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Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 20 2015, @04:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-just-for-windows-anymore dept.

Hairyfeet writes:

Proving that the more complex the OS, the easier it is to hack, and how root really isn't required to attack a device a malicious app bypassed Ubuntu Phone security checks to give the attacker full control over the phone.

Luckily only 15 people are known to have downloaded the app but one has to wonder if Ubuntu Phone is already being targeted so successfully in its infancy what does that bode when its a more juicy target?

An educated guess for the unreleased sales statistics can be found on Riccardo Padovani's blog.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by present_arms on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:44AM

    by present_arms (4392) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @11:44AM (#252687) Homepage Journal

    That's actually Ubuntus fault as sudo can indeed be made to have a separate password than that used by a user, and yes it's stupid to allow an elevated application use the same password as the user, as obviously if you crack the users password you basically have root permissions, It's one of the reasons I'll never have ubuntu or their offshoots on my machine :)

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