Wednesday Mobile Roundup: Security Risks, Asia, Funding, & More

Here’s what we are reading this morning:

99% of Android Users At Risk to Data Theft — Apparently 99 percent of Google Android users are vulnerable to data theft of information such as passwords, calendars, credit information, and so on. Posted by The Register, researchers at Germany’s University of Ulm, have discovered improper implementation of an authentication protocol called ClientLogin on Android versions 2.3.3 and below.  Basically, when users log in to something such as Facebook, an “authentication token” is retrieved, but can be used for up to 14 days after; exploitable by hackers.

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