Security flaw found in Google phone
by Andrew Redfern @ 28th October 2008 4:29 pm
According to a team of computer security experts Google’s new G1 phone has a serious security flaw which could leave users unwittingly giving away their personal details to criminals.
Charles Miller one of the team who identified the flaw says the problem centres around the phone’s web browser application. Hackers could use a security loophole to send the user to a fake website. Once there keystroke-logging software would be uploaded onto the phone enabling fraudsters to get a record of keystrokes made on the device. This would unlock passwords, logons and personal details that could enable large-scale identity theft before the user was ever aware their was a problem.
According the group Google has been informed of the problem and is looking into the matter. “We wanted to sandbox every single application because you can’t trust any of them,” Rich Cannings, of Google told the New York Times. He stated that they were working on getting a software fix to all users of the G1 phone but that the danger was minimal because phone’s built-in security features unauthorised users would only be able to access one system application at a time.
The phone has been available in the US since October 22nd and is available in the UK on October 30th.
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