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Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

Google just made a huge change to the way application permissions work on Android devices which has left a potential door open to malicious app developers and hackers.



Google narrows down Android's 145 permissions into 13 broad categories and groups app permissions into 'groups of related permissions', likely for Android users to have an easier time dealing with app permissions.



http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHacker...ps-to.html

[Plexcon]

Pretty sure almost no one reads the permissions.

[Netero_mybb_import16981]

Well they are like privacy and registration terms, no one reads or care about them
,but they can make a problem for you. I mean you are about to install a AndroRat
and you just say accept and then you wonder why did you get hacked :\ that's a no brainier for me.
But this is kinda bad :\ because first update of my program is clean, second update I can
send messages via your phone and do lots more, and you wouldn't even know it.

Unless Google does something about it, I think there will be a lot of victims in this year.
Personal datas, emails , contacts all of them will be taken. If the developer is a black hat
hacker he can have access to you and your info, People use their phone more than PC
they even take it out to see the time... so it's the best place to attack someone.

Thanks for this news btw

[BlueCat]

Pretty sure almost no one reads the permissions.

They obviously do!

[Plexcon]

Pretty sure almost no one reads the permissions.

They obviously do!

Again "Almost no one"

[NinjaKnight]

Pretty sure almost no one reads the permissions.

I read the permissions all the time. Now it just isn't as long. :Frown: I like reading it.

-NinjaKnight-