Hacking Androids for Profit

he growing popularity of smart phones has generated a predictable surge in security research around mobile platforms and this year’s Black Hat agenda contains quite a few good presentations.

This talk, by Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay, puts Android under the microscope with a promise to reveal new threats to Android Apps and discuss known and unknown weaknesses in the Android OS and Android Market.

The researchers will discuss the inner working of Android apps and the risks any user faces when installing and using apps from the marketplace.