The offence : identity stealing . The location : the Android Market . The artillery : a free “ banking ” app . The example : you should be terrified at all time , of all things , even if Google says you should n’t be .
Downloading your bank ’s roving app seemed like a surefire room to obviate stumbling into a phishing cozenage . It was the prudent affair to do ! Until this workweek , when malicious software masquerading as an prescribed First Tech Credit Union banking app squirm its way into the Android Market . Of course , when I say “ twist ” I really mean “ strode more or less undisturbed , ” because that ’s what you do in the Android securities industry — approvals take hour , not days , and the review process seems to be cursory , at best .
This does n’t highlight a problem so much as a tradeoff : do you want your primary app resource to be mostly unfiltered and non - exclusive , so no party can tell you what you could or ca n’t download , but where you ’re possibly exposed to scam apps like this ? Or do you require to be held in the warm , protective breast of a multination corporation , guarded by its app approval minion , who go over every app with a fine - tooth comb ?
Either way , its worth noting that this is only passably significative of a helplessness in the Android Market conception , because it should n’t have happened — they theoretically test for malicious apps . But it did , so at the very least be more scared careful . [ First Tech Credit UnionviaAndroidGuys ]
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