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No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Mar 2011 20:34, "Vince Marsters" <vi...@marsters.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:24 +0000, Barry Titterton wrote: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923 >> >> They sound more like trojans than viruses to my untrained ear. >> I expect the same would apply to any linux system if you installed a bad >> software package; the malicious code would then be free to do what it >> liked. Though it does say towards the end of the article that Google has >> closed the vulnerabilities that the code was exploiting. >> >> The article also quoted Trend Micro having a swipe at Open Source saying >> that it was "a very attractive criminal playground". >> >> Would the experts like to comment on my understanding of this, or on >> security in general? > > They forgot (or I am going blind and missed it) that it was less than 5 > minutes after Google were alerted till the apps were removed from the > store. Not bad going really > > As you said, they were boobytrapped with a trojan which was capable of > sending loads of personal data and also downloading other malicious > content. > > Vince > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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