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Pre-installed malware turns up on new phones |
March 05, 2014
David Jevans, CTO and founder of Marble Security, recently received some bad feedback from a potential customer testing his company’s product, which helps organizations manage and secure their mobile devices.“They basically said ‘Your stuff doesn’t work’,” Jevans said. “It thinks Netflix is malicious.”Marble Security performs static code analysis of Android and iOS applications, which shows what the code is supposed to do. Apps are also run through an emulator with instrumentation that allows analysts to get a larger view of how an application performs. They also check an app’s network traffic to see if it is communicating with known malicious servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104760/preinstalled-malware-turns-up-on-new-phones.html#tk.rss_all
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