Security flaws in Android smartphone apps revealed: Study

A flaw in commonly used applications on Android smartphones such as texting, messaging or microblogging could spread private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, a recent study has revealed.

A flaw in commonly used applications on Android smartphones such as texting, messaging or microblogging could spread private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, a recent study has revealed.

Xu has found that it is possible for an attacker to access and read personal information, including even 'private' messages from one of the popular text- messaging app, Handcent SMS that allows users to place some text messages in a private, password-protected inbox.

Weibo is a hugely popular microblog service described as the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. But, according to Xu and the researchers, it is possible for the malicious code to forge and post fraudulent messages.

The professor of computer science at the university Zhendong Su has said that his team has notified the app developers of the problems, but has not yet received a response.