
LAS VEGAS, KOMPAS.com - Although based on Linux, known recalcitrant in security affairs, the Android platform can still be cracked as well. Two digital security expert demonstrated the software to break into the Android-based smartphone for the first time in the Defcon conference in Las Vegas last week.
"It was not that difficult to do," says Nicholas Percoco, head of the Spider Labs, who along with his colleagues released the tools at the annual conference of hackers, on Friday (30/07/2010). He said that a weakness in Android allow others to infiltrate to read SMS and email users.
Percoco said it took him about two weeks to create...