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securityevaluators.com - 10/28/2008
Exploiting Android
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Android phone. Welcome Charlie Miller, Mark Daniel, and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators identified and exploited a security vulnerability in the Android operating system. The Android operating system, developed by Google, is open source and has many rich features ...
source.android.com - 10/21/2008
Android is now available as open source (Android Open Source Project)
— source.android.com — Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of... the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project. You'll be hearing a lot ... (more) Android is now available as open source (Android Open ...

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Android Gets Exploited
DriverHeaven.net — ... Google's Android operating system for the T-Mobile G1 has a serious security vulnerability that allows malicious hackers to launch drive-by browser attacks, according to an alert from security research firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). ...

Google patches Android security hole
bit-tech.net News Feed — ... , the patch is for an issue with the on-board web browser which first came to light on the 20th of October. Embarrassingly for Google, this particular security hole was common knowledge quite some time ago – the flaw has already been fixed in the code for the open-source packages on which Android is based. The reason Android was vulnerable is because – for whatever reason – Google decided to ship out-of-date code with their flagship mobile handset. This has, of course, one singular advantage for the company: because the flaw has already been fixed, the work to repair the ...

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