- Anton Piatek email: <a href="mailto:anton@piatek.co.uk">anton@piatek.co.uk</a> blog/photos: http:// <a href="http://www.strangeparty.com">www.strangeparty.com</a> pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// <a href="http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc">www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc</a>) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. <div class="gmail_quote">On 3 Mar 2011 20:34, "Vince Marsters" <<a href="mailto:vince@marsters.co.uk">vince@marsters.co.uk</a>> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:24 +0000, Barry Titterton wrote: >> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923</a> >> >> They sound more like trojans than viruses to my untrained ear. >> I expect the same would apply to any linux system if you installed a bad >> software package; the malicious code would then be free to do what it >> liked. Though it does say towards the end of the article that Google has >> closed the vulnerabilities that the code was exploiting. >> >> The article also quoted Trend Micro having a swipe at Open Source saying >> that it was "a very attractive criminal playground". >> >> Would the experts like to comment on my understanding of this, or on >> security in general? > > They forgot (or I am going blind and missed it) that it was less than 5 > minutes after Google were alerted till the apps were removed from the > store. Not bad going really > > As you said, they were boobytrapped with a trojan which was capable of > sending loads of personal data and also downloading other malicious > content. > > Vince > > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div>