Smartphone security put on test

Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 10/08/2010 15:23

BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone.

Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset.

The application was built using standard parts from the software toolkits that developers use to create programs for handsets.

To read this BBC News report in full, see:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10912376

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