CTO of DUO Security, and 
Zach Lanier, a senior consultant with the Intrepidus Group who 
specializes in network and web application penetration testing, walked 
attendees at ShmooCon 2011 through a series of weaknesses they 
discovered in the device at the kernel, platform and application levels.

Among their findings:

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