Android now available for the official application of the most popular social network dedicated to reading and readers, aNobii.
The application, free download from the Market a couple of days, you access to your user profile aNobii up, displaying their books, or find new ones, possibly using the bar code to add the book with a simple photo. Naturally present in each title, reviews and comments users and expert critics. You can also update your status and list of books read or that you are reading.
aNobii is Android 2.1 compatible or higher, and is very good news, is already localized in Italian, In addition to English, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Discovered vulnerability in the web browser Froyo Android 2.2 version and earlier that would steal files from the terminal and especially those stored on the SD card transparently to the user. The file system is FAT32 SD cards, so no property licensing.
Thomas Cannon, the security specialist who discovered the vulnerability, reports that through a page HTML and Javascript specially designed , an attacker could access a limited number of files stored in the terminal. The core of the problem is that Android’s browser to the versions mentioned, does not inform the user downloads a file HTML .
In the attack, could be accessed the file system proc and thus the kernel version and other configuration parameters used as basis for further attacks. In addition, data could be obtained browser type history , bookmarks , cookies session and saved passwords.
The SD card access allows the theft of files of all types : text, pictures or video, without the terminal owner’s awareness of the action. At the time of this writing, there is no official solution to the problem , so the only alternative is to use a different browser, eg Opera Mini , Firefox , Skyfire or any other of your choice.