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Wednesday 18 May 2011

New smartphone privacy alert as Android handsets found to be prone to leaking data




More fears about privacy have surfaced this week. Millions of smartphones which use the Android software promoted by Google are a security risk, it was claimed yesterday. Researchers found that criminals can tap into the transfer of information between the phones and the internet, gaining access to personal data. The discovery was made by security experts at the University of Ulm in Germany.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1388107/New-smartphone-privacy-alert-Android-handsets-prone-leaking-data.html#ixzz1Mgs2FFgd

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