The risks of flexibility

Recently, news broke that on the Android Marketplace, there were a large number of innocent looking apps discovered like chess and Super Guitar solo that turned out to be malware. These apps were found to steal data off your phone and opened up holes in the device so that they could be exploited for other, malicious, purposes. Google is proactively working to fix the situation but that aside, this incident illustrates what can happen with such a flexible system like Android. Read More »