WHAT NOT TO MALWARE

Great news for mobile ‘smart’ phone users; a new app to hit the shelves from Google Inc. records all your calls and has minimum security protection for any prying hackers out there. (See News of the World). Security researcher Dinesh Venkatesan described it as “a trojan piece of malware that spies on users’ conversations”. The fear is the files can be easily accessed by hackers.

The app saves details of all incoming/outgoing calls and call duration. The advanced version records calls in a full speech-recording format. The application stores the recordings on the phone’s memory.

Before it is downloaded the user has to give their permission to ‘intercept outgoing calls, read phone status and identity’ but no mention is made that whole calls are actually recorded – it must be buried in that really small, almost-invisible-to-the-naked-eye print that no one ever reads. Trying downloading the ‘Sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare’ app... or iTune in, i-turn off and iDrop off the map...