Android malware discovered super - Is Google's platform in danger?

Android malware has long been a very real but limited threat devices. These malicious software packages have been poorly coded, easy to spot, and even easier to remove. But a newly discovered trojan targeting Google's platform looks more like an advanced Windows virus malware than Android. It uses several previously unknown vulnerabilities in the mobile OS uses complex code obfuscation techniques and blocks attempts to uninstall.

Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered the trojan recently, and have named it Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a. This is not a very impressive name for what may be the most sophisticated piece of Android malware currently, as well as the prototype for a new generation of aggressive security around its mobile Trojans. From the moment Obad.a comes on a system, it is designed to avoid detection until it is too late.

The first major Android security hole Obad.a used refers to the processing of the AndroidManifest.xml file. Each Android app has a manifest file that tells the operating system about its structure and components. Obad.a's manifesto is wrong in a way that hides its intentions and provides for the installation.

Even if Obad.a gets a foothold on a system, it keeps most of its encrypted code to identify which make more difficult. The components are only decrypted when needed. For example, the addresses of the command and control servers are not decrypted until an Internet connection is checked.

Google bans face recognition applications on glass, low ceiling on the future of the device

In its current state, there are two main issues Google faces glass - utility, and privacy concerns. Google has decided on the latter, the prohibition of any facial recognition software to hit the device, which in turn, unfortunately, hinders the old.

Today, as we have said above, some see Google Glass as nothing more than a glorified video camera that you wear on your face. Can not connect to a data network on your own, so if you're walking down the street or living in a city where you take a subway to work, your face becomes very limited device - like the phone has . However, people seem to overlook glass limited applications either because they realize it is a new type of hardware constantly trying to find balance, or because it's a team that can carry on your face and look like a character Dragon Ball Z. What people do not seem to overlook, however, is how easy it supposedly is taking video creepshots or innocent victims and that you do not have to shake the phone to your address, if you are using Glass. Whether or not it take a picture of someone yelling "Okay, Crystal" and intensely staring at them is less visible than increasing your phone in your direction is a topic that has been beaten to death.

Snapping Creepshots not as twisted as glass can have, though. Provide a Terminator-style HUD that can recognize real world objects is where most of us see Google laptop to finish. In fact, his mother and may think that is what really makes Google Glass. Obviously, some kind of object or face recognition screen appears in a tiny staff could easily lead to a violation of privacy, so that instead of allowing everyone to hunt down John Connor by scanning the faces of the people in a crowd, Google has banned facial recognition applications on your device.