New Android Bug Allows Hackers To Make Unauthorized Calls

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A virus discovered late last year allows hackers to take over an Android phone, initiate unauthorized phone calls, disrupt ongoing calls and infiltrate other secure areas of the cell phone to take other rogue actions.

New Android Bug Allows Hackers To Make Unauthorized Calls

Android bug reported to Google

According to a report in ComputerWorld the vulnerability was discovered and subsequently reported to Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) by researchers from Berlin-based security consultancy firm Curesec.  The researchers believe the virus was first introduced...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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