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It’s possible, It’s risky, It’s pointless. If you really want to hack your own device, give it a try!
Compare android devices to ios devices in terms of security, ios devices has better security features than android devices. Yet jailbreakers such as Jay Freeman and others managed to exploit the mach kernel. Android, too, has specific security features but it has experienced several vulnerabilities.
This simply means that no matter the number of security features implemented by security engineers, there is always a way to by-pass security measures on smart devices. This post reveals a couple of ways users could make their android devices vulnerable.
- Downloading apps from external store:
A user may be forced to download an android app from external stores instead of google play store because of app restriction to certain countries, or users discovered the same app being sold for $100 is hosted on another third-party store for free. Usually app on third-party app stores are full of malicious apps. In addition, google play store is not safe.
2. Debuggable apps on your devices:
Debbugable apps allows attackers, bug hunters, or anybody interested in system-level bugs to leverage attacks on applications on your devices to get access to your phones. Some developers forget to specify debugging for their android applications as false in the androidmanifest file . Thus, it allows malicious users to implement run-time manipulation against classes, methods, and variables in the source code of an android application via java debug wire protocol.
3. Apps with critical permissions on your devices:
In order for certain apps to operate well on your devices, you need to accept permissions it asks for. Some apps ask for the permission to read and write to SDCARD STORAGE, access PHONE STATE, modify and delete accounts, access database files in SQL Lite folder and access CONTACTS on your device.
Usually, apps asking for critical permission or protection-level permission do not have strong security features in place. Malicious apps could leverage on these apps to extract data from your SDCARD STORAGE, delete contacts on your devices and so on. There are several ways of making your android device vulnerable.
But the above ones could happen to you unknowingly because it requires technical acumen. However, ordinary users can rely kaspersky mobile antivirus to detect malicious apps.
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