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Thread ID: 126949 2012-09-26 09:27:00 WARNING for all ANDROID users - be careful what you do or go. wainuitech (129) PC World Chat
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1303532 2012-09-28 22:40:00 That's right. At one stage, they went too far ahead with the technology to the extent that only Symbian OS is capable of handling the image capturing/processing.
Precisely why I'll probably buy an 808, but as I say, no service here, so no point
KarameaDave (15222)
1303533 2012-09-29 00:05:00 Precisely why I'll probably buy an 808, but as I say, no service here, so no point
If there is no service why are you going to buy one in the first place? :confused:
Nick G (16709)
1303534 2012-09-29 00:49:00 Because, when we travel I like to be able to have a phone, and one that has the photograpic capabilities of the 808 would suit. KarameaDave (15222)
1303535 2012-09-29 01:07:00 Because, when we travel I like to be able to have a phone, and one that has the photograpic capabilities of the 808 would suit.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks :)
Nick G (16709)
1303536 2012-09-29 09:32:00 www.h-online.com

Apparently the same exploit can be used to crash an iPhone
(under certain conditions)

securecoding.sudo.rm-f.org
KarameaDave (15222)
1303537 2012-09-29 12:03:00 Hahahaha that's fantastic! :D Chilling_Silence (9)
1303538 2012-09-29 17:47:00 So iphones can catch an android virus like zoonosis? Must be vaccination time, would hate to catch a dirty disease from an android. sam m (517)
1303539 2012-09-29 19:40:00 A novel bit of malware for Android.

news.softpedia.com
KarameaDave (15222)
1303540 2012-10-02 18:03:00 A weakness that can cause all the data stored on Android smartphone handsets to be erased has been found.

Websites tricked users into activating malicious code by clicking on-screen phone numbers, Ravi Borgaonkar, from the Technical University Berlin, said.

No Android could tell the difference between actual phone numbers and USSD codes recognized by handsets as instructions to re-set or wipe its memory card, he wrote in a blog post.

Android maker Google has issued a fix.

Mr Borgaonkar is urging Android phone owners to ensure they have the latest updates.

Some of the malware, which activates a factory re-set, appeared to target only Samsung devices, he added. And once a handset was wiped there was no way to restore the data.

But McAfee security expert Jimmy Shah said the bug was not particularly attractive to cybercriminals.

"There's no benefit to the attacker if they can't make money off it or they can't steal your data," he said.

"It's really not that useful."
SurferJoe46 (51)
1303541 2012-10-02 19:14:00 Yeah Google committed the fix to AOSP already back in June, pre-Jellybean, so anything running the latest Android-4.1 is guaranteed to be safe :) Chilling_Silence (9)
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