A security researcher plans to show off just such an attack at next week’s Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas. Neil Daswani, chief technology officer for Web security firm Dasient, will show off a proof-of-concept attack. The attack opens up a channel through which Daswan exploits a vulnerability in Skype to read information from the application and eavesdrop on chat conversations. A survey of 10,000 Android Marketplace apps found that about 800 sent a device identifier off to remote Internet servers.”]
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