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HTC new Android phones keep security vulnerabilities may reveal a large number of private information-HTC,Android phone, security vulnerabilities, disclosure of private information

Recently, foreign media discovered recently introduced a variety of HTC Android smart phone, including Thunderbolt, EVO 3D, EVO 4G and so there is a significant security vulnerability that can lead to user's phone number, e-mail, global positioning system (GPS) positioning and message content are extremely vulnerable to leakage.
According to the report, which is due shortly before the latest release of HTC's tools to modify registration information leading to the emergence of this security flaw.
Android Police reported that once the user of a HTC application requires access to the Internet and confirmed, the application may have leaked information about the user, such user's personal information will include:
1, the user account list, including e-mail, recently used the network synchronization as well as Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning, which also includes a small amount of historical location information;
2, mobile communications records in the phone number;
3, the short message information, including phone number and an encrypted text message (is not known whether the encrypted message is decrypted, but can be decrypted higher risk);
4, the system records (including kernel / dmesg and the app / logcat), that is, all the user's mobile phone applications running records, which is likely to include e-mail address, telephone number and other relevant personal information.
In general, Android.permission.INTERNET will only provide access to user applications permission to connect the Internet, but do not support their access to the user's private files. Obviously, the current HTC fixes this major security hole the only way to update the patch should be released immediately, unless the user decided to manually delete the record the user behavior \"APK\" file. However, because most users are not familiar with how Root cell phone, so manually delete the \"APK\" file is not a safe choice. So Android Police now give users advice: HTC released the official patches, users never download any suspicious applications, especially the recent release of the latest applications.