Android Smart Phone Hacked; Information Sent to China

Android Smart Phone Hacked; Information Sent to China

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Google’s Android smart phone operating system—once thought to be completely secure —has been hacked by a Chinese-owned server, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010 Technical Security Conference over the weekend in Las Vegas.

Free wallpaper applications like Jackeey Wallpaper —an application from the Android Market with millions of downloads—contain software that can obtain personal information from infected phones and send it to the Chinese server, John Hering, CEO of the

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The new smart phone 'Zio M6000' based on Google's Android OS with a 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD display in Tokyo on July 16.

The mobile operating system Google Inc. have spent a great deal of developing has suddenly gone to waste, with the smartphone's OS being hacked and sent to a discreet Chinese server.

No one can have second guesses as to what the Chinese will be doing with the Android. Probably reverse-engineer it.

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