Jul 27,2010
Three Steps to a MITM’ed Android Device
In the first piece in this series we looked at an iPhone vulnerability which makes it easy for a hacker to hijack an iPhone's data connection, and the serious security implications this could have for your network. But the iPhone is by no means unique in being susceptible to data hijacking -- weaknesses in Android's UI and in its permissions granting mechanism mean that phones running Google's open source mobile OS can have their data connections hijacked just as easily. If the data connection is rerouted through a proxy under a hacker's control then they can browse the data and gather ...

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