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The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is backing research designed to improve detection of “collusion” between malicious apps on the Android platform. Collusion attacks use malicious apps with different levels of permissions to bypass Android access controls. For example, one app might request …

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  1. Trainee grumpy old ****
    WTF?

    McAfee really?

    Given that McAfee's best known product is memorable for its ability to reduce a perfectly normal PC to a crawl such that there is little to differentiate it from malware would you really want something from them on your phone?

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