One in every five applications in the Android Android Market applications is claimed can turn into bad thing because it has a weak system and can be tricked by hackers.
This was stated by internet security firm SMobile System, as quoted by Cellular News, Monday (06/28/2010).
According to SMobile System, thousands of Android applications are mostly made by third parties. These applications can access personal and sensitive information held by users’ android. This is able to attract hackers to break into the application and rode it for malicious purposes.
In conclusion these results, SMobile Systems has analyzed approximately 48 000 applications that currently meets the Android Market.
For additional information, approximately five percent of applications in research have the ability to make phone calls to all phone numbers without requiring permission from the user. Meanwhile, two percent of these applications can directly perform sending SMS to premium numbers without the user’s knowledge.
“Architecture that drives the open-source Android phone and abundant store of applications available for all the smartphone devices has enabled developers to quickly create new applications. As a result, applications that are currently available have the potential to cause serious damage to the device, subscribers and cellular networks broader, “said Director of Technology Systems SMobile of Daniel V. Hoffman.






