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Fraud and Android Market? Who Knew?
The longer the economy continues its struggle to bounce, the more people will use illegal tactics to make money. One of the most notorious ways to do that is by stealing other people’s financial information. Hackers and online thieves have been doing that for years, so it’s nothing new. In fact, if your computer is not protected, you may leave yourself open to such attacks. But that’s not the only place you need to be worried about. It seems your Android phone can be susceptible to such attacks as well. In fact, you wouldn’t even be able to call it an “attack” when you are the one installing that banking app on your phone.
It seems a few rogue developers have developed Android applications that pretend to help you manage your financial information but do the opposite. It’s still not known what these apps have done, but according to F-Secure, it can’t be anything good:
Since the applications were not developed or authorised by the banks themselves, they could not do real online banking from the Android device. Apparently they only opened the web interface of the online bank for the user. On the other hand, they could have stolen user credentials
So here is the fun part. It seems an app developer called Droid09 developed these apps and then disappeared all of a sudden. Who knew that would happen! These days people are getting more comfortable with sharing their personal data with these apps. There is nothing wrong with that as long as you know whose app you are using. It’s simply embarrassing to install an app and thinking it’s authorized by your bank without even checking.
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5 Cool Android Applications for Bloggers
There are plenty of mobile owners that blog on the go these days. That would have been impossible a few years ago, but with all the technology available to us bloggers, there is no excuse not to blog on the go. It’s true that iPhone has the edge in the application department (for bloggers), but Android does have a few bright blogging applications as well. If you are looking for apps that help you become more productive as a blogger, here are 5 android apps you should try:
Astrid Task/Todo List: a free app that lets you manage your daily tasks and stay on the right track at all times. If you rely on To Do lists to get things done on time, this app comes in handy.
Scan2PDF Mobile: uses your phone’s camera to convert one or more of your pages into a PDF. An easy way to use your camera to back up your notes and store them digitally.
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