http://www.zdnet.com/whats-making-your-android-insecure-blame-those-free-apps-you-never-asked-for-7000022867/
By Liam Tung
Security
ZDNet News
November 6, 2013
Android smartphone makers are not only slow to release security patches to
end users, they're are also stuffing their phones with buggy software in
the name of differentiation.
Vendor efforts to customise Android phones are unnecessarily introducing a
host of potential security issues that don't seem to be improving over
time, according to new research by the Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University.
The researchers looked at pre-installed apps across two generations of
flagship phones from Google, HTC, Samsung, LG, and Sony, querying the
number of pre-installed apps, which permissions they have, and whether
they contain any vulnerabilities.
The 10 devices studied were Google's Nexus S and Nexus 4, HTC's Wildfire S
and One X, Samsung's Galaxy S2 and S3, Sony's Xpreia Arc S and Xperia SL,
and LG's Optimus P350 and P8880.
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