TaintDroid reveals security threat from app downloads

By Eric Doyle on Oct 4, 2010 10:01AM

Android free apps display some inappropriate behaviour.

Free Android apps could pose a business threat as a new study has shown that quite a few apps transfer substantial amounts of personal data to third-parties. TaintDroid, a proof-of-concept tool, monitored the behaviour of 30 popular Android applications. The research team from Intel Labs, Duke ...

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