Be alert for smartphone users! Hackers snoop or spy on Android Users

USER Android get ready any time the data was stolen hackers. Because hackers already know where the gaps are seen as weak on Android.

Some gaps can be infiltrated by hackers is Google Calendar, Contact, and Picasa application.



''For example, a hacker has full access to Calendar, then they can freely take information on contact, or personal websites albums of users,''the researchers wrote the application from the University of Ulm, Germany.

Mentioned again, that hackers can view, modify, or delete a contacts, calendar events, and personal image. ''This is not limited to items that are synchronized. But can affect each other all the items owned by the user.''

Keep watch on Android are Authenctication Tokens, which contain data. Usually Authenctication Tokens are sent to the smart phone as an encrypted file. But computer experts from research, Android handset up to version 2.3.3 accept plain text files that can be read anyone. Though currently 99.7% of Android handsets are still running version 2.3.3.

Well Authenctication Tokens are usually opened by users log in to online services through the application. That's where the hackers began to read user data Android, Google's because this handset can be read anyone.

Researchers from the University of Ulm advises users to avoid online network that uses WiFi is not encrypted, until Google makes the version 2.3.4,