What you cal a backdor in Android, I suppose that involves any kind of data sending from de device or the intrusion in the phone throug internet. This tipical trojan actions in the application needs to be accepted by the user at the momment of the instalation of the application. You can see the android permisions here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html When a user see that the application is asking for this permissions, he should think twice before continuing the insaltation of the application. http://www.androidtapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Comparison-of-Android-App-Permissions-of-Popular-Backgrounds-App-versus-Jackeey-Wallpaper-Apps.jpg If you see some simple game trying to acces SMS data or Personal information or contact list and network access you have to susppect about it. You can read more about the first tries of this here: - "First" trojan disguised as media player: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20013222-245.html - Defcon 18 Rootkit: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Trustwave-Spiderlabs/DEFCON-18-Trustwave-Spiderlabs-Android-Rootkit.pdf On 24 ago, 16:37, Eric Dorman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been investigating the Android Developer Guide and while I was > looking through it I had an idea that maybe there is a possible > security flaw that applications could exploit called a backdoor. > > I have not looked into this a lot,but I was just wondering if it is > possible that an attacker could run this type of security flaw inside > his app on an Android powered device? > > However sandboxing is a good security technique to have in the Android > OS so this security flaw is probably rather low. > > Thanks & God Bless, > Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
