1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info 131
An anonymous reader writes "Not a month goes by without security researchers finding new malicious apps on Google Play. According to BitDefender, more than one percent of 420,000+ analyzed apps offered on Google's official Android store are repackaged versions of legitimate apps. In the long run, their existence hurts the users, the legitimate developers, and Google's reputation in general. Google Play has recently surpassed the one million mark when it comes to the apps it offers, and the researchers have analyzed a good chunk of the total in order to discover just how many are hiding their true nature."
F-Droid, FTW (Score:5, Informative)
F-Droid is the open source store. Pleanty of good apps there that do just about anything you'd need an app to do, for free as in beer and free as in speach.
https://f-droid.org/ [f-droid.org]
What is being added (Score:5, Informative)
Link to the original article (Score:4, Informative)
Re:How many downloads? (Score:4, Informative)
According to FDroid, Droidwall got abandoned, forked and renamed to AFWall+.
Re:Irrelevant (Score:4, Informative)
iOS can be argued to be less secure than Android because the entire OS depends on the jail mechanism.
What does this sentence mean? From context it looks like you're saying the only form of security on iOS is Apple's App Store approval system, but that's obviously false. Every app is sandboxed (no access to the system or other apps) and must request specific permission for privileged data (location/contacts/photos/calendars/etc.).