Trojan app bypasses Android security procedures

A mobile security expert has used the high-profile mobile game Angry Birds to demonstrate some gaping security holes in the Android Market. Even though the game had nothing to do with the actual Angry Birds game and was filled with a trojan virus, he had no trouble getting it onto the digital app store.

Luckily, though, no Androids were harmed in the making of this hacked Angry Birds level. It was in fact only a demo created by the chieft technical officer of security company Scio Security, Jon Oberheide.

Because the Android Market is an open platform an extremely easy to get accepted into, Oberheide was able to put up an app that disguised itself as being an official Angry Birds app.

The app, a trojan, was able to bypass security procedures on Android to gain access to all sorts of data on any phone it would have been installed on. But because it was just an app to prove a point, Google pulled it from the Market after a few hours.

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