BBC Tests Smartphone Security
News Security
The BBC has demonstrated how easy it is for hackers to develop a malicious smartphone application that can be used to steal private user data and send it to a third party's e-mail account.In a special report released by BBC News, the corporation showed how it used a popular smartphone application toolkit in order to a create a spyware program. The program is hard to detect as it uses the same functionality as a legitimate application.The BBC said that the software was...
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