There’s good news for any owners of Android devices worried about the recently announced security vulnerability that could allow allow unauthorised parties to snoop on your Google Calendar and Contacts information.
Google has already started rolling out a fix!
The issue had already been fixed in Android 2.3.4 (codenamed Gingerbread), but as we mentioned earlier this week over 99% of Android users are running earlier versions of the operating system.
Google has started to implement a server-side patch that addresses the issue for all versions of the Android OS. The great news is that it doesn’t require a software update on the Android devices themselves – meaning the fix is automatic and worldwide. Effectively this is a silent fix.
The fix addresses a vulnerability with the use of authTokens for Google’s Calendar and Contacts apps discovered by researchers at Germany’s University of…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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