Researchers Find Methods For Bypassing Google's Bouncer Android Security 79
Trailrunner7 writes "Google's Android platform has become the most popular mobile operating system both among consumers and malware writers, and the company earlier this year introduced the Bouncer system to look for malicious apps in the Google Play market. Bouncer, which checks for malicious apps and known malware, is a good first step, but as new work from researchers Jon Oberheide and Charlie Miller shows, it can be bypassed quite easily and in ways that will be difficult for Google to address in the long term. Oberheide and Miller, both well-known for their work on mobile security, went into their research without much detailed knowledge of how the Bouncer system works. Google has said little publicly about its capabilities, preferring not to give attackers any insights into the system's inner workings. So Oberheide and Miller looked at it as a challenge, an exercise to see how much they could deduce about Bouncer from the outside, and, as it turns out, the inside."
Re:Mobile Security (Score:4, Informative)
How?
We have no trouble using android phones with activesync and enforcing lockscreens. The only issue is that a rooted android phone, just like a jailbroken iphone can ignore the enforced lockscreen.
Blackberry sucks, BES is terrible and I am glad to see them go.
people said same thing about PCs in 1982 (Score:4, Informative)
"boy they are nice, but it sure is easier for administrators to have a mainframe or at least a bunch of diskless workstations with a Novell box"