Android vulnerability

Every operating system has weaknesses that allow unauthorized access and use of their personal information and your Android is no exception. Over time, several vulnerabilities have been reported, affecting only some phones HTC or Samsung, which could facilitate the malware, obtain data from the address book, emails or posting of invoice by accessing premium rate services.Although Google seems to try to solve these problems, behold a newly discovered vulnerability in almost all versions of Android, starting with Donut (1.6).Researchers from North Carolina State University have reported the possibility of receiving an SMS message, which can occur as a person in the phone book or from a bank containing a link to an infected website or phone number whose call very expensive.The technique, known as smishing, user is the belief that the message comes from a reliable source, which causes him to access without restraint harmful content.The vulnerability has been sent Google Android Security Team has confirmed it and started working on a solution that will be included in a future version of Android. Although, to date, there have been reported cases where vulnerability discovered to be used, details were not made ​​public to protect yourself you should not install applications from unknown sources, do not access suspicious links and take care to contents of SMS messages received.How Android updates come rarely and not all phones remains to be seen whether the free update Bitdefender USSD Wipe Stopper will launch a dedicated solution or just this new vulnerabilities.