Researchers Beat Up Google's Bouncer

JMH · Jun 25, 2012

Bouncer, the gatekeeper for the Android app store, looks ready for a rough adolescence. Two groups of security researchers have probed the security service for weaknesses and have had few problems bypassing it.

Nicholas Percoco and Sean Schulte, both of security firm Trustwave, submitted increasingly malicious versions of an Android application to Google Play. Each variant of the application was scanned by Bouncer, Google's security-checking application, and it failed to flag them as malicious, the two security researcher plan to report at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas next month.

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Researchers Beat Up Google's Bouncer

JMH

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